i respectfully disagree, this man was absolutely of his time, and i believe we should all look back to it for inspiration moving forward. i do agree with you on one point, however, RIP.
I absolutely adore Dave Allen. I remember as a young kid sitting down to watch his show with mum,dad and my siblings. When he was telling his stories, you wouldn’t here a peep out of us kids, as we were held mesmerised on every word, until the punchline and we’d all roar with laughter. Thank you Dave Allen for all your stories and comedy. You will be forever in my heart.
And all his humour was clean. No unnecessary swear words that so many comedians feel they have to litter their jokes with. Just good, clean funny material.
Dave Allen was the best story teller I've ever seen. Inspired by this, in the early 80s I told a ghost story like this (not the same one) to a group of students late at night on a study trip to a remote house on the Yorkshire Moors. I used very similar techniques to Dave Allen (lights off, torch between my knees, gradual lowering of the voice to a whisper) in a very intimate environment and, at the climax of the joke, almost all the students came close to soiling their underwear. Unfortunately, word got back to my department and I was advised (under pain of the removal of my academic tenure) not to do it again. But it was funny.
I remember him appearing on a TV chat show at Halloween one year. The interviewer gave him a ghost story to read. He read it brilliantly. The studio lights slowly dimmed while he read. It was atmospheric, enthralling, spellbinding. The studio audience was silent, hanging on his every word. He reached the final page. It was missing . . . .
I've been looking for this for decades, I'm not kidding! All I remembered from my boyhood was the punchline. And just found out, after all these years... it was a 9 and not a 4. With Mr. Allen, it was all in the delivery.
TOTALLY BRILLANT !!!!!! I REMEBER WATCHING WITH GREAT INTENSE !!! AND GOT A BOLTED SURPRISE !!!! ROCKED WITH LAUGHTER !!!!!!! R.I.P. DAVE ALLEN . GREATEST IRISH MAN WHO WAS SO HILARIOUS & FUNNY !!!!!! BLESS HIM . FROM U.K. (2021).
He was such a straightforward, personable man, but it's so cool that he could secure a swish theme tune, don a sharp suit, take a seat, light a cigarette and capture a studio and television audience just by speaking.
An amazing comedian who tells a story about anything really, and tells it in such a way that you can’t help but hang on every word. I grew up watching Mr. Allan and now have the opportunity to hear it as an adult and “get the many jokes” I surely missed when I watched it the first time, at an age range of 7~11. Cheers
Love it! If you've ever heard 'the tennis ball joke', it's of the same variety. I just love it for the amazing quality of the storytelling. It takes real skill to bring a captive audience into a story like that; to create intimacy in an otherwise very 'public' environment. Fantastic!!
Was a huge fan "back then" and he still makes me shriek with laughter now. One of the best comedian's ever. Eat your hearts out the pathetic ones today!
I was 12 or 13 when I started watching Dave Allen at large. I would watch Mary Hartman Mary Hartman before this show. He remains my favorite story teller. Brilliant '
I remember having the privilege of watching him live on stage. Apart from a twenty minute break just past the middle, he did four hours solid and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. The tears of laughter were streaming down our faces.
Think this was from Dave Allen at Large ,back in the mid 70s, remember watching as a lad , he would be sat down with a table next to him with a tumbler of what looked like whisky, and a tab on the go ..it was unmissable back in the day, brilliant stuff !
One of the best comedian's ever, he had a way of making you laugh so much it hurt, and he never laughed at his own jokes & stories. Miss him so much, comedians today are just not funny. R.I.P Dave your fans will never forget you. 😍😍🤣🤣
I will always hold this gentleman in high esteem, class personified. I remember Dad and I watching this when I was a pup, quietly so Mum wouldn't bollock us both 😅
Many years ago, I'd taken a group of students on a retreat to do some in depth study. We were staying in an old farmhouse and late in the evening, somebody asked if it was haunted and the conversation turned to ghosts. I'd seen Dave do this on TV and decided to tell a different story in the same style, pretending it was true. After 10 minutes, they were all on edge and I delivered the punch line. The punch line of mine was (in a weird unearthly voice) "I'm not a little girl, I'm a ...at which point I shouted at the top of my voice and leapt towards the students. They all jumped about 4 feet in the air. None of them would sleep that night. Two had to go back to the campus. And I was banned from ever telling any more ghost stories. Dave Allen was an utter comic genius and the best story teller of all time.
He's irish and they tell the best stories. Mu dad was Irish and used to tell us such wonderful stories. I thought Dave Allen was the handsomest man I'd ever seen. And the funniest. Don't make them like him anymore
God doesn't make such witty storytellers and comics anymore, does He? 😅 Really admire this man ❤️ Being from Gen Z, I really wish my generation gets a taste of this rather than shoddy, tasteless comedies we see today 🤦♂️
You must be. Dave Allen was an absolute genius. If you don’t get it, you never will. You have to have sarcastic wit in your genes. I’m a Pomie. This sort of humour is English through and through. Love British humour. 🥰😂
One of the great .....clean humour❤
Sadly missed, but we can still enjoy his timeless humor.
I lived many years in Ireland and never heard of him. It is a joy to listen to his jokes and observing his style.
Dave was absolute class one. 😉
No one will ever take his place. Dave Allen was way ahead of his time. RIP Dave, an absolute legend.
i respectfully disagree, this man was absolutely of his time, and i believe we should all look back to it for inspiration moving forward. i do agree with you on one point, however, RIP.
A great story teller and wit - he shall be missed.
I absolutely adore Dave Allen. I remember as a young kid sitting down to watch his show with mum,dad and my siblings. When he was telling his stories, you wouldn’t here a peep out of us kids, as we were held mesmerised on every word, until the punchline and we’d all roar with laughter. Thank you Dave Allen for all your stories and comedy. You will be forever in my heart.
And all his humour was clean. No unnecessary swear words that so many comedians feel they have to litter their jokes with. Just good, clean funny material.
He was absolutely the best. I remember watching all his shows, the whole family did. He was/still is so funny. He remains, to my mind, the best ever.
Dave Allen was the best story teller I've ever seen.
Inspired by this, in the early 80s I told a ghost story like this (not the same one) to a group of students late at night on a study trip to a remote house on the Yorkshire Moors.
I used very similar techniques to Dave Allen (lights off, torch between my knees, gradual lowering of the voice to a whisper) in a very intimate environment and, at the climax of the joke, almost all the students came close to soiling their underwear.
Unfortunately, word got back to my department and I was advised (under pain of the removal of my academic tenure) not to do it again.
But it was funny.
Good for you. Sounds like your story came close to the divine Mr Allen's. XX ❤❤
I would have loved to hear him read classic horror stories. He has an amazing voice.
Brilliant!
dave allen reads edgar allen poe
what could be better?
manchesterblue2007 Dave Allen readings of Edgar Allen Poe’s poems
I remember him appearing on a TV chat show at Halloween one year. The interviewer gave him a ghost story to read. He read it brilliantly. The studio lights slowly dimmed while he read. It was atmospheric, enthralling, spellbinding. The studio audience was silent, hanging on his every word. He reached the final page. It was missing . . . .
A great comedian. Story teller. His sketches. Was amazing Loved watching this mans pure wit. Both myself and my husband thought he was a comic genius.
He surely was. One of the greatest of all time!
One of those jokes you wish you could tell but can't. Class😂
After all these years I still remember that joke told so masterfully by Dave. Could anyone else have made it work so well. A classic.
😂😂😂😂 the man was a genius
I've been looking for this for decades, I'm not kidding! All I remembered from my boyhood was the punchline. And just found out, after all these years... it was a 9 and not a 4.
With Mr. Allen, it was all in the delivery.
He was absolutely superb at story telling!! 👍
What a great voice, and an amazing story teller. Pace, tone, he had it all. He would have been awesome on radio, especially a horror show I think.
what an orator he was !!
The master, no other word for him, loved watching him since I was a kid
A real legend !
TOTALLY BRILLANT !!!!!! I REMEBER WATCHING WITH GREAT INTENSE !!! AND GOT A BOLTED SURPRISE !!!! ROCKED WITH LAUGHTER !!!!!!! R.I.P. DAVE ALLEN . GREATEST IRISH MAN WHO WAS SO HILARIOUS & FUNNY !!!!!! BLESS HIM . FROM U.K. (2021).
He could tell a tale. Used to scare the bejesus out of me when I was a kid.
