Al Murray

Alastair James Hay Murray born 10 May 1968 is an English comedian After graduating from the University of Oxford Murrays comedy career began by working with Harry Hill for BBC Radio 4 He regularly performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before launching his Pub Landlord persona This led to the Sky One sitcom Time Gentlemen Please and the chat show Al Murrays Happy Hour for ITV In 2003 Murray was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy and in 2007 he was voted the 16th greatest standup comic on Channel 4s 100 Greatest StandUps He continues to perform as a standup and is a regular on British TV and radio Murrays principal character in performance is an English publican with conservative values and an animosity towards Germans and the French he challenges audience members to name any country before producing some plausible instance of Britain bettering it The character has a great love of the British 1970s rock band Queen often getting musicians on his show to perform one of Queens tunes in their own style He has described his persona as a knowall knownothing blowhard who knows the answer to every question even though he hasnt been asked any of them Description above from the Wikipedia article Al Murray licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia