My Dad (RIP) watched Dave all the time. I remember him sitting in his chair in the living room chuckling away. Such great memories. As a kid I never understood the jokes. I do now and I'm laughing and smiling for me....and for my Dad! 🙏
Nigol66. I was watching this for the same reason. My dad passed two weeks before his birthday last August and he was a big fan of Dave Allen. We really resonated with the Catholic humour as he was raised a Catholic too. We always found his sketches so hilarious and always think of my dad when I watch him. This is my way of spending time with my dad over Christmas as it’s my first Christmas without him. RIP to our dads and to the amazing comedian Dave!!! he brought us so much laughterAnd I’m so grateful for the times we spent together enjoying his humour🥂💗💯💯⭐️✨💫
your comment caught my attention, as I enjoyed watching when I was not supposed to as my mum disapproved, but I loved reading your comment and memories you have about your father, and very much likewise and its great to see Dave here and recall those times and wishing you all the very best👍
@@SunnyBeetle1922 I wanted to echo a lot of what you have said and thank you for your great comment and thoughts and recollections which to a great extend I can share and wishing you all the very best
unique and so meticulous about every gesture, behavior and wording which made him absolutely out of this world like someone watching us ... and criticize us and show how ridiculous we are🤪
My Dad R.I.P. was the exact same he loved watching Dave Allen back in the 80s & 90s when I was a kid growing up in Ireland. Dave was he's favorite comedian of all time. I can still picture him sitting in the bosses chair, as he used to call it, laughing so much that he had tears in his eyes. I of course hadn't a clue why. If only my dad knew his real surname was Tynan, the same as ours...I could imagine my dad saying if he knew that fact back then..that makes sense alright. Lol always makes me smile. Comedy Genius David Tynan legend. R.I.P.
Dave Allen was always a privilege to watch. Classic. I'm now a member of AA. One night when I had the courage to share (a god of your understanding). I quipped "May your God go with you 😮. I am still in AA.😮
Dear Clinton Hegarty ... you never know ... I think Dave himself would want laughter to go on, hence he'd wish for someone to make us fools laugh. Yep I understand and share your love for him.
Terrible attacks on Mother Church!! I watched this when young; I'm 76. Really made me realise how silly religion is. So ahead of it's time. Thanks Dave
We loved watching Dave Allen when we lived in the UK in London back in the 70s and early 80s. He's a gem. Thank you Dave Allen for all the wonderful laughs. RIP. ❤
Me too! So fantastic to have good 70ties comedy to laugh at again, takes me back to my childhood and when all the family watched this show together. Thank you whoever put this on YT!
I watched him with my father as a young child, I am now 60 and he is just as funny and entertaining today. An irreplaceable icon who's memory will live on. Thank you for all the laughs I shared with my father. RIP Dave and thank you for the fond memories.
Dave Allen was a unique and very great comic talent. Outwardly, he was urban, relaxed and charming to a fault. Inwardly, he was driven by rage and anger against the mundane and the banal in everday life and Establishment hypocrisy wherever he found it, whether in the church or state. His humour was observational and personal but universal in its appeal. It spoke to, and for, us. I miss him still.
Indeed Davinia, it would not. But it's not that they're scared of upsetting some blue haired, unstable, Jo bloggs... you simply cannot speak against the narrative, therefore, you most certainly can't mock it.
Not that he was so very un-pc or offensive. But the idea of a person just being able to sit in a chair, no props or gimmicks or even much movement, and just be side splittingly funny and entertaining, would never occur to them. And no one around today could do it like Dave either.
Not just one of Britain's greatest verbal comedic talents, Dave Allen showed the absurdity in the everyday, the mundane and most of all, a humans capacity for both good and evil in a way that only someone without a sense of humour would ignore. It didn't matter if a belief in the supernatural was required, to Dave, all that mattered was if you laughed, then he had done his job. He never treated his audiences as if they're a bunch of ill informed idiots, only there to be insulted, for him it was a privilege to make you laugh, to think and with any luck, to leave his shows with a new-found hope for the future. Although he's no longer with us, he'll live on in our hearts and memories. To Dave Allen, gods favourite Atheist, Rest In Peace.