Dave Allen and Billy Connolly were in their different ways, masters of telling a comedic story. We miss you Dave, and Billy, I hope you are well.
I miss Dave Allen so much, he was the funniest man ever born.
When did he die?
@@DJYAD19 when he stopped breathing
@@shtcare Which year?
@@shtcare lol
Same year he stopped breathing. Weird coincidence eh?
A chilling tale from a master storyteller, with a comic twist in the tail.
Such happy memories of watching Dave Allen as a child with my family. Oh to go back for just one more of those nights ❤
He was such a straightforward, personable man, but it's so cool that he could secure a swish theme tune, don a sharp suit, take a seat, light a cigarette and capture a studio and television audience just by speaking.
Probably walked Vegas if he wasn't so cynical of it all
What a legend he was brilliant RIP 🙏 Dave Allen
Brilliant Dave 1 of the best r.i.p
An amazing comedian who tells a story about anything really, and tells it in such a way that you can’t help but hang on every word.
I grew up watching Mr. Allan and now have the opportunity to hear it as an adult and “get the many jokes” I surely missed when I watched it the first time, at an age range of 7~11.
Cheers
brill, the best at his trade , no one does it like Dave , and no one has ,
or ever will be able to
or ever will be able to
pogue muhhon Bravo, well said!😃
GOT TO LAUGH. MY ENGLISH IS SO PERFECT NO ONE SUSPECTS I AM IRISH! LIKE MY NAME IS NOT A CLUE. WE LOVE STORIES AND WE LOVE THE CRAIC ...
Love it! If you've ever heard 'the tennis ball joke', it's of the same variety. I just love it for the amazing quality of the storytelling. It takes real skill to bring a captive audience into a story like that; to create intimacy in an otherwise very 'public' environment. Fantastic!!
legend
As a kid (and an adult) I thought this was such a great and ultimately funny story. As a storyteller Dave Allen had no peer
That's how you sell a horror story.
Was a huge fan "back then" and he still makes me shriek with laughter now. One of the best comedian's ever. Eat your hearts out the pathetic ones today!
Best of all is, he makes you forget it is a joke.
Heard him tell that story so many times and I always laugh . Brilliant comedian
What's it about? I didn't quite catch the punchline.
yeah me 2 lol so if someone would kindly explain it twould be greatfully appreciated
@@proculusjulius7035
I was 12 or 13 when I started watching Dave Allen at large. I would watch Mary Hartman Mary Hartman before this show. He remains my favorite story teller. Brilliant '
I remember watching this on TV, can’t remember when... 80s? The punchline was burned in my memory!
And into the sole of your shoe, presumably...
I still remember him telling this story when I was a kid in the 70s I never forgot this particular story 😱😀
Bloody brilliant!
I used to love these stories when I was a kid, brilliant
Legend
this scared me at 12 yrs old and still gets me at 45 ,the excellent mr dave allen, still missed in 2014.
still missed in 2017 --I NEED some laughs to offset the horror of Donald J. Trump here in America
Me too! I was totally absorbed into it, what a great story teller!
And still, in 2019.
@car ger hey..i like science fiction; too..but where TF are you getting your information from?? Doofy is a YUUUUGE sell out!
car ger nonsense
I remember having the privilege of watching him live on stage. Apart from a twenty minute break just past the middle, he did four hours solid and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. The tears of laughter were streaming down our faces.
I always remember this sketch from when I was a boy, i used to tell it at school and try to sound like him. Legend .
I love you Dave Rip
Fantastic!
rip dave u are a legend
LEGEND, 👏👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Classic Dave!
I've always loved this story. Dave Allen told it better than no other...
So mis him very clever man ❤
Dammmnn. ...!!! Everyone's asleep here ..n I just burst out laughing
My favorite monologue
What a wonderful comedian. Well missed. We need more "Dave Allens".
Agreed
Dylan Moran, good comedian
Today's generation couldn't cope with a Dave Allen.
Still missed in 2021
Brilliant raconteur
Love 😍 him! Robin Williams (manic mode) was hilarious too. Just nuts. 😆
Amei! ❤
Fresh, like they were told today.
been looking for this for over 30 years! thanks.
