I was lucky enough to be on the front row for one of his gigs, I'm also a soldier so I got the expected level of abuse at the start of the show. The best thing was, half way through the show, a good 30-40 minutes in, he spoke to a guy in the balcony who when asked what his job was, said he was a sniper. Al didn't miss a beat and told him a sniper wouldn't of given his position away then called on me by name to confirm he was talking shit. It isn't just how quick he is, its that he remembers every bit of information the crowd gives him and comes back to them at the perfect moment. 1 guy after the show actually asked me if I had been planted there by Al. Nope, mans just a legend.

@papamurrth1

Жыл бұрын

He's a legit genius, his lectures are really good. Makes his character even better

@adrianmcgachie

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@staticcentrehalf7166

Жыл бұрын

Great comment/story.

@terrytt5067

10 ай бұрын

I'm Ex RAF and part of being in the Air force is being able to accept the piss being taken out of you from the Army & Navy personnel! Harmless banter, like what Al Murray dishes out! Absolutely love the man's S.O.H. And Bring Back National Service. It will sort out many problems in the U.K. and give A.M. some ammunition for future piss-taking.

@jimherbert007

6 ай бұрын

100%. I saw him in Winchester in 2019 and he recognised a young lad from 2 years before and started riffing on the jokes he had told him then!

Have been in the front row of his gigs a couple of times - no extra charge for it and it’s hilarious. The entire first half was just chatting to the audience like this, no pre-scripted material until the second half and even then he linked back to those of us he’d talked to! The man’s memory is immense

@robertstrong6798

Жыл бұрын

As we all know he is a history teacher , he issued to remembering peoples names etc that’s part of why he is so good. Teacher and comedy 🎭 seems to mix well 😂

@paulwalton1222

Жыл бұрын

@@robertstrong6798 mixed well with Greg Davies but not so much with romesh ranganathan.

@gazb87yorkshiresalt48

Жыл бұрын

@@paulwalton1222 It's because he's Racist! Romesh not Al Murray

@paulwalton1222

Жыл бұрын

@GAZB87YORKSHIRESALT plus he isn't funny. I dunno how romesh can be called a comedian. Never once made me laugh.

@williamwilkes9873

Жыл бұрын

You seem to suss UK humour pretty easily.........many don't!

Al is an English/British gem. The thing is, you can watch the same show many times and just laugh and laugh. The Brits will and can and 'take the piss out of each other' all the time. It keeps our feet on the ground all the time.

Boomer, kudos to you for getting this humour. You're an honorary Brit.

Saw Al Murray live last year, front row tickets were extra expensive as the money for them was going to charity, don't know if that was a one off or the norm for his shows. I was amazed not only at how great his audience participation was but how he remembered everyone's names/jobs and kept coming back to them throughout the show. Best comedian I've seen live to date, in tears most of the show, absolute legend

I saw Al last October & spent large parts of the show hardly able to breathe properly because I was laughing so much, he really is superb at the audience interaction.

Thank you so much buddy for appreciating the man, I am really impressed that you understand the Brit humour and i don’t mean any disrespect. I enjoyed watching you as much as Al, take care mate 👍

The O2 Arena holds up to 20,000 but when I saw him live it was in a small club with about 500 people there. That was in 2002 and he's still touring, with shows on at the moment. He finished his set back in 2002 with a quiz game, called Fact Hunt...which sounds tame until Al asked us all to shout out 'Fact Hunt' repeatedly, until it sounded like we were all shouting...well, something else at him!

I'm pleased you Americans enjoy British humour. We are lucky to have Al Murray that's for sure.

I had a personal front row seat with Al Murray he was in the back as a london cabbie I was driving him home from the london studios to west london he was very quiet until the last part of journey when we saw a cyclest with planks of wood on his bike what a personal laugh with a comedy legend

@simontay4851

Жыл бұрын

Ive cycled with pieces of wood on my bike before. I zip tie them to the cross bar.

