I find it so fascinating that Dave only lived in Ireland for the first 19 yrs of his life, and then he lived in England for the next 49 years, and yet, such was the influence, the strength of the Irish culture, that he always came across as being 100 % Irish ( and his mother was English! ) You'd think that with an English mother, and a relatively short part of his life lived in Ireland, he'd have more of an affinity with England, yet it seems he did not. That's how strong the Irish culture was/is.
What woman would not want a man like that?I love the guy, because he's telling it the way it is, being Irish, ☘️ I can relate to him 100% miss yea Davie 😢😢
Hello fellow Dave Allen fans. As an Australian I have to laugh out him taking the piss out of Aussies at the beginning! I am not thin skinned at all and think the man is/was a genius, loved his work for about 40 yrs now. John.
Throughout the 1980's, Dave Allen At Large was shown on Chicago's PBS station, channel 11 WTTW. It was on at 10:30 Sunday nights, right after Monty Python and right before Doctor Who. I loved staying up late Sunday nights to watch those shows.
when you need to slow down, and just let that warm feeling of nostalgia cover you like a warm blanket.. nothing does it better than uk comedy shows of the 70's and 80's. Am i right ? 😊
Having just come back from a weekend in Ireland I can say this , firstly the Irish are the most welcoming of people, there food is brilliant, the countryside breathtaking and there humour as dry as a vodka martini, there dry wit is brilliant and I had a complete crack there. Dave Allen , a comic genius and the humour and satire are like a fine wine they get better with age 👍
I have to admit, I loved that short rhyme when I was a kid, and still do. As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, I wish that man would go away.
He would be crucified by the woke gender fluent binary non binary idiots and PC governments.Thank God I could watch him being 13 years of age 40+ years ago when you could laugh about everything and everyone without caring if it was offensive. I pity the younger generations, they will live in a horrible world.
Dave Allen was shown on PBS in the US, which allowed us Canadians (at least those in southwestern Ontario) to see it. There was nothing else like it. I was young, 13 or 14 at the time, and can't say I understood a lot of the references he made, he was so different from say, Carson, but Dave was sharp as hell and a superb story teller.
here in the midwest it was on late saturday night on a local channel. i was young too and i still loved it. i remembered skits for all these years. thanks youtube!
This is great!!! Haven't seen these in 40 years. A very funny man.The funniest skit is when he was stranded on a desert Island. Don't want to ruin it for you.
These shows and the man himself were brilliant. I remember them from back in the days where they were originally aired and just stumbled upon them here again. I just love the train sketch at 30 min. Dave cant suppress his enjoyment with the sketch. Thanks for posting these shows.
As Irish Catholic’s my mam and da wouldn’t allow us kids to watch this blasphemy as they called it, we still managed to watch him behind closed doors lol.😉here we are in 2022 and I’m laughing my head off, god bless you Dave Allen you surely are missed 🇮🇪
I'm so happy for these videos being uploaded to be easily watched - thank you!!! I searched for "Irish comedian with missing finger" and there he was - Dave Allen! I remember watching him on TV in the 70's with my parents - he had the rare talent of being table to tell funny tales while holding your attention - and the sweetest smile. And I also miss the "good ole' days" when you could smoke and drink on TV (and sometimes get tipsy) in freedom. Dave Allen, the Dean Martin roasts - people had fun with each other back then. Thanks again.
The Irish comedian without a missing finger :-) He tells a hike about people asking if he's the comedian with half a finger. He says no. He's got nine and a half fingers.
You could give yourself a hernia laughing at all this ! Dave Allen is just so funny !!! Love the jokes about Australia too cos I’ve discovered that my Yorkshire grandfather and his younger brother were actually living in New South Wales just before WW1 .
So many people think dave chappelle was the first to do skit shows with a monologue .But he was not. it was Dave Allen when Dave Chappelle was still a baby.
Thanks for posting! Haven't thought of this guy in 40 years....remember watching him when I was sick home from school in the 3rd grade. He was on one of the local TV stations around noon time in upstate NY. What a trip down memory lane. There was another guy named Paul Hogan who had a show about the same time....
64davrecon "Crocodile" Dundee.. [to a New York driver] Get on the right side of the road you pelican! No wonder you have so many accidents around here, the steering wheels on the wrong side of the car!
Yep you are👍I love Aussie irreverence to everything 😂 and Dave’s word is ‘absurdity’ of humans 😂😂😂❤️❤️🥲🥲 still miss him and I’m sure he’d have a crack up on world affairs of today! Thnx mate👍
As an Aussie I can honestly say that Dave is spot on in what he says 😂 I 🥲😂😂pissed myself laughing back then, and now it’s the same. Especially sex and religion 😂😂🙏❤️❤️
Dave Allen, my Irish anti depressant. A man who observed life and talked about it, and the fact that he got up the Catholic church's nose made him all the more popular to the young teens in Ireland at the time.
She missed a lot, I love Dave and was sad when he died, way too young used to watch him together with my mom who passed on also way too young. Mom, Dave rest in peace thank you for making my life bearable with your sens of humor!I'll take a whiskey on your behave.
As a practising catholic myself who loathes the institution that is the Catholic Church, I just LOVE Dave Allen’s jokes about the Catholic Church ! The confessional box one is a real corker ! Actually, man wasn’t made in God’s likeness, it’s woman who was, as the basic mammalian template is FEMALE so infact figuratively speaking Adam was created from Eve’s rib ! Not a lot of people know that ! 🤷♀🎓🥇🏆
@@Turrican60 Well, we’re created by the sum of our genes of course, but I remember the study of identical twins reared together or reared apart from my studies in psychology which then inform the ‘ nature’ v ‘ nurture’ debate. And of course it’s the fascination with identical twins which led to the dreadful experiments of that SATAN Joseph Mengala in Auschwitz concentration camp. I sure hope there is a God, cos he should rot in HELL.
True about the Female gender being the template and it makes sense as to why women are more discerning, have better dexterity, are naturally more enterprising without interference and more likely to stick around and provide for their children, have a better moral compass generally speaking, nor are women prone to the destruction of others or self destruction either, etc etc.. nor are they prone to the idiocy of assuming and bullying others for as much responsibility as possible, (E.g, financial), but then whining of having to carry all the responsibility and having to share 'their' money, (if it hasn't all been spent on alcohol and other rubbish first, before any food for their children), not my situation, but certainly a typical y chromosome issue for many. How interesting it is that Dave Allen was and is so offensive to many Catholics as you have mentioned. Institutions that discourage opinions or thorough questioning and worse, can't easily withstand humour, are the epitome of.. (feel free to fill in the blank).
Well Dave, if you were still with us you wouldn't need to worry about us Aussies, we can always laugh at ourselves.Miss ya Mate.P.S. did you rise to the heavens or down to the depths ???
As an Australian I agree with everything he said lol.... I am from the UK and emigrated to Australia I have found many snakes on my property, and I love a really cold bear, love it, the only way to drink a bear.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 The weather broadcast and Ireland... genius. Still 'lol'-ing. Good clean fun. Possible to cry with laughter without being offensive. Or taking offense.
😂 I'd your really not feeling good..some won't no about Dave Allen a Irish comedian..it's brilliant. And I have to say ..makes me laugh so much..(dam man pants zanno 😮)..
The joke about how Australians talk was basically copied by Dylan Moran at one of his shows. There was definitely a big influence on him by Dave Allen even in the manor isms used by both of them