Al Murray

Heard the one about Al Murray's split personality?

As his offensive Pub Landlord alter ego tours the UK, the Oxbridge thinker behind him is preparing to guest-edit Today.

Al Murray to guest edit Radio 4 Today show

Comedian Al Murray and writer Benjamin Zephaniah are to guest edit BBC Radio 4's Today over the festive period.

DVD review: Al Murray - The Only Way Is Epic

When it comes to The Pub Landlord, you're never quite sure what you're laughing at.

Leaflet laws are killing comedy, say campaigners

Comedian Al Murray is backing a change in the law to prevent councils from charging hundreds of pounds for the right to hand out flyers.

Pub Landlord Al Murray is your host in the first of a new series of the stand-up show, and after a whirlwind bus-top tour of London - "Covent Garden! Not a single nun, not a single flower, a complete lie" - he takes to the stage in Shepherd's Bush, celebrating the Jubilee, Pippa Middleton's rear and taking the mickey out of the poor souls in the front row. Also on stage: Richard Herring deconstructs children's hand signals, while Andy Zaltzman transcribes his involvement in his child's birth.

The fourth series of this reliably funny stand-up comedy show opens with a bang tonight, as Al Murray's Pub Landlord embarks on an open-top tour of the capital. "The whole world looks to London," he says proudly, "and then sends its slack-jawed teenagers to chain-smoke and shoplift in the Trocadero." The tone set, Murray proceeds to give a fine, typically provocative performance in front of a paying crowd at the Shepherds Bush Empire before introducing support performances from Richard Herring and Andy Zaltzman.

How Harry Hill got me out of bed, by Al Murray

Everyone needs a guiding light to cajole, advise and encourage. Al Murray on Harry Hill, the man who inspired him to become 'The Pub Landlord'.

Al Murray: 'Comedy's my living... how did that happen?'

We're all doomed, says the surprisingly well-spoken comedian, who's just as livid as his Pub Landlord alter ego about our 'preposterous' politicians. Nick Duerden meets Al Murray.

Al Murrary: the Pub Landlord and me

Al Murray tells the story of his 20-year relationship with his hilariously awful alter-ego, the Pub Landlord.

Al Murray mocks Blur at Q Awards

All eyes were on the guests at yesterday's Q Awards, but host Al Murray also took some of the limelight, poking fun at Blur's failure to tell fans what they had planned for the future.