Once in a while a genius comes along. Dave Allen one. I grew up watching him. I loved him then and still, love him now. Sadly, we shall never see anyone else with his genius. Thank you so much, Dave, for the laughter, the truth you spoke and the wisdom you gave through the laughter.
Ik besef nu dat ik geluk had , opgroeiend in België , Engelse TV had thuis, BBC, ITV, enzovoort,als kind van de jaren 60, en 70, was deze wonderlijke wereld van Engelse TV ,een bron van zeldzaam geluk en humor,in wat ik noem een moeilijke jeugd,moeder dronk van s'morgens tot s'avonds,en vader dronk om zijn kop in het zand te steken!! En wij (bange)kinderen deden wat wij konden om te overleven in zoeen gezin! Maar je zoekt geluk waar het zich presenteert hè,en ik besef ook dat ik waarschijnlijk misgroeid ben door Dave en zijn laatavond schows,en natuurlijk ook die knotsgekke Dokterhumor van de serie "M*A*S*H*" en die australiër die het begrip Zelfhumor naar een andere niveau bracht,Paul Hogan! Terugdenkend aan mijn jeugd en beseffen dat ik echt gelukkig was ,en mij krom lachte tijdens deze schows,en nog steeds nu ,als ik die tune van TAXI hoor met Tony Danza,of er begin liedje van M*A*S*H* ,een warm gevoel van het plezier dat ik daar kon mee ervaren toen in die nare tijd? thuis komen van school en ontsnappen met yogi bear,of Top cat,of die prachtige jeugd TV ,Blue Peter,en dat lied "sailors hornpipe" En die zwarte , seksistische, galgen humor van Dave ,is tot vandaag nogsteeds vergroeid in mijn positieve karakter ,wie schreef dat ook al weer,het waren de beste tijden,en het waren de slechtste tijden! Zoals Dave zijn er geen twee!👍
@@brunovanhove1832 sailor's hornpipe is nog steeds 1 van mijn favorieten :) Daar word ik nog steeds vrolijk van! Dave Allen had de kwaliteit om alle fouten van de mens aan het licht te brengen, maar dan wel op zó'n manier dat je er toch om kom lachen. Dat heeft mij ook door veel dingen heen gesleept. (opgroeiend in Nederland, ook kind van de jaren 60 en 60. Stiefpa zoop en sloeg en deed ook andere dingen, moeder liet het maar zo want dat was minder vermoeiend en eng dan er tegen in te gaan). Gelukkig alles overleefd om nu nog steeds te kunnen genieten van Dave Allen's zeldzame kwaliteiten
It's 3:40am and I've now watched over 5 hours of this very funny guy...Mr. Dave Allen, who I had never heard of til tonite. What a genius and hilarious comedian. --- M.S.A.
well...i'm from the states and we watched him growing up...to me he IS a legend but far too many people don't remember him and that is a shame...he was brilliant and as good a comedian as ever lived in my opinion...thanks for posting
Zeker weten! Heb altijd genoten van de shows die in Nederland werden uitgezonden. Dat waren er niet zo veel dacht ik, dus nu heel blij dat ik de rest ook heb kunnen zien
Hahaha👍👍😂😂 Still the best after all these years! Good points, fantastic observations of ordinary life.., always in all his work! There will never be another....
So many of these things ring true to me. I was a child of the 70s and 80s, and I remember...Mum and Dad doing the exact same thing. But I still loved them! It's a wonder we're not all bleeding fruit cakes after what our parents do to us!
Amusingly, I know exactly where he's coming from, since the most devout member of my family, my Grandmother, would have me lie to a local water park about my age when visiting with her to save a buck.
Mine used to do that too but it worked out well. Thanks to all that practice, I can now look anyone straight in the eye and lie my pants off without so much as a grin. Wonderful woman, my mum.
He got in trouble one time for "swearing". Anyway, what is a swear word? Words like murder, rape, war all fine, but not words for parts of the body or making love! How strange are so many accepted customs.
My dad use to watch dave allen during the 70s and 80s when i was a kid even back then so young i laughed so much. I didnt understand most of his jokes then but his facial expressions and curses were enough to have me in knots.
No, he didn't have a terrible childhood. Remember he's exaggerating for comic effect! Most parents were like that until relatively recently. The people he had problems with were the nuns - "Gestapo in drag"/
The word genius is always bandied about comedians. But, in this case it is true Dave was a true wordsmith and great orator. His stories were so compelling and you really take notice of what he’s saying. These days all they seem to do is swear.
No complaints then. We accepted making fun at each other . Be it status, religion family values etc. We all knew where we stood. Now we have the PC brigade (and yes, step in when need be) but ffs. This and other Dave Allen sketches/clips are harmless. Wowwww. I hear you say. "you can't say that, it sounds like you're being prejudice towards people with a dissabilty" Geezz i'm Epileptic and i take the piss out myself with my mates You now get my point. I'm not, and Mr Allen is not also. Lets all lighten up and see fun and banter for what it is, and not what some want it to be. Amen In the words of Dave Allen. "Goodnight, thank you, and may your god go with you"
John mcgowan Not sure you understand what PC means. It means treating people equally, particularly through language, but doesn't preclude joking around as long as the intent is ironic and not meant to malign (but most anti-PC comedians are just too lame and lazy to write a good politically incorrect joke). Dave Allen seems like one of the more PC comedians I've ever seen. It's all about context, intent, and obviously the joke itself. Dave's awesome. Thanks to Stewart Lee for getting me to him.
+Tom McCauley well put, people seem to think p.c. is killing jokes when all it's doing is weeding out the humorless garbage people try to pass off as "jokes", dave allen can get raunchy or "blue" but it's always of a high caliber. the difference being allen was a brilliant humorist not someone with the latest punch down "joke".
i'm a very big fan of the late dave allen. i've been watching him since my grandad showed me a show in the early 80's. some people don't like him because he was apparantly anti-church. well,he wasnt i don't think. he had a series nearly every year for 20 years. not many comedians can boast that, and he was supposed to be 'bad' for the BBC. he had alot of complaints but we still found his wit & inteligence somewhat hilarious. so form myself, just to say 'goodnight....and may YOUR god go with you'
I had a similar upbringing: sometimes I'd get tiny spots on my tongue that made my tongue sore: when I told my mother, I got "That's what you get for telling lies"
I don't know if anyone sensed this, but I do not feel Dave was anti God at all. I feel he was anti religious dogma and hypocrisy. It seemed to me his constant references to and monologue themes about God was revealing a deeper questioning than he cared to admit. Just my opinion.
Haha, my mum used to look at our backs to see if we were lying, and if we were she said there would be a red X on the back. And then once I'd figured it out and because I was the oldest and enjoyed bossing around my younger sisters I'd pull the same trick on them haha
My mum used to catch me whenever lied by asking me to look into her eyes and then tell he that I had done my chores or something I couldn't do it without laughing she always caught me out.
@sonadagothalus no, he would still be a legend, he's just dead but saying "was" a legend would imply that he stopped being a legend, not stopped being alive.
Once in a while a genius comes along. Dave Allen one. I grew up watching him. I loved him then and still, love him now. Sadly, we shall never see anyone else with his genius. Thank you so much, Dave, for the laughter, the truth you spoke and the wisdom you gave through the laughter.
Ik besef nu dat ik geluk had , opgroeiend in België , Engelse TV had thuis, BBC, ITV, enzovoort,als kind van de jaren 60, en 70, was deze wonderlijke wereld van Engelse TV ,een bron van zeldzaam geluk en humor,in wat ik noem een moeilijke jeugd,moeder dronk van s'morgens tot s'avonds,en vader dronk om zijn kop in het zand te steken!! En wij (bange)kinderen deden wat wij konden om te overleven in zoeen gezin! Maar je zoekt geluk waar het zich presenteert hè,en ik besef ook dat ik waarschijnlijk misgroeid ben door Dave en zijn laatavond schows,en natuurlijk ook die knotsgekke Dokterhumor van de serie "M*A*S*H*" en die australiër die het begrip Zelfhumor naar een andere niveau bracht,Paul Hogan!