You seeing Al Murray live without the ability to pause the show would kill you.

@sprinterofficial8457

Жыл бұрын

Well it’s a KZread reaction so he has to pause it or it’s basically a reupload of someone else’s video

@Turn1t0ff

11 ай бұрын

​@@sprinterofficial8457 that's not what he was saying at all. He meant that being in the audience at a live show, not being able to take a break from laughing (unlike when watching a video) would kill Boomer.

"What do you do between meals... for a living?"

This is the O2, England's premier entertainment venue, built to celebrate the Millenium.

I've seen him live, I left the theatre with stomach ache from laughing so much. Yes he is a very clever guy and very patriotic.

He has a fantastic knowledge of military history, did a great series about WW2 😊😊

"Blue & Striped Shirt, it's like a barcode innit... like a barcode... Boop! - 'Twat!'" Pausing here to catch a breath from laughing!

Most of his shows begin like this mate. Unfortunately you've only experienced tiny snippets previously which didn't give you anywhere near his best. I've seen this whole set its amazing. You should try and get the other 2 parts. 👍❤️

All British people know that if you go to a comedy show, you cannot be delicate and offended, Al is Razor sharp, he is a brilliant Historian and he mimics real life barmen. bombastic, opinionated and he has a true feel for the audience mentality.

When you watch comedians they sometimes can control a room Our man can hold crowds with skill. He has every single comeback in his back pocket and its as if its part of his show. His altar ego The barman is so good.

His show reminds me when back in the 80's I saw Eric Sykes and Jimmy Edwards do a 2 mans show very similar to Al Murray. About 2 minutes into the show a couple arrived to take their seats. The pair noticed this,looked at each other then started the show again word for word. The audience laughed then settled again. Three minutes later another couple crept in to take their seats. Eric and Jimmy stop, look at each other, look at the audience, wait a beat then everyone bursts out laughing guessing what might happen. The hapless couple have no idea why they are the butt of so much laughter. Genius.

You are completely correct, Al Murray is a genius comedian.. I think the great British comedians you have reacted to should invite you over to publicly react to their shows !! You & the queen are by far the best reactors .. love wathing you both 😁😁👍👍👍

Al Murray is the cream of the crop in the comedy scene! He’s top of my list! The blokes a genius and a genuine decent bloke outside of playing his pub landlord character. Genius of a man!

Your right the kid looked scared at first but later on he is clearly having fun 🤩

Nice. Glad you're doing an Al Murray that includes the introduction. Usually you have to0 watch a full show (and there are many on youtube) to see the intros. The intros are often the best of his performance.

His knowledge of Military History is amazing.Had many tv specials on WW2.

I love the bit of him vs the joy boys and him vs shrek n Fiona! Totally funny

My all-time favourite Al Murray routine is the "Secretary" sketch.....it's his trade-mark interaction with the front row....a "must see" for all lovers of the Pub Landlord....you will not be disappointed !

His memory for names of those on the front row that he roasts , is incredible, given that it’s different names every night…..he goes back to them sometimes 20 mins later and still remembers everyone……👍👌🇮🇲

I seen him live in my town, phoning up China to ask for 3billion bullets and them asking why lol

This is how he gets to know everyone in the audience..... legend 🇬🇧

I love Al Murray. I’ve seen him live. What a lot of people don’t realise because he plays the character so well is how supremely posh he is. The past 3-4 generations of the men in his family including Al are all oxbridge and have senior army and clergy roles. He is from money. He hides it well. I once saw a documentary of him with hair talking about his favourite German composers.

Saw Al in Glasgow in 2006. Some poor bloke in the front row was a male nurse. Al got all of us to stand up and point at him, while shouting ‘Shame on you’ at the guy. He was nearly in tears!!

@SimonKennedy-ct7bo

Жыл бұрын

For a laugh hopefully I'm sure 😮

@bobblehat6603

Жыл бұрын

Would they have shamed a doctor in a similar manner? A study, made in the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield and reported in the medical journal The Lancet, found nurses made fewer serious clinical errors than doctors, were better at recording medical histories, and patients treated by them were less likely to need follow-up advice.

