“Unlike a lot of standups, I don’t talk about myself at all,” says Al Murray, the comedian who’s become synonymous with his boisterous, triumphantly ignorant Pub Landlord character. “A friend of mine ...

Al Murray is the pub landlord who holds forth on all manner of topics, waxing wide about the state of the world with all the skewed logic of a bar room philosopher. Anyone who has spent even the ...

The restoration of an 18th Century village pub owned by the community will feature in a television series presented by a well-known comedian. The Plough in Fadmoor, near Kirkbymoorside, closed in 2011 ...