Al Murray on Brexit, the pub landlord's politics and why he could never vote for Jeremy Corbyn 

Best quote in comedy right now 'I believe people who are confident in themselves have the capability to laugh about themselves'. Strong reflection on the theme of cancel culture.

Fascinating chat. He's so dishy. He ages like a fine wine ...for the ladies. It's amazing how the pub landlord inspired us to laugh at ourselves, but in a strange way to be just a little bit proud. Is proud the right word? Perhaps just a case of accepting that we are faulty, but still worthwhile. Al Murray may or may not like this particularly, but I think the years of the landlord helped the outcome. I'd buy a drink in his pub, and one for him, too.

I’ve seen a fair bit of stand up in my time but Al was streets ahead of anyone else and I’ve seen some big names. The art of chatting with an audience seemingly off the cuff and holding them in the palm of his hand is amazing. Very funny man.

He is an outstanding comedian possessing the magical supersonic brain, immense knowledge and hilarious outlook. Right up there with Robin Williams and Stephen Fry.

Al is ACE at most thing's he does. I'd vote for him any time!

Al Murray .. Great man to listen too whether comedy or history

Fascinating interview; for me, the "Pub Landlord" is one of the funniest stand-up comedy creations of all time. Why wonder where it came from or where it may be going if it makes one roar with laughter? Re WWII, perhaps its fascination for Al Murray, and many others, was that it pitched a generation of people (my father's) into a situation of untold suffering and producing much untold bravery, making one wonder whether the same response ever be seen again.

Al, you are a most thought provoking and intelligent, erudite individual. Thank you.

Well done Al, the interviewer used a lot of leading questions there to trip you up. That said i finally got to see you live this year in Peterborough, so thank you for coming here it ticked of a bucket list item for me. It was a great night. I wish my history teachers had taught the subject like yourself, and my 25 yr old son said the same. Ive learnt more since leaving school than i ever did at it on the subject and like yourself i read those titles as a child.

....and a glass of wine for the ladies 🥂

My mind is absolutely boggled! 😳

What a great and wonderful interview. Well done. Thanks for sharing. Chris

What a super highly educated, intelligent, open-minded, erudite, talented man Al M is. He makes one laugh, reflect, and get an education while sipping his 'perfect British made/German beer in a French glass'! Bless his talented soul and thanx for the much-needed laughter mate😂😂

My comments on Al, added to various RU-vid uploads, in hindsight appear to be always somewhat serious. There is a reason for this. This insightful interview into Al's background and education add further weight to the argument (which should be the consensus), that he remains an extremely important comedian, blessed with great intelligence and intellect. The use of the word "important " is not a replacement for the word "funny ". I find him to be hilarious, a genius, deserving of dining, by invitation, at the table shared and hosted by Benny Hill. In a hundred years time, my choice of the word "important " will be vindicated, but this in no way detracts from him being funny and hilarious. The choice of "important " is to be treated as the ultimate compliment, he is that crucial to providing comedic input to the situations of his time.

So what who he votes for. Why do they ask such stupid questions. No wonder Murray was laughing at that one.

Genius Comedian

The summing up pretty much described one of my turds.

I was a fan, loved the 'Pub Landlord' persona but was unaware of the depths and thinking and (I think this is correct) erudition of the man. Monge tout, monge tout mon Ami! Pax vobis.

'Your descendants include'..... Lol. You mean 'ancestors'.

The NHS was a cross party issue, it was proposed by Beveridge who was a Liberal, put forward under the tories which had cross party support and voted in under Labour, the only difference between the tory approach and Labours was that the tories wanted decentralised regional control and Labour wanted a centralised control, we got the top heavy inefficient Labour version

Fuck! Al you got more hair than me lol, that's lockdown I guess. joking apart, big respect mate👍

This is hilarious looking at Al looking up at his master the interviewer (screen) and the interviewer looking down and interrogating Murray from on high - and I’m not entirely sure he’s not being tickled by a hidden BBC hand 👋 lol 😝

Murray makes it clear he is a floating voter, sometimes Labour, sometimes Tory, sometimes Lib Dem. Yet the headline for this video implies he is a Tory, which he isn't really.

It's great to see Al being himself. Why do they have such a peculiar set up of cameras where we have this interviewer looking down on Al like a predatory vulture? Perhaps he is. His comedy routines always seemed to have left me with some gem of information - he is like a teacher successfully educating you whether you like it or not, lol, that in itself is very funny. When talking with some female who had been and actress on one of these awful TV shows called, "Love Island", he mentioned that she had been in a "love triangle" and then did a little lesson on the different triangles - it did all seem to go over her head which made it even wittier. Modern women ..... So clever and so funny.

Ive always had a bizarre crush on Al Murray. Just me?

Fascinating man. One point; Muslims and Jews (and christians for that matter) are all Semitic religions. Everything else I enjoy but he misses on Israel (particularly as I watch this now.)

Floating voter is the only way to be.... imho. Make a difference. He's less interesting when he's being himself, so that makes him a great character actor.

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Your act is brilliant... A pretender.. But good......... Just need to teach the labour elite how to be working class

Now he has a pub .