@robertswann1052

Жыл бұрын

​@@bobblehat6603I'm a Doctor of Respiratory Physiology. I wholly respect our nurses and the work they do. But it's us Doctors who make the big decisions.

@shanefoy3720

11 ай бұрын

A male nurse in Glasgow sounds fishy to me 😂😂😂😂

@samo5857

10 ай бұрын

Brilliant 😂😂😂

I saw Al at the O2 but this is total genius, thanks for it.

He's doing a 2024 tour... If you're lucky enough to get seats near the front you'll be a sitting duck 😂 he'll rag on you as soon as you tell him you're American...

That was brilliant, just love our stand up comedians, nothings off limit with em and that's what makes em the best also your reactions are great.

The tickets should come with a warning, "no one's safe" 😂

I saw him do the "Where's the fkin money!" live in the Brighton show around that time, he climbed across the top of about 10 rows of chairs right to the middle of the audience to take 20 quid from a bloke who said he was a banker and call him a wanker

Seeing Al Murray LIVE is such a FANTASTIC experience..... Your expectations WILL be surpassed ... He has a website for his tours

Was at one of the earlier stops on this tour, he was ripping into everyone. An old couple up on the balcony, people 10 rows back, there was no safe seat. Great night

Fantastic video. Very funny guy. ...#kingboomer For reference, 118'dia is reference to the old English 'Directory Enquiries' line (to get phone numbers) + the fact that such call centres are now based in India. And the Peru + bear reference relates to Paddington Bear coming from 'deepest, darkest Peru'. Keep making these great reaction videos!! Utterly enjoy them.

Went to see Al Murray in Bournemouth many years ago, was around 2009 (might have been this tour actually). His rant about the 2012 Olympics was fantastic 😂

Me and my mate went to see Al Murray at the Albert Halls here in Bolton in 2011. Thankfully, we sat right at the back. He got a woman up on stage and got and got her to pretend he was a shark and she was his prey (or something along those lines). So he ended up chasing her around the audience and they ended up running right past me and my mate way on high at the back.

The 02 holds 20'000 for shows like this, so yeah not a bad crowd

ha king, you need to watch all of the 02 tour. absolutely brilliant.

Boomer you made my day..been off work after my first chemo .was feeling down.cheers mate. Best wishes from m England

@margaretflounders8510

Жыл бұрын

Wishing you the very best...

The O2 Arena (formerly known as The Millennium Dome) in London holds approximately 15,000 muppets.

@royster3345

Жыл бұрын

Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Animal..... no you'll have to help me with the other 14,996. 😊

Newcastle, Northeast England here. I love your laugh, it’s the bloody best 🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@elliebelle6181

3 ай бұрын

I'm not far in Gateshead. I love this video clip

I watched this when al did it,I watched it with you the day you put it out,now its come up again with you,its my absolute favourite reaction of yours KB,thank you mate

Yep I’ll bet the front row seats are highly prised ❤ people love to have the piss take out of em 🤣🤣

You have to do more of these videos because he always takes the piss out of the front row at the start of his shows.

That lad isn't terrified, I'm sure he's loving it

Lol, got to love Al Murray, (The Pub Landlord ) without doubt we Brits have the best comedians!

Boomber he's back 2024!!

I have a friend who is a teacher who went to an Al Murray show , he was asked while in the que outside of the venue if he would like to be in the front row 😂😂😂 Al took him to pieces 😂😂😂😂

@markyoungman148

6 ай бұрын

Guessing your friend didn't teach you to spell? As Manuel in Fawlty Towers would say..."Que"? 😉

i saw al murry live in 97, my 2 mates was wearing white baseball caps, we sat about 10 rows back and as soon as he saw the 2 white caps he proper ripped them, it was amazing to see

Al Murray, Mickey Flanagan and Rhod Gilbert are the 3 best standup in the UK.

