Get the beards in, lads

Lockdown may have produced some bonkers barnets - but it's also seen a growth in bushy and barmy beards.

Here, Pub Landlord comedian Al Murray writes on the joy of whiskers.

Review - Just the Tonic's Working from Home

Review of Al Murray, Seann Walsh and Matt Forde among others.

TV preview - Comedians: Home Alone

Following E4's Remote Comedy From The Paddock the BBC launches with their own self-shot lockdown rapidfire sketch show. And on the basis of the first episodes - not that this is a competition - the BBC has the edge.

Al Murray on WWII-coronavirus parallels

We speak to Al Murray and historian James Holland - who together present the weekly World War Two podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk - and start by asking what parallels could be drawn between what the world went through during the war and our current coronavirus reality.

A comedian walks into a coronavirus crisis...

For the nation's stand-up comics, jokes about Covid-19 are being delivered through gritted teeth -- for an industry that was the first gig economy, the total shutdown of most comedy venues means the nation's gagsters are short of cash and short of an audience.

12 Days of Christmas Specials 6: Harry Hill's Sleigh Ride

This special is a particularly joyful episode -from the continuing fantasies about sild. 'Hmmm lovely sild...' to what surely must be the definitive version of Bing and Bowie's Little Drummer Boy, performed by Harry and Burt Kwouk themselves.

Al Murray on not wanting to retire the Pub Landlord

Al Murray has said he would not retire his Pub Landlord alter-ego because he would "get in a right tangle" if he had to be himself on stage.

Al Murray: my nephew needs a miracle

My nephew Finley is six. He is, I think, like a lot of six-year-old boys, he likes trains and tanks and planes, he's into playing football and swimming, and he's almost completely beguiled by video games. So far so normal. He is, however, unlucky enough to be one of the 12 children each year to suffer from juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML).

Al Murray on the sensitivity of conservatives

There is a pervasive idea in society right now that people on the left are overtly sensitive, something which has seen them labelled 'snowflakes' by people on the right. But is this an accurate portrayal of the landscape? Comedian Al Murray doesn't think so. At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019, Murray told JOE that for all of their talk, it is conservatives that are just as bad at taking a joke as those on the left.