Sitting on the floor in front of the tv with no remote and only two channels to choose from with mum n dad and the rest of us kids, laughing at each other laughing at Dave Allen ....priceless memories
Yes,good old ,days, when families all sat together in the lounge, laughing their heads off... after eating fish and chips on a Friday night,,,, memories ...
Irish take the monopole of humour ... to me ! I went over 100 times to Ireland and met extraordinary people , such a humanity, such an outstanding humour ... love Ireland !
This man oozed charisma. He was handsome, charming and intelligent. My father idolised him. When his shows came out in the early 1970s it was like watching a highly sophisticated professional beguile you with his Irish charm. Great comic, sD3ly misssd.
Without doubt, Dave wasTHE greatest stand up/sit down comedian of all time in my opinion. Dave made hilarious skits, too. The guy was nothing short of a stellar comedian and the best storyteller ever born. Wow, what a talent he was...and what a terrible loss.
Saw Dave Allen perform this material live at the Albany Theatre London in 1990. I lost weight laughing. At times I wished he would stop. I had laughter pains in my gut. He was incredible. I hope his god went with him.
I was just a kid when I first saw Dave Allen, and that sign-off line of his ['and may your God go with you'] was pretty amazing for the time. Thanks for reminding me of it.
I agree with your comments and the amazing thing about this great master that is Mr Dave Allen is that a lot of what he says is still true to this very day
My brother and I saw Dave Allen live - both left the theatre in pain from laughing. He did this segment about planes and since then any time we fly we both draw little black fins on the safety cards.
This was actually right at the end of his career, when he made a comeback at the end of the 1980s. His most popular period was during the 1970s, which ironically was a time when very few comedians were funny or clever (although Dave Allen was).
He is still bloody funny despite having seen most of his shows. Really took the Mickey out of anything and everything. Pity there are not more of hil ilk around.
dont know how many times I have watched this, and others from him, but they never fail to make me laugh. He was one of a kind, not been anything like him since.
A true gentleman, a creative genius, a pleasure to listen to.. . So genuinely funny. Brought so much happiness and humanity to the world... the world loved him, I hope he realized how much his audiences loved him.
I started watching David Allen 35 years ago. He was right after Monty Python on Sunday night. He's one of my favorite comedians along with Billy Connelly..
My dad introduced me to this genius of a man, it has been my absolute delight to share him with my kids....especially love the "telling the time" talk! His humour is greatly missed! 🤣💔
I nearly choked on my cheese and pickle baguette watching this. A lot of the comedy that I grew up with doesn't seem that funny today, so if it still makes me howl then that person's a comic genius to have made comedy that's still relevant today.
My lovely, late dad's favourite comedian. Loved watching Dave with my dad, we laughed until we cried. :) :) And I still will NEVER set foot on a bloody plane? lol
Dave Allen was a talented funny man, he made me laugh so much, I could watch him over and over and still laugh as much on the 10th time as much as on the first time of watching him..
My first flight as a 9 yr old I can still remember asking grandma if anything was to happen at 35,000 ft why we had a lifejacket instead of a parachute.
*A parachute!? HA!* What, because with all the panicking that'd be going on, you think you could properly strap on a 'chute? (It's a harness, not a rucksack.) Especially if it was your first time? I'm guessing some people still wouldn't have the guts to jump anyway, even with their life on the line. Then there's the weather: you don't want to be parachuting when it's too windy. Even without bad weather, you could still find yourself in a region that's inappropriate to land... Hey, like, water! Hope you included the lifejacket as well. You didn't? Oh... Hope you have a knife to quickly cut the 'chute loose and take/cut off your clothes and that you're a good swimmer... Sounds like the kind of thing a nine-year-old and grandma could "easily" handle... :) So, really, you're much better off waiting for the plane to be flown/glided down, pop the lifejacket on, get yourself in the brace position, land (if gear still works) or hit the land/water, and get out when instructed (inflate lifejacket if appropriate of course). Legit question (especially if you're a youngster), but parachutes in planes is not going to happen! Unless you're going skydiving...
@@bluesfall3265 Parachutes are fundamentally not practical as emergency devices (in the context of passenger airliners, of course). Now quit worrying and enjoy your flight!
Dave Allen is one of my absolutely FAVOURITE comedians. He is absolutely hilarious. One of his best shows was the one that contained the anagrams that revealed the names of the politicians during the 80's. Satire at its best!
If you want to have another laugh find the one where he is talking about Christmas and rushing around at 5 p.m Christmas Eve trying to find a little light that was manufactured in Korea in 1953? and how you drive around at night around New Year's Eve trying to find a lawn to dump your tree on and then get back to your own lawn and find three other trees dumped on YOUR lawn! It is rib breakingly breathtakingly hysterically funny !! Sorry I don't know what it;s called - maybe someone else can help? And look up the one where he is telling the story about how he lost the top part of one of his fingers!!
My wife and I saw Dave perform in Norwich in the 80's. I was laughing and at times crying so hard that I would often miss the next joke. Sadly my wife sat stone faced the whole time. Best 2 hrs of my life.
Billy Connolly, Jasper Carrott, Peter Kay and Dave Allen are the 4 funniest stand up comedians I've seen. I've seen all of them and nearly died laughing.
@Vic Tomised I saw him live in Bridlington when I was about 16. He went on an hour after the scheduled close and everyone missed their buses home. No-one left. He was a very funny man. I also saw Tommy Cooper, and he was hysterical.
I immediately thought of Carlin's airplane routine. "They tell you to get on the plane...everyone...get on the plane. Fuck you, let Evil Knievel get on the plane. I'm getting IN the plane!"
He is one comedian that leaves me in stitiches so bad i cant breathe at times...esp teh supermarket sketch and the one about teaching a child about religion..
He was on the T.V.last night on BBC 2 first time I've laughed out loud in years, which made me remember how great he really was, I live on my own, so it was a real tonic in these unsettling times
I love how he got the most simplest of tasks and turned them into something so funny ie Shopping and waiting in line at the 9 items isle or less. R.I.P. Dave Allen🩵
I like George Carlin too. The difference is that his routines were loud and angry all along. Dave Allen could command an audience by speaking very quietly. Some of his most famous routines were based around ghost stories, almost as if he wanted to scare his audience, who listened so attentively you could hear a pin drop. We Brits like to claim a bit of Dave Allen, as he took the piss out of us as much and as mercilessly as those from his own country! Perhaps the best thing about him is that nobody has been able to do any muckraking about him since he died. Seems like he was a really nice guy.