Al Murray = Marmite

Advantages: Traditional Comedy
Disadvantages: Traditional Comedy

...Al Murray is a love/hate kind of stand-up - his archetypal pub humour seems to appeal more to what the media would consider a generation that's past. I'm not so sure this is the case. This stand-up routine holds up with "comedy genii" of today, the Peter Kay's and Ricky Gervais' of the world, but is just more old-fashioned. To those who saw Time Gentleman Please, the underrated sitcom in which Murray played his Landlord character, his stand-up is a natural extension of this. The bigoted, patriotic and traditional pub landlord, standing up for all that is British. One of the strengths of the characters is that there is something ridiculously gay about Murray anyway. The fact we know this humour is tongue-in-cheek almost makes it acceptable to laugh at. As an old traditionalist (says a boy of 17), there's certainly room for this...

Toad283 24.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of Al Murray - The Pub Landlord - Live - My Gaff My Rules (DVD)

Murray delivers a delicious pint of comedy

Advantages: Hillarious, side splittingly funny at times
Disadvantages: Very similar to his previous shows

...Those familiar with Al Murray's pub landlord character will most likely have been won over by him already, and this DVD will surely reaffirm your love for the character and want very much to get in the next round from the landlords pub. This show is a cool refreshing pint of comedy fun. The show starts with Murray's routine of picking on the audience (in jest of course) about their profession, appearance, name and just about any comedy gold he can scrape from them and it is (without using the acronym "Lol") laugh out loud funny. Murray's quick wit and ability to think on his feet is astounding, he obviously must have some pre prepared jokes for this purpose but nevertheless he delivers them with snappy comic timing and confidence (gained through the shield of a comic character) with clever callbacks and memory that are also...

salmonchaplin 27.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Al Murray - Giving It In Both Barrels (DVD)

The Burj Al Arab

Advantages: Read Opp
Disadvantages: Price

...This review is about my time at the magnificent and luxury hotel the Burj Al Arab. I was lucky enough to spend two nights at this hotel during New Years Eve and New Years day 2008/2009. I had a friend who?s dad did a tone of import export business and thus I even managed to stay their for free, yes that?s right for free, under the condition that I paid for all my own food, and drink, which I was more than happy to at the time. Now everyone has either heard about this hotel, been their or at least seen the pictures of what it looks like, and let me tell you its even more breathtaking in real life. This review will hopefully give you an insight into the hotel, information regarding all the rooms in particular the one I stayed in, what the facilities are like, what the food and bar is like as well as the service provided by the hotel...

jaygami1986 12.08.2009 · Read review
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Time Gentlemen Please

Advantages: side splitting humour at its best
Disadvantages: none

...Creators: Al Murrey and Andy Herring Producers: Al Murrey, Richard Herring, Jon Thoday, Richard Allen-Turner, Mark Freeland, Sara Geater, Richard Boden and Phil Bowker. Starring Al Murrey, Phil Daniels, Julia Sawalha and Emma Pierson Total of 37 episode in 2 series and a Christmas special, starting in 2000 until 2002. **BASIC IDEA** The show is mainly set in a grotty pub (whose name never gets mentioned through the entire 2 series), with a landlord who happens to hate almost everyone, such as foreigners and gays. He likes to run his pub the old fashioned way and believes all pubs should be run like that. The unhappy, hopeless landlord is known as the Governor or Guv, played by the balding and very dry humoured Al Murrey. Guv has help behind the bar from Steve, (played by Jason Freeman) who is a wimpy sort of young man...

blissman70 09.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Al Murray - Time Gentlemen Please (DVD)

FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Murray Drops Bombs. Word Is Bond

Advantages: Great lyrics
Disadvantages: Little variation

...?The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World? came as the debut album from the Def Squad member Keith Murray as his first solo effort) four years before Erick Sermon, Redman and himself did their own collective record). It gets the New Yorker coming through ion 1994, working off the hype of the East Coast underground trend (which came as a result of the Wets Coast being more popular at this time) and being backed on the beats by none other than the E of EPMD. 1. ?Live From New York? (Intro) 2. ?Sychosymatic? Immediately the MC is able to show exactly show strong his lyrical abilities are as here he gets right into is freaky flows and makes sure that everyone gets a good idea of what he can offer the game as he jumps on top of some heavy beats from Sermon and the pounding bass appears to motivate the MC into what goes down here...