Think this was from Dave Allen at Large ,back in the mid 70s, remember watching as a lad , he would be sat down with a table next to him with a tumbler of what looked like whisky, and a tab on the go ..it was unmissable back in the day, brilliant stuff !
phil osophical...I recall seeing some of his shows likewise...Early mid 70s if memory serves...
And a cigarette. ....
@@ericscaillet2232 yes mate, a"tab", English slang for a cigarette
One of the best comedian's ever, he had a way of making you laugh so much it hurt, and he never laughed at his own jokes & stories. Miss him so much, comedians today are just not funny. R.I.P Dave your fans will never forget you. 😍😍🤣🤣
What a brilliant story teller Allen was , rip.
I will always hold this gentleman in high esteem, class personified. I remember Dad and I watching this when I was a pup, quietly so Mum wouldn't bollock us both 😅
Date Allen was a one off. Very funny man R. I. P
Many years ago, I'd taken a group of students on a retreat to do some in depth study.
We were staying in an old farmhouse and late in the evening, somebody asked if it was haunted and the conversation turned to ghosts. I'd seen Dave do this on TV and decided to tell a different story in the same style, pretending it was true. After 10 minutes, they were all on edge and I delivered the punch line. The punch line of mine was (in a weird unearthly voice) "I'm not a little girl, I'm a ...at which point I shouted at the top of my voice and leapt towards the students. They all jumped about 4 feet in the air.
None of them would sleep that night. Two had to go back to the campus.
And I was banned from ever telling any more ghost stories.
Dave Allen was an utter comic genius and the best story teller of all time.
Simply put...Dave Allen was a funny man!
Wow, I remember this when it was on TV, love Dave Allen, he was a treasure!
He's irish and they tell the best stories. Mu dad was Irish and used to tell us such wonderful stories. I thought Dave Allen was the handsomest man I'd ever seen. And the funniest. Don't make them like him anymore
Lol u right they have the gift of the gob and the charm
Gab not the gob!
He's mother was English
Comic Genius
Hilarious loved the end
He is awesome. He has that Hopkins power but he does it live!
Still makes me laugh even though you know its coming for the 100th time =,D
A rare good memory with the old man,on the telly.
I could see the punchline coming a mile away, but his delivery was spot on, making it funny regardless.
thanks so much for posting this masterpiece from this so very great man
Dave Allen use to tell great goast and horror stories and he make the noise to
This man has the most captivating magnetism I have ever seen. Thank God he dismissed religion otherwise his new church would have us lined up.
LOL!!!
My favourite Dave Allen ghost story was the Devil taking the man's humph. I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Brilliant - had tingles going up and down my spine because I've had a few supernatural experiences myself - and then came the hilarious punchline.
Haven is at peace…. I can see st.Peter just laughing his ass off at his jokes!! R.I.P. Dave.😂😂😂😂😂😂
No one comes close!
He's the funnyest man ever the best.
It was a cute anticlimax.
Yes that was a brilliant ghost story but the size 9 put the cap on it
It seems a stereotype that us Irish can tell a story with ease. When I try to tell a story I either A get lost off or B nobody listens lol 🤣
Hahahahaha same though
AdamJBChef Dave was a master may he rest in peace ❤️
So....he put the message in the wrong shoe?
Either that or I'm missing the punchline.
Anyone?
God doesn't make such witty storytellers and comics anymore, does He? 😅
Really admire this man ❤️
Being from Gen Z, I really wish my generation gets a taste of this rather than shoddy, tasteless comedies we see today 🤦♂️
😨😁👍👏
I don’t get it? Can someone explain the punchline?
Allan Partridge
so dave called on the BOGGYMAN TO STAY IN THE ROOM < R.I.P DAVE YOU WERE GREAT TO WATCH.
Never wear size 9....
Am I be the only one on Earth who doesn't get this joke?...
It would take a bit to explain. ...let's just keep it at size 9😉
There was supposed to be a message on the shoe. It didn't quite go as planned .
You must be. Dave Allen was an absolute genius. If you don’t get it, you never will. You have to have sarcastic wit in your genes. I’m a Pomie. This sort of humour is English through and through. Love British humour. 🥰😂
I thought it was Irish
Lol.
Can someone explain the joke.i didn't get it.
Everyone else seems to get the joke. Im lost