The Pub Landlord Movie?

Al Murray says he’d love to bring his Pub Landlord character to the big screen.

In an interview with The Sun newspaper, in which Murray talks about being the Pub Landlord for two decades, he said: “I’d love to make a Pub Landlord film – where he goes looking for the Holy Grail, because it’s a pint pot. Because the Last Supper was a stag night of sorts.”

The comedian, who debuted the Landlord while on tour with Harry Hill in 1994, also said he hopes to continue playing the character for another 20 years.

He said: “What’s been interesting is it has adapted and changed and survived. I thought, ‘Just hang on in there with the character and more and more people will tune into it and it’ll become sort of part of the furniture. Rather than a dash for glory, just hang in there.'”

Murray also defended his mock-xenephohobic character, and says anyone who takes the Pub Landlord seriously probably doesn’t have a sense of humour.

He added: “There’s supposedly the people who think the Pub Landlord’s real and agree with him and there’s supposedly the people who go, ‘Well, you shouldn’t be doing that because you’re saying terrible things and people believe it.’

“Everything he’s saying is complete nonsense, so if they’re agreeing with it, that’s hilarious.

“And people at the other end are a tiny vocal minority who need to worry about something else and who are denying what satire, parody, piss-taking, comedy and, irony actually are.

“They don’t want audiences to think, and don’t credit them with intelligence, flexibility and, most importantly, a sense of humour.”