Al Murray can work the crowd like no one else. But Freddie Starr was the original GOAT at this technique.

Sat at the front no extra - just bought the tickets early. He asked what i did for a living I said bugger all and he left me alone!

I always love watching your reactions, especially today as I got my tattoo done, something to take my mind off the pain was definitely needed. 😊

@marckappen7925

Жыл бұрын

King Boomer tat ?

Love an Al Murray video . Your reactions always make it even funnier .

As long as Maude Flanders isnt in the crown that bazooka should be safe

He is also one of my favourite comedians. He has a true gift. I agree this is the best Al Murray clip I’ve seen. Will have to find a recording of the full show.

You don't need an American version of Al Murray, just become British and he's yours

Love this video and your reaction. This was just what I needed to make me smile and laugh out loud, thanks

I saw Al Murray at the Liverpool Empire. I booked a seat in row F (a was front). I won’t get any closer!

biggest mistake i ever made was buying front row tickets to see Al Murray...... haha

The O2 is what the Millennium dome was. The big giant dome like thing next to the river Thames in Greenwich, London.

When you buy a ticket for one of his concerts, they sell them by asking do you want to be in the splash zone. This is a area where the audience are in range of all flying beer, insults and other things, rough for them but great entertainment for the rest of the audience......LOL

Al is a superb actor too. I just hear him in a radio play of Pygmalion. He played Dolittle. He was superb.

Fantastic clip, Love Al Murray, so unique. Please can you react to the UK show Facejacker, one of my favourite reality clip shows in recent years. A good one to start on would be "Dufrais At The Baseball Game | Facejacker " (the 8.47 minute clip) then maybe "Brian Badonde Takes A Painting Class | Facejacker ". You wont regret checking out this show Kingboomer.

@vilebrequin6923

Жыл бұрын

Nor forgetting Terry Tibbs!!!

@MrSpock-ww3qt

Жыл бұрын

@@vilebrequin6923 "talk to Terry"

Britain bailed out the Bank of Ireland in 2009 (£4 Billion+) when the shit hit the subprime fan - mainly because most British banks (which were also bailed out in 2009 to the tune of £200 to £500 Billion (no one really knows to this day) had all invested in the Bank of Ireland's shitty subprime "investments" too, which actually turned out to be even more toxic than the subprime shit on their own books. The Pub Landlord knows everything, and we were all still very fucking angry about the whole stitch up at the time this was recorded. He knew his audience.

first part of his shows is getting to know some audience members ready for later on when he gets on to his topics he then knows which audience members to to have another go at. it always amazes me how he remembers their names

I saw two Al Murry shows back to back in Edinburgh a few years ago and amazingly though the basic structure was the same pretty much both 2hr gigs were totally different! Amazing adaptability.

I've seen Al at our local theatre and if you want front row tickets you just have to be first when they go on sale. Not priced any higher than for the rest of that seating section. He is always brilliant. 😀 Edit: At one performance he was running around the auditorium with a teenager in tow, this included through and over the rows of seats. I think it was something to do with swimming like a shark, but I may be wrong about that.