Labour may have the credit of the NHS but it was the Tory party that put it together

22:53 French Revolution ad infinitum

Al is what a great comedian should be, which is someone that helps reveal the absurdity of the world by making people think for themselves. In many ways, Al's own personal opinions on any subject are irrelevant to what he achieves during his act. It matters not at all whether he believes anything he says or not. The point is that he says it, he makes people THINK, and so question their own assumptions by doing so. Real and profound wisdom and a load of opinionated bullshit, can be found in all kinds of places, spoken by all kinds of different people, employed in all kinds of different occupations, often within the same sentence. We are all seeing the exact same fucked up world from our own unique perspectives. What we should all try to do better is understand this about our fellow beings. Be honest with ourselves and others about what we really are, and not try so hard to be what others want us to appear to be. If you don't understand something say so. If you think something is Bullshit, call it out as such. You may change your mind, or you may become even more confident in your understanding. Stand up, be authentic, and counted.

It's my little brother Alan.

❤️ Fuck me, what an interview. Al has given his time(life) Party politics has nothing too do do with, the pub landlord, whom we all love, as a memory. That is how things actually were. I am a few years younger. How much as a nation would we really enjoy Jeremy? What we have is an administration catering for both. Get a grip Beer for boys wine for girls. Get over it . Thank you ✔️

I love you Al, and respect your intellect. you certainly make me laugh very much and I enjoy your 'pub landlord' persona. I myself was not privileged enough to have gone to public school, but can say, that to me, you seem like a conflicted personality? I mean this in the sense that you, having had your private education, have in a way been protected from the reality of political decisions made in the 1970's, which probably won't have had much impact upon your daily life. I'll give you one example of a more recent event though; Habal Hamsa was a hate preacher who openly spoke about the hatred he had for the british people whilst living in our town of Luton. Several years later and at the cost of at least two politicians careers, he was finally deported from our shores. This protracted process was the result of the European court of justices decision, whom discerned that, it was against his human rights to be removed from our country on this charge. Nigel Farage has been the only true protector of (the uneducated English) because we are the meek, the polite, and underrepresented; to speak up and protest against this hatred of our culture, the English, and the inequities of the lower working classes.

Boarding school ? Oxford ? What happened ?

The pub landlord is highly erudite about British history.

Never saw the Pub Landlord thing or known about his comedy tours, weird .

I don't understand why Al Murray is so against the greatest politician of our times, Nigel Farage. 😁

Ancesters not descendants.

he's right about ben elton being a prize knob

He remembers, he voted Tory.

Al Murray claims towards the end of this video that 'Labour created the NHS to thank the people for fighting the war' and the Conservatives thanked the people for pulling together. This is a popular misconception, it was in fact the Conservative Health secretary Henry Willink who first published a white paper entitled 'A National Health Service' in 1944. This was applauded by all, including the Labour party. But unfortunately after the War the Conservatives lost the election and it was left to Labour to put Willink's plans into practise and Labour have claimed all the credit ever since.

0:17...sorry to be a pedant mate, but I think you mean Al Murray's ancestors not his descendants. Oops! 😊

I would respect him more if he just held his hands up and told the truth. He is left wing, he dislikes UKIP/Tory policy and the establishment. Like most liberal left wing toffs who have come from comfy backgrounds built on the principles and merit of conservatives, he would prefer a left wing agenda. Why? I think its as simple as "daddy would disapprove" mentality. Etched into the dark corners of his mind. p.s. Cameron announced the EU referendum would take place in 2014, regardless of Farage's win or loss in the 2015 by-election.

I really like hairy Al

He so voted Tory in 1987, someone as politically engaged as Al Murray doesn't forget who they put a cross next to the first time they voted. I get it though, he's got his livelihood to consider and a comedian admitting they voted Tory is leaving themselves and their career wide open to the judgement of the "tolerant" left. I can almost here the cries of "Burn him, burn him" if he ever did come clean!!

I've voted all my life, but in the last few years I have become one of those voters that I never understood as a young person.... The "spoiled ballot paper" voter. When NONE of the parties on the ballot represent the things you feel most strongly about, when there is NO "clear blue / red / orange water" between the party manifestos (for what they're worth), only a big messy, meaningless "one size fits no-one" consensus, and when finally the general calibre of the candidates on offer is so inexecrably bad, and finally there is no "none of the above" tickbox on the ballot, then what can you do? Not vote? That is just easily discounted as "just a low turnout" & "voter apathy", surely better than not voting is to put your message and feeling on the paper, and then if the day ever arrived where 64.3% of the vote was spoiled ballots, it might then be interesting to see what would transpire from that result.

You still should'na treated politics like a sketch from one of your shows AL. You can act as modest and dismissive as you like, but MUST know, you carried some degree of influence and fan worship , that could, and did, carry enough weight, to affect the voting figures for, THE most important and potentially effective, Member of Parliament. Mr Nigel Farage. Clearly, the general Public,were 'Not amused'.

You are so a remoner but can’t admit it because pub landlord would be confused

Posh boy punching down?

What they got on you Al... Remember he works for Murdoch...

Al Murray posh boy shits on the anti-EU sentiment of the working class, a classic safe comedian for people who like a middle class chuckle. Never risked anything creatively in his nutra-sweet saccharine act. Shows how far safe middle England comedy can get you.

Horrible man.