Al Murray

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Biography

Alastair James Hay Murray, better known as Al Murray, is an English comedian, actor, musician and writer.

While at Oxford University, he performed in the comedy group the Oxford Revue, in a show directed by Stewart Lee.

In 1994–1995, he was the drummer in the band Evangelista, the house band at Stewart Lee and Simon Munnery’s experimental Cluub Zarathustra in London.

He won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1999. He regularly performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, before launching his Pub Landlord persona. This led to the Sky One sitcom Time Gentlemen Please (2000-2002) and the chat show Al Murray’s Happy Hour (2007-2008) for ITV.

In 2004 he presented Al Murray’s Road to Berlin on the Discovery Channel, a series about the last phase of the Second World War.

In 2009 he starred in a sketch show, Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder.

In 2010 he made a documentary on German culture for BBC Four called Al Murray’s German Adventure.

In 2013 Murray guest-starred in series 5 of children’s show Horrible Histories.

In 2016 he appeared in the third series of Taskmaster, and played Nick Bottom in Shakespeare Live, a celebration of 400 years of Shakespeare, opposite Judi Dench as Titania.

In 2018 he fronted the HISTORY TV series Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate The English, appearing both as Al Murray and his alter-ego The Pub Landlord. He also starred in pantomime at the New Wimbledon Theatre, as Jack’s brother Al, in Jack and the Beanstalk.

In 2019 he starred as his own ancestor William Makepeace Thackeray in a three-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vanity Fair by Jim Poyser, with additional material by himself. He also started producing a podcast with historian James Holland called We Have Ways of Making You Talk, where the two discuss battles and campaigns of World War II, and interview veterans and other historians.

[Source: Wikipedia, 03/03/2021.]