Terugdenkend aan mijn jeugd en beseffen dat ik echt gelukkig was ,en mij krom lachte tijdens deze schows,en nog steeds nu ,als ik die tune van TAXI hoor met Tony Danza,of er begin liedje van M*A*S*H* ,een warm gevoel van het plezier dat ik daar kon mee ervaren toen in die nare tijd? thuis komen van school en ontsnappen met yogi bear,of Top cat,of die prachtige jeugd TV ,Blue Peter,en dat lied "sailors hornpipe"
En die zwarte , seksistische, galgen humor van Dave ,is tot vandaag nogsteeds vergroeid in mijn positieve karakter ,wie schreef dat ook al weer,het waren de beste tijden,en het waren de slechtste tijden!
Zoals Dave zijn er geen twee!👍
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@@brunovanhove1832 sailor's hornpipe is nog steeds 1 van mijn favorieten :) Daar word ik nog steeds vrolijk van! Dave Allen had de kwaliteit om alle fouten van de mens aan het licht te brengen, maar dan wel op zó'n manier dat je er toch om kom lachen. Dat heeft mij ook door veel dingen heen gesleept. (opgroeiend in Nederland, ook kind van de jaren 60 en 60. Stiefpa zoop en sloeg en deed ook andere dingen, moeder liet het maar zo want dat was minder vermoeiend en eng dan er tegen in te gaan). Gelukkig alles overleefd om nu nog steeds te kunnen genieten van Dave Allen's zeldzame kwaliteiten
When you are old enough to discern the quality of genuinely funny comedians, you might realise how fundamentally essential Dave was.
Could not have said it better my self
It's 3:40am and I've now watched over 5 hours of this very funny guy...Mr. Dave Allen, who I had never heard of til tonite. What a genius and hilarious comedian. --- M.S.A.
Mark Alexande
So pleased you have found him, Mark ~ he was first class ~ often in trouble but so funny
same thing for me, I discovered him 2 weeks ago and love him so much I watched him for hours every day
Hitcher177 g
I was allowed to stay up on a school night as a child to watch his programmes in the 70's. His thoughts are even more relevant today.
Doesn't matter how long he's been gone : he'll always be the best of comedians
Thank you.
Total brilliance and irreplaceable.
Having listened to Dave Allen I did hope he would live to my age and I am 83.
And now you’re 85! I hope!
Its the way he delivers his dialogue which marks him out from the rest, the icing on the cake is the strength of his materiel. Genuis
well...i'm from the states and we watched him growing up...to me he IS a legend but far too many people don't remember him and that is a shame...he was brilliant and as good a comedian as ever lived in my opinion...thanks for posting
Only found out about this guy on UA-cam a couple of days ago - he is BRILLIANT
Onvergetelijk . Die man was geweldig . ❤
Zeker weten! Heb altijd genoten van de shows die in Nederland werden uitgezonden. Dat waren er niet zo veel dacht ik, dus nu heel blij dat ik de rest ook heb kunnen zien
Thank you to the late, great Dave, from somebody whose dark days you always brighten. A Unique soul of genius
Dave Allen is part of my childhood. Hilarious. I remember watching his programme with my father. So tragic he died so young at 68!!
Thanks for Posting Dave..He is sorely missed.
Saw him live donkeys years ago not only was his TV show hilarious but on stage he was a master of his craft.
I was lucky to have seen him in London around 1986. Gee, we could make fun of stuff back then.
He was always the greatest in my
opinion and I loved him and his
Jokes
Hahaha👍👍😂😂
Still the best after all these years!
Good points, fantastic observations of ordinary life.., always in all his work!
There will never be another....
Used to watch Dave Allan as a kid and was in stitches laughing as I am now. Then of course Billy Connolly followed on ❤️
So many of these things ring true to me. I was a child of the 70s and 80s, and I remember...Mum and Dad doing the exact same thing. But I still loved them! It's a wonder we're not all bleeding fruit cakes after what our parents do to us!
The people who hit 'dislike' did so to see if they got a black spot on their tongue.
I hope when I die, I will be in the same part of heaven he is in. So funny!! A true wit!!
This guy was so brilliant in his comedy. I can relate to what he says so much more than the Catholic Church. Great stuff.