"some day we'll have hot summer"; shame you weren't still here to enjoy it when it came in 2022 Dave. I would love to have heard you comment on this madness we are in the midst of here now
The tenner under the car wheel is,for me,one of the greatest tv jokes ever,it encapsulates everything about a man who without doubt one of our greatest comedians
Listening/watching this while in the gym. Laughing quietly and grinning like a Cheshire Cat. Comedians can't tell a story like Dave Allen. Amazing talent.
I loved watching Mr Dave Allen, he was such a funny man, & I used to enjoy his jokes, with a cigar in one hand, & a scotch in the other, he was just something else. RIP DAVE.
I grew up watching Dave Allen, and it was brilliant to re-watch his shows at different ages and understand more and more jokes. To this day, I can re-watch and laugh no matter how many times I've seen the routine. What a treasure this man was. 💜
Dave Allen magic! We would watch him in the 1970s and early '80s - totally mesmerized. Caught this tonight and my pets were wondering around signaling confusion because feeding time was delayed 2 hours due to Mommy lost in this man's incredible talent. Thanks for sharing ❤
DAVE ALLEN was so hilarious and witty.. Loved sitting down with my family as a kid watching him. Some of the jokes I obviously didn't understand but now re-watching his show I understand and can't stop laughing. He is 1 of a kind 😂😂😂😂😂😂
He was compulsive viewing in our house in the 60s (I moved out in 71) and then beyond and my mother was an Irish Catholic. My parents would howl with laughter and listening to some of these videos again, I still do. Brilliant.
My Dad always used to watch Dave Allen many many years ago whilst having a drink and a smoke. I now do the same. A very funny man that still makes me laugh today. Good Night and may your God go with you.
Who wouldn't want Dave as a dad. What a wonderful wit. And came from Rathfanham ,just like me. Many years have passed since his departure, but leaves us all still laughing 😂😂RIP Dave.
Dave Allen's urbane, observational, comedic style drew from a deep well of anger and sardonic contempt for the totems of the Irish society in to which he was born: church; state, class. He exposed hypocrisy where he saw it and railed against the absurdities of the age in which he lived wherever he saw them. He was a true original. I can think of no comedian in my lifetime who I miss more.
my parents from wales uk went to zambia (africa) copper mines for lifestyle change in the 1970z and i as a small boy would whatch dave on zambian tv believe it or not ..i pissed me self laughing and still do
Dave Allen was a Genius. So funny. His jokes reflect a time that I remember as a child that is now sadly long gone. You don’t get comedians like him anymore. Still makes me laugh in a way that is not matched today.
Although with a different delivery style, Billy Connolly is also another brilliant observer. One of my all-time favourite Dave Allen sketches is Telling the Time - it's up there with the Two Ronnies' Four Candles. Laughing even as I'm writing this!
my Grandfather adored the ground he walked upon, even recorded a series off BBC in early 80s and still had it till he died 4 years ago... i loved Dave Allen too......
As a kid, I found his Statistical jokes so so hilarious. I love irish humour Dermot Morgan as Father Ted being one of my Fav comedy shows. You just don't get this quality of content anymore on TV very good memories thanks for posting this.
I seriously believe this video gave me glimpse of how it must feel to be in some paradise (not saying I know anything about paradise n stuff, but this was a pleasure better then sex or liquor ... or sex n liquor ... not saying I know anything about sex or liquor stuff I am a born muslim n practising Zen celebate monk - unofficially though). This gentleman is a pure gift in a world full of mixed blessings.
@@daviniarobbins9298 Trust me Davinia my friend my own fantasies change so much that my own paradise would be my own hell depending on time and my mood. BTW my paradise has no problems with sex, liqour, food choices ... I only insist that genuine belly laughter is a must. Dear Dave provides excellent laughter, may my soul stay near his ... wherever I go while I am alive or when I die.
