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Al Murray to host pub quiz show on Quest
Al Murray is to host Al Murray's Great British Pub Quiz, a new series for TV channel Quest. A total of 21 hour-long episodes are being made.
British Comedy Guide, 7th November 2018Al Murray announces 2019 tour
Al Murray is to tour the UK in 2019 with new show Landlord of Hope and Glory.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd October 2018Al Murray reveals daughter has hemiplegia
Al Murray has revealed his daughter's bravery growing up with hemiplegia, and he admitted both he and ex-wife Amber Hargreaves are "very proud of her",
Female First, 6th September 2018Al Murray to pilot pub quiz format for TV
Al Murray is working on Al Murray's Pub Quiz, a new TV pilot idea in which he hosts a quiz.
British Comedy Guide, 25th June 2018Al Murray doesn't care how people react to Landlord
It's the question that's dogged Al Murray throughout his comedy career. Is his Pub Landlord character lionised by the very small-minded Little Englanders he seeks to parody? And it's a question he has a very simple answer to: 'I don't care.'
Chortle, 17th June 2018With his usual publican threads enhanced by a festive sparkly belt buckle, Al Murray's thundering landlord hosts easily the most entertaining ITV Christmas special set in a fake East End pub since Chas and Dave's boozy knees-up in 1982. The boisterous audience of civilians and C-list celebs includes Love Island's Marcel and Georgia, East 17's Tony Mortimer and cheeky Liam from Bake Off, while Richard E Grant cameos as a sad-sack Santa.
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 22nd December 2017Al Murray's Make Christmas Great Again review
A few years ago, the Pub Landlord's xenophobic conceit seemed to be wearing thin. In the light of recent politics, he seems fresh and even prescient. The effect is unsettling: in the laughs and cheers there are traces of the emotions he is ostensibly subverting. Is he teasing those who mock the French? Or us, the crowd who laugh slightly too loudly when he mocks the French? It's no coincidence that in the best moments last night, as Murray claimed that Christmas was a British creation, he brought to mind other boisterous populists on both sides of the Atlantic.
Ed Cumming, The Telegraph, 22nd December 2017Al Murray interview
Al Murray on making comedy out of Brexit and cooking Christmas dinner in the back garden.
Teddy Jamieson, The Herald, 17th December 2017Al Murray: I'm amazed nobody's punched me in the face
There's a single moment's silence during my breakfast with Al Murray - and that's as we both ponder why nobody has ever punched him in the face. "I'm amazed it hasn't happened," he concludes blithely.
Celia Walden, The Telegraph, 17th December 2017Me and my motor: Al Murray
The touring comic prefers reliability to speed.
Danny Scott, The Sunday Times: Driving, 12th December 2017