Amusingly, I know exactly where he's coming from, since the most devout member of my family, my Grandmother, would have me lie to a local water park about my age when visiting with her to save a buck.
fantastic person dave was
Mine used to do that too but it worked out well. Thanks to all that practice, I can now look anyone straight in the eye and lie my pants off without so much as a grin. Wonderful woman, my mum.
He was just and still is brilliant... his comedy is just as relevant today, we miss him...
Just brilliant 👊 I forgot how good and funny he was 👍🍻
This guy was a genius in his time, and still funny now. Not a swear word to be heard unlike the modern genre.
He swore too. He just used it carefully and in the right places.
He got in trouble one time for "swearing". Anyway, what is a swear word? Words like murder, rape, war all fine, but not words for parts of the body or making love! How strange are so many accepted customs.
Agreed!
😷🌈😀
Oh he swore like a trouper, you just aren't familiar with his full body of work.
Shut up ya little bastard
My dad use to watch dave allen during the 70s and 80s when i was a kid even back then so young i laughed so much. I didnt understand most of his jokes then but his facial expressions and curses were enough to have me in knots.
his sound effects and accents were hreat as well
OH DAVE ,HOW WE DO MISS YEE.
+ian belardine He was so brilliant, cool comic and thanks to youtube we can watch him forever. Love his comedy
one word brilliant
One of the all time great comedians. Genius.
The black spot. Did u come across that. How did he think an english audience would know that. I thought that parenting trick was completly Irish.
my father absolutely loved his show ….well his humour. We live in NZ and tv was still black and white then but he filled it with colour.
i am am a comedy entertainer too and went to see his show and loved it, he was a true funny, genuine entertainer!
so pleased we get to watch these on here, he was great, and so smart too.
His late in life stand up (no clips) is truly the start of observational humour, fantastic brilliant in that time, shame on you BBC
we love you Dave RIP !
Brilliant story teller!😂
Outstanding - funny man. The best ever.
Back in the 80’s and late 90’s most of the shows on tv were so amazing to watch.
he was like james bond of the comic world..class
Trumps nose would be dragging on the ground.
Sheer genius! 🤣... Always a laugh and transcends the years! RIP Dave!. Nuff said!.
a comedy genius thank u for posting
One of the great comedic talents.
Dave Allen,
A Real Comedy Genius, If Around Today He Have To Sware ALL THE Time, Otherwise He Wouldn't Be Seen On Television,. 😀👍🤣😂😆🤣😂😀,.
Comic genius, wouldn't be allowed nowadays, too much honesty!
Why wouldn't it be allowed?
This is one of the ones i actually remember seeing as kid, still so funny.
Sadly what he says is very true.
tells the truth about the world we live in but in a very very funny way.THE BEST.
Poor Dave.....he had such a terrible childhood (it seems) and yet can still make us laugh....what a talent!!!
No, he didn't have a terrible childhood. Remember he's exaggerating for comic effect! Most parents were like that until relatively recently. The people he had problems with were the nuns - "Gestapo in drag"/
dave allen was a brilliant comic
The word genius is always bandied about comedians. But, in this case it is true Dave was a true wordsmith and great orator. His stories were so compelling and you really take notice of what he’s saying. These days all they seem to do is swear.
tellement vrai concernant les "mensonges autorisés" des parents !
I was told pimple on tongue and I’d get one 😂😂😂😂😂
Now this entertainment unlike the dribble of today.
Absolute genius and legend of a comedian, there will never be another like him.
Brilliant, thanks
I love UA-cam. I haven't seen this guy in 30 years.
The man is a genius , different class
No complaints then. We accepted making fun at each other . Be it status, religion family values etc. We all knew where we stood. Now we have the PC brigade (and yes, step in when need be) but ffs. This and other Dave Allen sketches/clips are harmless. Wowwww. I hear you say. "you can't say that, it sounds like you're being prejudice towards people with a dissabilty" Geezz i'm Epileptic and i take the piss out myself with my mates You now get my point. I'm not, and Mr Allen is not also. Lets all lighten up and see fun and banter for what it is, and not what some want it to be.
