Best-known as his beer-swigging alter ego, The Pub Landlord, Al Murray is a British comedian and presenter. The Pub Landlord is a stereotypical working class British nationalist with a dislike for anything "un-British". He has a particular dislike of Germans and the French and will often challenge the audience to name any country in the world before producing some plausible instance of Britain bettering it. The character also has a great love for the 1970's rock band Queen.

The Pub Landlord first appeared in 1994 when Al was the tour support act for Harry Hill.. His theatre show with the pub landlord character, My Gaff, My Rules was short-listed for an Laurence Olivier Award in 2002, and he has also appeared in character as the central focus of the television series Time Gentlemen Please, as well as a number of other television appearances and subsequent theatre tours.

A quiz show, Fact Hunt presented by Al as the Pub Landlord, and named after the fictional quiz machine of the same name from Time Gentlemen Please, was shown on ITV in 2005.

Al's chat show, Al Murray's Happy Hour, began airing in January 2007 on ITV. The show was awarded a British Comedy Award and was nominated for a National Television Award.

Aside from The Pub Landlord, Al has a successful television and stand-up comedy career. In 2004, he appeared as a contestant in the first series of Hell's Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay's cookery based reality show on ITV, and in 2005 appeared as a contestant on Comic Relief does Fame Academy on BBC One. He also presented Al Murray's Road to Berlin on the Discovery Channel.

He was recently seen as the headliner on the Brighton episode of Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow.

Al also stared in Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, a sketch show on ITV1, which began on in February 2009.

Al is the Patron of the charity The Cambodian Children's Charity ('CamKids'), which is a development and relief charity for children in Cambodia.