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Dave Allen

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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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Puzzledandpissedoff · 31/03/2019 18:11

Totally agree, Helena. So many "comedians" of today confuse comedy and cruelty, laughing at folk rather than with them

It's talentless and unnecessary, as the genius of Dave Allen showed

maggienolia · 31/03/2019 18:22

The sketch of the priests and nuns using the confession boxes as dodgems was an absolute classic. ..as well as the one about teaching kids to tell the time.

bananasandwicheseveryday · 31/03/2019 19:15

@eddiemairswife

I wondered that too. Apparently it was Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.
Very sad. Dh and I loved his humour - funny and irreverent but not nasty or unkind.
Didn't see the programme, but will definitely find it on catch up.

yolofish · 31/03/2019 19:26

oh I need to watch this! great memories of my mum (catholic Irish) and dad watching and me laughing along too. But I thought I heard something fairly recently that implied that he was somehow persona non grata nowadays?

GarthFunkel · 31/03/2019 19:42

Is Alex in? Is something I still quote to my teenagers when they grunt at me.

ForalltheSaints · 31/03/2019 19:45

HelenaDove you were being kind to Mrs Brown's Boys, it is worse than that.

I have listened to the story of his first day at school just now which is very funny.

HelenaDove · 31/03/2019 19:48

Mrs Browns Boys is a pile of steaming manure.

Notastepparentbut · 31/03/2019 19:53

Oh I loved him as a child / teen. Thanks op, I’ll find the programme on iPlayer. Sunday night, sorted.

CaptainJaneway62 · 31/03/2019 20:23

Absolutely loved Dave Allen. Fantastic comedian and so good looking. Just hooked to the TV as a kid watching him!

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 31/03/2019 20:31

Loved watching him with my Dad as a teenager while DM virtually disowned us. Very funny guy.

I loved the anti-apartheid gag last night, so beautifully observed and so pointed.

Notastepparentbut · 31/03/2019 20:35

I had forgotten just how beautiful he was. Really really good looking.

MulticolourMophead · 31/03/2019 20:41

He demonstrates what so many modern comedians lack; no constant shouting, no endless bad language

I once went to see him live, and he did drop the f bomb a number of times. Still bloody funny, though Grin

Ontheboardwalk · 31/03/2019 22:33

MillyMollyMandie I hope your Granny tutted or shook her head before she laughed out loud. I bet it was great seeing her laugh like she did.

I never saw my Grandma laugh like she did at Dave Allen

Willow2017 · 01/04/2019 00:20

Been watching the compilation show and the documentary

Still as funny today, laughing my socks off. He was incredibly clever at pointing out absurdities and inconsistsncies in all walks of life through humour. No nastiness like many comedians, just gently prodding us and asking us to look closer at something.
Wish they would rerun all his shows.

Used to have a crush on him watching with my parents😁 (Still find him hugely attractive😀)

"Nose knickers" 😂😂

Rumboogie · 01/04/2019 00:38

I seem to remember though that he descended into filth

AlexaAmbidextra · 01/04/2019 03:57

I seem to remember though that he descended into filth

Filth you say? I’d quite happily have descended into filth with him given the opportunity. 😈

Lungelady · 01/04/2019 08:30

filth
Grin
Are you Mary Whitehouse?
alwxa there is a queue

ShatnersWigIsActuallyAMammoth · 01/04/2019 08:35

Found him hilarious when I was little and still do. I knew someone (also now dead) who knew him for some years as they lived in the same place. Always spoke very, very highly of him as being a very down to earth guy, no showbiz, would do anything for anyone.

longwayoff · 01/04/2019 09:08

Filth? Crumbs, tender sensibilities here.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 01/04/2019 13:40

I’d quite happily have descended into filth with him given the opportunity

Too bad, Alexa ... being an old gimmer I'm almost certainly older than you, and I saw him first!! Grin

AlexaAmbidextra · 01/04/2019 13:52

Too bad, Alexa ... being an old gimmer I'm almost certainly older than you, and I saw him first!! grin

😂. I’m an old gimmer too. If he was still alive I’d offer to fight you for him.

TwitterQueen1 · 01/04/2019 13:53

Please someone tell me what the 'filth' was! I want to know!

OutInTheCountry · 01/04/2019 13:58

I watched him as a kid and loved him, I was also weirdly aware that I fancied him, watching him now as an adult I stand by that. If it's the programme I'm thinking of then I watched it a while back and was struck by what a lovely guy he was. So sad that he didn't get to meet his youngest but how lovely that she has all his work to look back on.

Topseyt · 01/04/2019 14:08

I always liked him. I am confused by the comment that he descended into filth. He didn't. Anyone who says he did must have watched a different Dave Allen to me.

He was very good at pointing out irony and absurdity. He regularly did send-ups of the church, most regularly the Roman Catholic church. No harm there, it is fair game for it.

HelenaDove · 01/04/2019 15:55

His youngest is a boy and he is named Cullen after Daves father.