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Al Murray shares his unmissable TV picks for Christmas
Christmas telly is repeats and it's OK because the last thing you want on Christmas Day is to spend it with anyone new - so tuck into my festive guide.
Al Murray, The Sun, 9th December 2018Cast revealed for Richard Branson comedy Island Of Dreams
Harry Enfield, Samantha Spiro, Morgana Robinson and Al Murray are amongst the stars for BBC Two comedy pilot Island Of Dreams.
British Comedy Guide, 8th December 20182019 Glasgow Comedy Festival announces first names
GICF will present the pick of Scotland's home grown talent, including Jerry Sadowitz, Janey Godley and Larry Dean; alongside celebrated comedians from further afield, with Julian Clary, Reginald D Hunter, Rich Hall, Al Murray, Foil, Arms & Hogg, and Tiff Stevenson all set to appear.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd December 2018Al 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 2017