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Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 3:12 am
by mrmcfister
Went up yesterday .Get em quick they will be sold soon!Best night out for years!
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 4:20 am
by Jacques
A typical 21st century Alf Garnett .... sorry .... Al Murray show...
Downs pint
Makes comments about the audience
Shouts about being proud to be British
Insert a load of xenophobia
More shouting
More pub talk
More xenophobia
More shouting
Derivative and unfunny.
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 7:22 am
by Count Dooku
Quite liked his 'Time Gentlemen Please' comedy with this character but that was more because it starred Julia Sawalha and Emma Pierson.
I find the character very boring now, I've seen a couple of the live dvds and the interaction with the audience is quite good at times but there is very little else to keep me interested, way too much shouting for no apparent reason.
I'm going to get tickets for Steve Coogans live tour later this year, his last live tour in 1998 is still the best I've ever seen.
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 7:26 am
by MrTickle
And i'm going to get tickets for Frankie Boyle who i consider one of the best new comedians around.
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:46 pm
by Trumpton
Jacques wrote:
> A typical 21st century Alf Garnett .... sorry .... Al Murray
> show...
>
> Downs pint
> Makes comments about the audience
> Shouts about being proud to be British
> Insert a load of xenophobia
> More shouting
> More pub talk
> More xenophobia
> More shouting
>
> Derivative and unfunny.
I always thought his act was a pisstake (in an ironic fashion) of all those 70s style stand-up comics we used to see on programmes such as 'Wheeltappers & Shunters'.
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 4:10 pm
by Arginald Valleywater
New stuff or gone into Peter Kay mode and re-hashes same old stuff??
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 4:14 pm
by hellblazer
Sorry Jacques but Trumpton is right. His act is ironic as was Alf Garnett's.
Warren Mitchell has stated that Alf Garnett was a pisstake but since it was the 60s and 70s when there were a lot of people like the character, those views were taken seriously.
Al Murray's Pub Landlord act is the same as Borat or John Thomson's "Bernard Right-On" character - parodies of small minded bigots that appeal to a more intellectual audience who are aware of the joke.
I've seen Murray live and I also really liked the sitcom. My only criticism is that after well over a decade, the act is getting tiresome.
Personally, I'm trying to catch Dara O'Briain on tour.
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 6:14 pm
by Jacques
Oh I get it ..... he's just not funny.
It's the 'Garlic bread' syndrome .... funny for about 10 minutes once and then it's about as funny as John Virgo bumming Jim Davidson.
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 6:53 pm
by bristolian
Most people are too thick to see it is a pisstake. At least, the audience is too thick. Dreadful, racist shite even if it is supposed to be ironic.
Re: Al Murray tickets on sale
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:03 am
by mrmcfister
You are so wrong..of course its a piss take!The bloke is an Oxford graduate with a brain the size of a planet...the tour will be a sell out..I just wanted to let any fans know the tickets were just released.BTW I know comedy is subjective but I have seen Coogan live and he is just not at the races as far as I'm concerned!