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AIBU?

Dave Allen

108 replies

PositiveVibez · 30/03/2019 23:52

Just watching an old show. Aibu to think that if he were alive today, he would have a bloody field day!

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PositiveVibez · 30/03/2019 23:55

In the name of the father, and of the son, and into the hole he goes 🤣🤣

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frankie001 · 31/03/2019 00:19

Watched some too. Before my time but found him quite funny!

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Bunnylady53 · 31/03/2019 00:22

Loved him! Always remember “ Big Daddy, The Kid & Spooky”!! 😂

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thenightsky · 31/03/2019 00:24

And may your God go with you.

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Korvalscat · 31/03/2019 00:25

I recently watched him talking about teaching children to tell the time. My dgs1 is learning this at the moment and it is particularly apt.

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MissLadyM · 31/03/2019 00:27

Very sexy too! ☺️

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HelenaDove · 31/03/2019 00:27

Love him. Funny insightful and intelligent. I highly recommend The Essential Dave Allen by Graham McCann.

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RancidOldHag · 31/03/2019 00:27

I remember watching his show when I was a kid - lived it then, and mildly horrified my parents when they realised I 'got' jokes they thought should go over my head.

What I didn't know about was the more serious side (documentaries, straight acting)

Or that he was banned (in Ireland?) for a while for the Pope striptease sketch!

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HelenaDove · 31/03/2019 00:28

@MissLadyM Yes There is something about a man in a waistcoat. Ditto Edward Woodward in The Equalizer (Im watching reruns on Forces TV.

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Hellenbackagen · 31/03/2019 00:32

yanbu. i used to love watching him. and i liked the mix of stand up (or sit down with a fag and whisky!) and sketches. i thought he was hilarious.
and wise. his humour was full of wisdom and honesty and i liked him.

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PositiveVibez · 31/03/2019 00:38

full of wisdom and honesty and i liked him 😍

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Absolutepowercorrupts · 31/03/2019 02:06

The night sky
That phrase always struck a chord with me. may your God go with you
I loved the way he just sat there on his high stool with his whisky and cigarettes in hand, he was just chatting away and he yet had a perspective that was very different from the comedians of that time. I'm over 60 now so that was a long time ago, his humour was actually entertaining.
He didn't tell jokes, no punchlines, it was a stream of observations about every day human life. Fabulous man

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LoudJazzHands · 31/03/2019 02:10

My Mum loved him and fancied him so I grew up watching him. Amazing comedian whose work is still funny today.

I didn't realise his wife was pregnant when he died :(

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Soverytiredofeverythinggoingon · 31/03/2019 02:54

I was lucky enough to see him live due to my Dad being involved with the company he was working for. A fab bloke, so funny, tonight's show made me weep tears of sadness and laughter in equal measure. As a lapsed Catholic his comments were spot on!

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ThanosSavedMe · 31/03/2019 03:24

Love Dave Allen

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DemelzaPoldarksshinerrefiner · 31/03/2019 03:30

The funeral race.

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ICantBelieveIDidThis · 31/03/2019 03:32

I used to love him, as did my Irish family.

Verbal humour and slapstick, taking the piss out of the Catholic Church.

I saw him live and it was genius. An entire London theatre howling with laughter. I was crying with laughter and almost wet myself.

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Willow2017 · 31/03/2019 04:22

A bloody genius.
Loved him. So insightful and irreverent without going down the route of nastiness. A man of many talents.
Yep he would have had a field day just now.