Al Murray
After studying History at Oxford and rubbing shoulders with the likes of Stewart Lee, Ben Moor and Richard Herring in the Oxford Revue, Murray wrote for Week Ending and Spitting Image, and started to work as a solo act.
He supported Frank Skinner on his world tour of 1992, taking his act (based around sound effects) with him, but soon became bored with the rigidity of his material. Fortunately, in the same year, he met Harry Hill at a Radio 4 commissioning meeting.
After subsequently performing stand up with Murray at the Edinburgh Festival, Hill asked him to come up with an act for his Pub Internationale show.
In 1994, Murray created the Pub Landlord and success quickly followed. The loud mouthed opinions of this unique comedy character were laughed at by Comedy audiences up and down Britain. He appeared as Harry Hill’s big brother Alan in The Harry Hill Show from 1997-2000.
Murray became a positive feature at The Edinburgh festival with successful show year after year. He was nominated for three Perrier Awards before after a wrangle as to whether he was ‘too famous’ to win it, Murray finally won the converted Award with a show based around the Pub Landlord character in 1999. This led to stage shows including And A Glass Of White Wine For The Lady, My Gaff, My Rules and Who Dares Wins.
He also completed the television series ‘Time, Gentlemen, Please’. He also featured on The Live Floor Show in 2003 and was a celebrity guest / chef in the reality ‘Hells Kitchen’ (Gordon Ramsey) 2004.
The success of an ‘Audience with Al Murray’ 2005 firmly set him on course to national notoriety.
Al is a fantastic live performer and with his character of the pub landlord tours the country in his one man show as well as finding time to perform at the many corporate functions he is offered.
He supported Frank Skinner on his world tour of 1992, taking his act (based around sound effects) with him, but soon became bored with the rigidity of his material. Fortunately, in the same year, he met Harry Hill at a Radio 4 commissioning meeting.
After subsequently performing stand up with Murray at the Edinburgh Festival, Hill asked him to come up with an act for his Pub Internationale show.
In 1994, Murray created the Pub Landlord and success quickly followed. The loud mouthed opinions of this unique comedy character were laughed at by Comedy audiences up and down Britain. He appeared as Harry Hill’s big brother Alan in The Harry Hill Show from 1997-2000.
Murray became a positive feature at The Edinburgh festival with successful show year after year. He was nominated for three Perrier Awards before after a wrangle as to whether he was ‘too famous’ to win it, Murray finally won the converted Award with a show based around the Pub Landlord character in 1999. This led to stage shows including And A Glass Of White Wine For The Lady, My Gaff, My Rules and Who Dares Wins.
He also completed the television series ‘Time, Gentlemen, Please’. He also featured on The Live Floor Show in 2003 and was a celebrity guest / chef in the reality ‘Hells Kitchen’ (Gordon Ramsey) 2004.
The success of an ‘Audience with Al Murray’ 2005 firmly set him on course to national notoriety.
Al is a fantastic live performer and with his character of the pub landlord tours the country in his one man show as well as finding time to perform at the many corporate functions he is offered.