@@koulster2 my brother-in-law, a Kiwi, went to Darumsala and stayed with some monks. As a cross-cultural attempt he showed them the video of "The Life of Brian".They sat dutifully thru the movie, but laughed uproariously only at the skit where Brian falls into a crater and lands on the foot of a Monk who breaks 30 years of silence with an "OWW"!"
I remember every living back on Long Island in the 70s. And watching every Sunday night's on Channel 9 at 11 and crying myself to sleep. A true master.
Brilliant! Brought back some very pleasant memories I didn't realise my brain still held. Not so much the monologues, but I genuinely could remember how some of the sketches ended as soon as they started.
These skits and jokes were a great memory test for me and surprisingly I could still recall the punchlines for many of his classics. Proper comedy in an era when the world had a sense of humour and people weren't afraid of taking the piss.
I have only been on your site for couple of months and l must say l just love it so much what a wonderful Lady you are l live un Hereford UK the home of cider with a wonderful cider museum as well. thank you so much for your lovely videos. David Lea
I discovered him, first, in 1971 and, since, he has made me laugh through good, and very bad, times. Every time tears come to my eyes, because of family I situation, I go back to his shows and, even if I almost know most by heart, he brigs my smile and optimism for the rest of the day. Wherever he is, I know “ his God is with him” RIP my good friend
Me as well...funny as hell...he announced he had stopped smoking and someone in the audience called out: "What do you do with your fingers now?" Without missing a beat, Allen retorted, "Come up here and I'll show you!" Brought the house down!
Oh God, how refreshing to watch and listen once again to a very funny, elegantly dressed, mature man and natural comedian. Now we have 60 year old 'alternative' comedians dressing and acting like 14 year old boys. Pathetic!
Dave Allen was one of the first comedians to tell stories or observational comedy. Of course, Billy Connelly would be in that category as well. Sadly missed Rip ❤
After years not seeing dave Allen it was a complete treat a reminder of how much we used to laugh at his jokes and humour these days theres not one comedian who would compare to Dave Allen Peter Sellers or spike Milligan and That wonderfull voice and comedian Harry Secom and all those pommy comedians that are and were incomparable to anyone today the closest was Billy Connely but he was still old school but i cant think of any Bob Hope was bloody boring compared to the good old rude and send ups of English and Irish comedians they were hilarious there were others like On The Buses and Morcam and Wise the two Ronnies all those funny guys and ladies who starred in the carry on series and god i cant remember the rest but they were all so iconic nothing like that these days anyway we enjoyed them all it was a great relief to have a good laugh in the evening it allways put us in a good mood but anyway those were the days of great comedians and after that came Monty Python 😂😂😂😂😂!,,!!! Allways look on the bright side of Life 😂😂😂😂while hes hanging on the cross 😂😂😂😂hahahahahaha I loved It i need a bit of that now I reckon at the of allmost 81+ age or a bit of faulty towers and so on anyway thats all gone now and the younger generations havent got any sense of humour at all its all too politically correct too bad nevermind thats life moving on 💟☮️☸️🕉️🛐🇦🇺🇮🇩🇺🇦🌈🌈☔️☔️🌻🦋🍀❤️🧡🌏😍😍🥰🦋🌻🧡peace and love to all 🙏🙏🙏😂😂😂
Totally understand and agree with you, but if I may, you forgot another beloved comic of mine, namely Benny Hill ❤😂🤣 😅 Greetings from Canada & Happy Holidays 💥
Dave Allen still here - obviously missed by the virgins, the easily 'offended' - I mean the staff here. "part time females required" - the innocence!!! A whole new meaning that he could not have imagined - you were a legend Dave!
I'm delighted to find this. Dave Allen was my dad's favorite comedian. This reminds me of growing up in the 80s in Ireland watching this with him. Now introducing my American wife to his fantastic comedy.
