Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder
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| Created by | Avalon Television |
| Directed by | Ben Kellett |
| Starring | Al Murray |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
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| Original network | ITV, UTV |
| Original release | 27 February – 12 April 2009 |
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| Related shows | Lee Nelson's Well Good Show |
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Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder is a British sketch show starring comedian Al Murray. The multi character aspect of the show was a departure from Murray's previous television comedy work, as the sole character The Pub Landlord. The show ran from 27 February to 12 April 2009, airing in the Friday night prime time slot on ITV & UTV. STV in Scotland did not broadcast the programme. It was commissioned on 4 June 2008.
Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder provoked considerable controversy, receiving very sharp criticism from some quarters of the press, whilst attracting positive reviews from others. In particular, a scathing review of the show by Tim Teeman was published in The Times, berating the show for its perceived homophobia due to the characterisation of Horst Schwul:
This view was backed up by The Scotsman, which described the characters as "crass" and "one-dimensional", and describing Schwul as "undoubtedly the worst comedy character in the history of civilisation".
By contrast, newspapers such as The Sun and the Daily Mirror gave the show broadly positive reviews, describing some sketches as "chucklesome", praising Murray and Eclair's performance as the Radio Ad Couple, and suggesting the show demonstrates that "the spirit of Benny Hill lives on".The Daily Telegraph noted that, whilst "parts of it may be too crude for some tastes... there are some winning ideas", whilst The Independent also enjoyed several sketches.
However, these views were not shared by the News of the World, which described the show as "just [not] that funny" and the characters as "a collection of Little Britain cast-offs...or Harry Enfield tributes".The Stage was similarly disappointed with the show, describing it as "very lazy comedy...dependent upon ridiculous costumes and cod accents to get laughs".
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