XICripZ 27.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Most Beautifullest Thing In The World, The - Keith Murray

Feeling a little Pete Murray

Advantages: Some great little numbers on here
Disadvantages: Some not so great little numbers on here

...Now this whole one man and his guitar thing is all good. I like it. The simplicity of it reaches out to me. Its not over complicated like so many things are in music now. Oh and it means I can sing along and pretend I'm really famous *ahem* Pete Murray is probably best known in Australia but will be known in the UK to anyone who watches a popular Ramsey Street based Soap as his songs are littered throughout it. The album flys up to this hemisphere at 41:16 long and throws a complete and utter mixxed bag of standard at us. TRACKS (11) FEELER (4:21) A title track of an album normally has to be good. A title track of an album that is also the opening track better be darn good. Now as normaly for a One Man and his Guitar type song, this has Pete singing over himself playing. However there is also a hint of an organ playing now...

andthentherewere 04.12.2006 (11.04.2007) · Read review
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Review of Feeler - Pete Murray

Al Green

Advantages: Great songs
Disadvantages: None

...Most people are surprised when they hear about my musical tastes. Most see me as someone purely into heavy metal, my friends as heavy metal and clasic rock, but even my very close friends don't seem to understand how far my taste goes. I have always loved every type of metal and some rap and dance but it is only recently when i discovered the wonders of 70's Soul and funk. The first time i heard Al Green was on Pulp Fiction with the song "Let's stay together". I loved the song from the first time i heard it but never looked into it until i bought the movie soundtrack, since then i have been searching Al Green in youtube and discovering all sorts of other great music. I have always been into laid back songs and have often skipped through albums to find that one slow love song. With this collection you get some of the best of Al green...

joe-survey 02.12.2008 · Read review
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The Pub Landlord Live At The Palladium review

Advantages: Funny
Disadvantages: May be offensive to some people (can't think who though)

...Al Murray is an enigma to me. I have a very modern sense of humour and so bar a few things anything before the 1980's seem kinda flat. Especially the kind of comedians Al Murray is reminiscent of. You know the type, racist, sexist, homophobic and cliched jokes about mother in laws and how England beat Germany in the 1966 world cup, I would rather eat sand than watch anything of that sort. And yet I love Al Murray, I think he's hilarious! I think it's because he knows exactly what he's saying is stupid that's funny for me, it's done in an ironic way, he's sending up the people down the pub who make these kind of jokes and he does it brilliantly. It's like crossing one of those old fashioned comedians with Albert Einstein. He is a very intelligent person, he knows at least some French and German, can ad-lib fantastically and is not...

Walter_Kovacs 19.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Al Murray - The Pub Landlord - Live At The Palladium (DVD)

Murray mints - delish

Advantages: Lovely creaminess and minty too
Disadvantages: High in fat

...Bassetts Murray Mints are a lovely yet strange sweet. Bassetts have combined a minty buttery taste that strangely works very well. Now if you have never heard of these sweets - you should ask an elderly person as these sweets were very popular back in the 40's and 50's. They were first introduced into the market in 1944 and believe it or not they were the very first product to have a television ad jingle! Now here in Ireland these sweets are very popular and are always on the sweet stands in any shop. However I believe they are a rarity in the UK. I recommend if you see them in a shop - grab them. They are available in a 227g bag but they are also available in a roll. I would reccommend buying the roll because for some strange reason once you open the bag the outside of these sweets go soft. Im not sure why this happens as...

oxoxallyoxox 28.03.2008 · Read review
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