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Al Murray - Wikipedia. Al Murray. Murray as "The Pub Landlord" in 2. Born(1. 96. 8- 0.

May 1. 96. 8 (age 4. Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, England. Medium. Stand- up, television, radio. Nationality British. Alma mater. St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Years active. 19.

Genres. Parody, Political satire, Surreal humour, Character comedy, Musical comedy, Observational comedy, Blue comedy. Subject(s)British culture, British politics, French culture, Gender stereotypes, Family, Human interaction, World history, Current events.

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The Pub Landlord; Al Murray's Happy Hour; Time Gentlemen Please; Multiple Personality Disorder; Fact Hunt; etc. Websitewww. thepublandlord. Alastair James Hay "Al" Murray (born 1. May 1. 96. 8), is an Englishcomedian and TV personality well known for his stand- uppersona and quick repartee.

His best- known character is "The Pub Landlord", a xenophobic publican. In 2. 00. 3, Murray was listed in The Observer as one of the 5. British comedy.[1] In 2. Channel 4's 1. 00 Greatest Stand- Ups. Early life and family background[edit]Murray was born at 4. High Street South, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, only son of Lieut- Col. Ingram Bernard Hay Murray (a great- great- great- great- grandson of John, 3rd Duke of Atholl, who married Charlotte, Baroness Strange), by his wife Juliet Anne Thackeray, née Ritchie (a great- great- granddaughter of the celebrated novelist William Makepeace Thackeray).[2] His grandfather, the former British ambassador.

Sir Ralph Murray,[3] was from Scottish aristocracy and married into the Kuenberg family, Imperial Counts,[4] of the Holy Roman Empire. His patrilineal great- great- grandfather, Dr George Murray, was Bishop of Rochester,[5] while Sir Edward Leigh MP is his third cousin.[6] Al Murray is in remainder both to English and Scottishpeerage titles, including the barony of Strange and the dukedom of Atholl.[7]Murray was educated at Bedford School, where he was head boy,[8] and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Modern History.[9]At Oxford he performed in the comedy group the Oxford Revue, in a show directed by Stewart Lee, later an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall.[1. Personal life and campaigning[edit]Murray married Amber Hargreaves in 2. The couple, who have two daughters, Scarlett and Willow, separated in 2. Murray is a keen cricket fan,[1. England cricket team before their departure for the 2.

Ashes series.[1. 3]Murray, together with Stephen Fry, supported Paul Chambers' High Court appeals after Chambers had been arrested for contravening the Communications Act 2. An appeal against Chambers' conviction was successful.[1. In August 2. 01. 4, Murray was one of 2.

The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run- up to September's referendum on that issue.[1. Murray was awarded an honorary degree (Hon MA) by the University of Bedfordshire in 2. Murray was awarded an honorary degree (Hon MA) by the University of Wolverhampton in 2. Career in entertainment[edit]Murray started out touring with fellow comedians including Harry Hill and Frank Skinner. He won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1. He started out with an act that involved sound- effect impressions, including guns, animals and a car boot.

With this act he supported Jim Tavaré in Leeds in Winter 1. In 1. 99. 4–9. 5, he was the drummer in the band Evangelista,[1. Stewart Lee's and Simon Munnery's experimental Cluub Zarathustra in London.[1. Film maker Martin Pickles made a short film about the band in 2. At this time the lead singer Reid described Murray as "he's still not a household name, but anyone who's into comedy knows who Al Murray is".[2.

The Pub Landlord[edit]This character professes an apparent particular animosity towards Germans and the French; he will challenge the audience to name any country in the world before producing some plausible instance of Britain bettering it. The character also has a great love for the British 1. Queen, often getting musician(s) on his show to perform one of Queen's tunes in their own style. The character first appeared in 1.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in the show "Pub Internationale", with Harry Hill[1. Matthew Bradstock- Smith (who played "Little Alan" as well as the keyboards in Hill's Edinburgh, radio and TV shows). The show featured the "Pub Band", with Murray playing drums and compering.

After trying out a character deemed not to have worked, at the opening show Murray suggested saying that the compere had not made it to the show and that the barman in the venue, the Pleasance Cabaret Bar, had offered to fill in. At the Edinburgh Festival,[2. Murray came up with "The Pub Landlord".[2. Murray then made his first television appearances on Hill's TV show playing his big brother Alan ("If it's too hard, I can't understand it!"), and subsequently featured in a short film, Pub Fiction (1.

Murray's theatre show in "Pub Landlord" character My Gaff, My Rules was short- listed for a Laurence Olivier Award in 2. Time Gentlemen Please, as well as a number of other television appearances, including the An Audience with..

Subsequent theatre tours were: .. And A Glass of White Wine for the Lady (another catchphrase) and Giving it Both Barrels. The Pub Landlord has hosted several television programmes including Fact Hunt, named after the fictional quiz machine of the same name from Time Gentlemen Please,[2. BBC One show Live at the Apollo and UKTV channel Dave's Compete for the Meat, which is co- hosted by Zöe Salmon, with voice- overs from Jim Rosenthal. His chat show. Al Murray's Happy Hour began airing 1. January 2. 00. 7 on ITV.[2.

The show has won a British Comedy Award for "Best New Entertainment Comedy".[2. Murray was the headliner of a July 2. The Good Girl Full Movie Online Free. Michael Mc. Intyre's Comedy Roadshow, filmed at the Brighton Dome.[2. From January 2. 00.

Murray filled in for Tim Lovejoy on Virgin Radio on Sunday afternoons, in character as "The Pub Landlord", and broadcast his final show on 2. December 2. 00. 6.[2. Murray has twice appeared in the An Audience with..

In 2. 00. 5, he recorded An Audience with Al Murray for the ITV network, and this was shown on 1. March of that year; and on 2. October 2. 00. 7 Another Audience with Al Murray was broadcast, by the same TV channel.[2. Murray has written four books in his Pub Landlord guise: The Pub Landlord's Book Of British Common Sense, The Pub Landlord's Think Yourself British, The Pub Landlord's Great British Quiz Book, and Let's Re- Great Britain. Other work[edit]As a teenager, Murray was a drummer in the "big band" at Bedford School,[3. The Masque Of The Red Death Full Movie In English. Bedfordshire County Youth Orchestra.[3.

He played drums on the music for "The Pub Landlord" TV series and during an appearance on "Happy Hour" by Phil Collins they performed a duet. He also plays the drums for the rock cover band T- 3. Download Festival in 2.

In 2. 00. 3, Murray appeared on an episode of the BBC's Time Commanders alongside Kate Silverton, Raji James and Ricky Groves. In 2. 00. 4, Murray appeared as a contestant in the first series of Hell's Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay's cookery based reality show on ITV, and in 2. Comic Relief Does Fame Academy on BBC One.[3. Murray presented Al Murray's Road to Berlin on the Discovery Channel.

This was a series about the last phase of the Second World War, taking him from the beaches of Normandy, through Arnhem and up the Rhine, ending in Berlin. In the series he drove around in a restored Willys Jeep, and interviewed survivors from both sides of the war.