I loved Jim Davidson when I saw his live 'Pantomime Show' titled 'Sinderella' especially as there was a lot of emphasis on the 'Sin' part of the title. It was a truly spectacular show and absolutely hilarious with it. If you can manage to find a copy of the Live Show online, it is well worth watching as both myself and the female friend I went with loved every second of it, we were both in stitches throughout the show, so much so that I had jaw ache by the end of the show! The other Live Stand Up Show I have seen was 'Hale And Pace' with whom I had a reasonable amount of direct interaction back and forth! Norman Pace being a local as he came from Newark in Nottinghamshire and the show being held in Nottingham City Centre knew exactly how to get a reaction from the crowd, and seeing as I was very quick with a retort and despite only being in the 2nd row, I managed to have more interaction with them than anyone else that night. There is a very big rivalry between the people of Nottingham and Derby, in particular, their 2 major Football Teams as in Nottingham Forest (The Greatest) & Derby County (The Rams) or in Notts better known as the Sheep Shaggers! But this particular night, when they were portraying their characters called 'The Management' Norman Pace said about Nottingham Football Fans liking Sheep, to which I shouted out straight away, "No Mate, That the Derby County Fans, they are the Sheep Shaggers!" To which Norm Pace came over to me and asked what I said so I repeated myself and he said it out loud to which almost the whole of the audience erupted in cheering and baaing, just like sheep do! He then asked how I knew and I replied "Cos they wear woolly underwear!" To which everyone around me burst out into hysterics! That was a very funny night too, which we thoroughly enjoyed as it was particularly special seeing as I was about the only person to get any direct interaction with them, especially seeing as their characters are more aloof than Al Murray's Pub Landlord, as I said, they were 'De Management' so to manage to get a couple of spells of direct interaction, I was particularly fortunate! 😉😂🤣

I watched him live once and an American lady stood up and started calling him a sexist, and disagreeable person. She got so upset he had to stop the show and explain it was an act. She walked out.

Because in England we mostly insult people we like, our family and friends, when comedians overtly insult the audience then they assume the position of friend, when it happens we just want to sink into the floor and die but also we laugh because that is what we would say if we had the chance to say it to someone else.

That place he's playing in, the O2 Arena, is huge. It's covered by a structure called the Millennium Dome which was opened at the start of the new millennium. Al Murray is wonderful :D

Ide pay extra not to be in the front row

@gteaz

Жыл бұрын

You pay extra to be at the front. Your best option is to pay less.

@PearlSnce

Жыл бұрын

I'd*

@fireballpaul12

Жыл бұрын

Best place to be at an al Murray show seen him multiple times and been picked on everytime

The second he said Muppet show of a front row i new you would love this clip😁

We have a really strange quirk in the UK - you don't need to be Irish to work in the Bank Of Ireland!!! What an amazing concept! 🤣

I sunk when it suddenly ended. Al is hilarious 🤣

If he did that in the US he would be sued by at least 6 people on the front row 😂😂

Al Murray is very intelligent, each show is different and laced into the people he speaks to

There is no extra charge for the front row. I would usually avoid it myself. Although was tricked into centre front row with Jimmy Carr. Luckily, we came to an understanding. And had no contact. And it was funny!!

If u sit in the front row with Al, you're in trouble 😂

Bank of Ireland used to operate the UK post office banking services, which is probably why he worked for Bank of Ireland but was British, we also have (or had) bank of Scotland branches in England too.

@thomasreilly6362

Жыл бұрын

The Bank of Ireland has never been British.

@davebirch1976

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasreilly6362 I meant the guy who worked for bank of Ireland was British.

And this Man has a degree in history from Oxford or Cambridge, not sure which! Brilliant comedian!

I think you and Queen Boomer are perfectly matched to be honest. It's sickeningly sweet 😅

He's a legend in England

You are definitely batting above your average with Queen Boomer!, 😂

Awesome mate, I’d love to see him live, thanks 🙏

I know Al is a huge Genesis fan and you can see with the crisps he uses Phil Collins explanation of the domino effect before playing Domino at their live stadium shows. “Over there, down here, over there, at the back……….”

@concise707

Жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one to notice that!!!

Love your videos mate, keep up the great work

I'm literally crying with laughter, I'm with you this is the best AM I've seen. Painfully funny,

Your reactions are the most enjoyable to watch of any I've seen. Genuine enjoyment there.

Thanks man, I needed this.

Al Murray is an intellectual and comedic genius. Absolutely one of the best because of his vast knowledge of stuff. I love him in Taskmaster which I'm sure you have on your watchlist.

I’m a Londoner and love you like our comedy

The Labour government left this country bankrupt Al Murray was spot on and so funny.