Amen
In the words of Dave Allen.
"Goodnight, thank you, and may your god go with you"
John mcgowan Not sure you understand what PC means. It means treating people equally, particularly through language, but doesn't preclude joking around as long as the intent is ironic and not meant to malign (but most anti-PC comedians are just too lame and lazy to write a good politically incorrect joke). Dave Allen seems like one of the more PC comedians I've ever seen. It's all about context, intent, and obviously the joke itself. Dave's awesome. Thanks to Stewart Lee for getting me to him.
+Tom McCauley well put, people seem to think p.c. is killing jokes when all it's doing is weeding out the humorless garbage people try to pass off as "jokes", dave allen can get raunchy or "blue" but it's always of a high caliber. the difference being allen was a brilliant humorist not someone with the latest punch down "joke".
Tom McCauley I see...and who gets to decide when something is ironic and therefore acceptable.
John mcgowan well said you!
I constantly see people bitching about it but the only time ive seen it happen was once , just one fucking time , on an online group chat.
If you walked away from Catholic, catch this guy on religion.
Run away.
The little black mark on the tongue got me too. I wouldn't open my mouth.
the one person who didn't like this is prob the head of BBC.
Watching Dave Allen and doing my homework was a typical of my evening when I was a kid. He was always a great way to get laughing.
Watched him in the 90s, late night before bed.
HILARIOUSLY FUNNY !!! R.I.P. DAVE ALLEN. MISSED GREATLY!!
I grew up watching him. Such a great comedian & does cuss constantly.
has there ever been a funnier comedian? never.
Legends always die man, it's definitively the true path to immortality, you're remembered. It's poetry. @Tj01Bond
@sonadagothalus
well no, is would be accurate. He is still a legend as his legendary status is not gone, even though he's dead.
I miss him.
The black spot thing was ironically a lie in itself. XD
When I was little I would answer the phone and say... My papa isn't here!! A lie!!
i'm a very big fan of the late dave allen. i've been watching him since my grandad showed me a show in the early 80's. some people don't like him because he was apparantly anti-church. well,he wasnt i don't think. he had a series nearly every year for 20 years. not many comedians can boast that, and he was supposed to be 'bad' for the BBC. he had alot of complaints but we still found his wit & inteligence somewhat hilarious. so form myself, just to say 'goodnight....and may YOUR god go with you'
I had a similar upbringing: sometimes I'd get tiny spots on my tongue that made my tongue sore: when I told my mother, I got "That's what you get for telling lies"
Dave the Great !!!!
The GOAT in storytelling in my book, no props but his expressions and voices (and, of course, a cigarette and a glass😁)
By
Genius!!
Legendary!!!
I don't know if anyone sensed this, but I do not feel Dave was anti God at all. I feel he was anti religious dogma and hypocrisy. It seemed to me his constant references to and monologue themes about God was revealing a deeper questioning than he cared to admit. Just my opinion.
Haha, my mum used to look at our backs to see if we were lying, and if we were she said there would be a red X on the back. And then once I'd figured it out and because I was the oldest and enjoyed bossing around my younger sisters I'd pull the same trick on them haha
man is a legend
The tragedy is that this is so true.
Dave is the best comic EVER😂😂😂
MAY YOUR GOD GO WITH
dave allen nun better!
Never heard of her, this dave allen nun- and better than whom or what? Is Dave Allen the god in a new religion, worshipped by nuns?
My mum used to catch me whenever lied by asking me to look into her eyes and then tell he that I had done my chores or something I couldn't do it without laughing she always caught me out.
Love his voice
I found out 7 years ago he is funny guy
late night as a teen in the US early 80's for me
@sonadagothalus
no, he would still be a legend, he's just dead but saying "was" a legend would imply that he stopped being a legend, not stopped being alive.
Give it to them Dave😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️
He has had a thousand different stories for how he lost it. No one seems to know the actual answer.
Classy comedian! Funny without coarseness
Dave Allen at Large pure entertainment.
great
Well funny...
R.I.P .....and may you have gone to your God x
He is always smartly dressed - suit,tie & waistcoat and not jeans n T Shirt !
the best