Talk:Al Murray
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Lovely and unbiased! Yeah but he deserves it - truly a legend! Megawattbulbman 18:53, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Call me dense, but...
A quiz show, Fact Hunt (say it aloud)...
What? I don't get it. 88.111.184.73 19:34, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Fact hunt = Fat c*nt. You dense b*****d.
- You mean "dents bustard". Call the RSPCA. Nphase 13:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
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- It's precisely for this reason that vague statements and innuendo like this don't belong in an encyclopedia, it just creates confusion. A quiz show, Fact Hunt (say it aloud) isn't informative, it's just playing a silly guessing-game with the reader.
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- I've re-written the text in a more informative style. It's OK, you can say "cunt" here. There's no censorship on Wikipedia. 172.203.101.212 19:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I deleted "The title Fact Hunt is a spoonerism of the words "fat cunt"." This is simply not true. A spoonerism of "fat cunt" would be "cat funt". A spoonerism of "fact hunt" would be "hact funt".--Shantavira 10:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Well if you thought it wasn't a Spoonerism, why didn't you just correct it instead of deleting the whole sentence? Because of your extreme editing style here, I suspect you may be using the "Spoonerism" error as an excuse to remove the word "cunt" from the article. If that's the case, sorry, but it's staying (with the Spoonerism reference deleted, just for you).172.159.126.224 04:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Took me a while, but I worked out "fact hunt"-"fat cunt" is known as an Oronym (look it up here :-))...something to be added to the main page, add it as you wish SmUX 13:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] character name
I always thought Al Murrays character was nameless, only known as 'the pub landlord', and that al murray was the name of the guy performing it, not the actual landlord (like alan partridge is steve coogan) but...now the tv show is called Al Murrays Happy Hour... so has he adopted it as the only thing he will do for his career?
- No, I just watched his latest show on ITV, and it was called Another Audience With Al Murray, The Pub Landlord. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.207.125.162 (talk) 00:31, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of section
I've removed the following:
Often in his shows, as a deliberate comic interruption, Murray offers a glimpse at the extremely intelligent and sensitive man behind his antithetical persona. This often involves a modest and subtle demonstration of his knowledge of philosophical and literary debates, and his appreciation of real-world political issues beyond the right-wing extremism he is lampooning (his act may be seen as a fresh take on the Alf Garnett idea). It is a testament to his skill as a comedian that he mainly uses this to deflate the egotism of anyone he invites on stage, who are mainly people with pretentious job titles from the first few rows. Although quite a lot of his act involves light-hearted 'attacks' on women, especially if they are drinking pints ("Tell me there's lime in it, darling!"), and people from other countries, the object is satire and ultimately the Pub Landlord is a deliberately pathetic creature, with Murray working in a background featuring a failed marriage, failure as a father and early homosexual experiences ("I was NEVER confused!") lying behind his misogyny and bigotry. As a particular example, when interviewing Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, he essentially dropped the persona entirely to express his admiration for the astronaut and discuss the conspiracy theory surrounding the missions.[citation needed]
Although I think we should be thankful to the person(s) who wrote this, this is in no was neutral - see WP:NPOV. Wikipeida is also not the place for original research of commentary WP:NOT, so even if this may be well written, it is not appropriate for Wikipedia. I considered editing it, but almost every sentence is a matter of opinion, not a statement of fact. In the end I had to be bold and get rid of it. Tompagenet 09:52, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
