no one old style man around benny hill, dick emery, and older into black and white days What has really happened people no great comedians and don't mention the last 28 years ones 1989 it ended. A Great Laugh can be out of a SIMPLE THING but so called Uni. grads had to come along in Masses so they think they Too Clever (to Laugh. they don't laugh any way. the Work Class Laughed.
I remember as a kid in the seventies when I asked my brother who was reading the TV week book at the time, i said what's on tonight Bill, and he said a brand new series of Dave Allen starts tonight, we got excited I ran over to my sister who was talking to the neighbour at the fence and I told her the good news, and the neighbour said that she also loved Dave Allen, just a little memory from when I was ten,
Dave Allen was a genius best comedian ever to have walked this earth the most hilarious man ever doesn’t matter how many times I watch him I laugh and giggle so much and always will world class comedian missed beyond words 😢x
Never thought I would see this again. Has to be the 1st comedian I ever watched. Used to be on PBS where I grew up. I remember laughing so hard, nothing has changed. Did a search for 9 fingered comedian cause the one joke that stuck with me was where he was stirring his drink with his middle finger and said he used to use his index finger but it ate it off. 😂 shame he is gone RIP.
Why have we become so prudish? We used to watch and laugh our heads off with all of these amazing comedy sketches. We were the lucky generation. Everything is sadly so horribly dull now. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
My mum hated him as she was a catholic and thought he mocked THE CHURCH dreadfully, but now as a VERY liberal catholic myself I find him HILARIOUS ! Sadly missed ! What a wit !
Dave Allen was my all time favourite. I'm 61 now and back in 1972 when Dave Allen At Large was on TV, and I was just a young boy perched in front of the television , my mother if she caught me watching him would switch the TV off as she was a good Catholic woman. But when she left the room I switched it back on again. Lol. God bless her gentle soul and God bless Dave Allen's gentle soul. He still makes me laugh as much now as I did when I was a nine year old boy lol. Oh the memories the memories 😂
A bar I used to hang out years ago always had a small crowd on Sunday nights. If there were more than 5 people there that was a big crowd. Anyway at 10:30 PM the Dave Allen show would come on our Public TV station and we'd all watch it and laugh like hell. Loved the opening sketches and his continual monologue. He was a comedic genius and was taken too soon. RIP Dave and cheers..
@@bobblowhard8823Dave actually reminds me of Rowan Atkinson. Watching these again, i am amazed at how clever the comedy is, and how well it is delivered. Atkinson does that too. True gems…
What a treasure this was! I will save it and let my old da see it. He'll get the references too! But oh... have I learned how to laugh since I first laughed with Dave Allen... Sorrow, hardship and grief do indeed hone humor - and my adult sons don't understand me anymore. They'd better get a grip. Cheers, All!
Seeing this at 59 ..remember at ..from Sweden at 10-11 year and loved his humour, specieally the chirch..I understand him.not eveything but he was ,those who speak out.I new it then and know it now! God Bless kind eyes😊❤.
Now available on the KPM album The Big Beat, reissued thru Tummy Touch a couple years ago (previously unavailable commercially). I got a copy a few days ago, full of memorable themes & killer Hammond organ. The tune is called "Studio 69".
@@Lee-nh5bb Yes, it seems to have that alternate title, I've seen that too, tho on the KPM album it's called Studio 69, probably to appear 'hip' & 'with it' as that's when it was recorded...one heck of an album too!
to this day im 62 and watched Dave all of my life and the one thing that still makes me look twice is his missing finger i cant help it i think he was the first person i saw with a missing body part and i still do a double take
I honestly wonder how that brilliant man got away with some of stuff he did, I still miss is humour I've never found anyone or heard anyone like him? He was the best and still is. We'll what ever God he's with I bet that great man is making him laugh.
Dylan Thomas, a fellow celt, said, "An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do." I do hope I quoted him correctly as six pints of orange juice and the kiwi shots have left me confused.
In my time i have seen comedy provide us with great laughter and social comentary which has been a vehicle to aid awareness and be more accepting of each other, comedy is a great way of breaking down barriers and causing us to take a look at ourselves while providing great laughter and entertainment. Wokeism sadly shuts down and kills humour and leaves isues festering and unadressed. Woke stupidity makes us angry and problems worse. I am a European who has lived in india, speaks Hindi and has earnt the right to speak in an indian accent, my Indian friends love it!! but the woke wankers say I cannot speak in another accent that is not the same as my skin colour. Does this mean Indians should no longer be allowed to speak English??? Dave Allen had a brilliant comedic mind and gifted us with laughter and entertainment the likes of which we might never be allowed to see again if wokes gain too much traction. Wokeism is sad and serious and wears the face of a smacked arse.
The running out of the library to scream in pain sketch reminds me of Tom in Tom and Jerry when hed run out of the house and up a nearby hill to scream before coming back to try and catch Jerry again.
The Leprechaun joke I heard in a different way: A woman was in an ugly divorce and decided that she needed a break from all that. So she booked a vacation to a tropical island. While she walked down the shore and admiring the beautiful sunset, her feet suddenly hit some solid item. She looked down and found a mysterious bottle at her feet, half buried in the sand. She picked it up and found that It looked like it was very old. When she looked closer, it was like there was a kind of misty swirl inside of the bottle. So she took the bottle with her to her hotel room. There she opened the bottle, and the misty swirl came out of the bottle and spoke to her. "I am the genie of this bottle, I have been locked inside of this bottle by an evil sorcerer. I don't even remember how many centuries I have been locked inside this bottle. But the moment I was locked in I made a vow that whatever person would set me free, I would grand them three wishes." The woman thought about that and, being aware that people who get all their wishes granted are not nessicarily the better off, asked the genie "what is the downpart of this deal?" The genie, who had at that time understood that she was smart, replied : "Whatever you wish for... your husband gets DOUBLE because the two of you are still legally married." The woman thought some more and then said: "I want a 2 million dollar house at the ocean, with all the luxuries that all the Jet Set people have". The genie handed her the appropiate papers of ownership etc. Meanwhile her husband was astonished to find TWO sets of ownership documents of Jet Set beach houses... "Wish numer 2" said the genie. "Okay," the woman said, "I want a treasure chest that, no matter how much money I take out of it, will never have less than 2 million dollars inside". Instantly she had that chest, while her husband was very surprised to find TWO chests at his appartment, each labelled "never emptying treasure chest"... "third and last wish" said the genie. The woman thought hard and deep about that final wish. She thought about her marriage. About what she had invested in it. Paying for his scholarship. Trying to make ends meet. Spending everything she had to make him happy. And finding she had been replaced by a younger woman who had all the traits that she herself once had. Before she gave everything to him... A smile appeared on her face. It spread all over her body and the entire room, when she replied to the genie: "Scare me HALF to death!"
And to think at the time, many found this controversial. I loved this show as a kid, and I'm laughing just as hard now. Dave Allen was a comedy genius!
Brilliant mind is self aware without losing integrity or going insane when dealt blow its all been done. Hard to imagine another. A great coup for Ireland if he was actually their leader. Because kept out of violence people followed kept up competition standard. Since he went from our sight but only that his predictions of mayhem stupidity were fulfilled simply because he held an iron rod. Kindness with firmness sensitivity as he could empathise with less able and certain women hoped he would role model a large sector of men. I feel no emptiness as he gave the lot. If he was a bit of God we won't know until we become that. He did it all with ease. Everyone adored his show. Xxxxx
Referred to Dave st my fathers eulogy this week he was 91, Dave was a classic
University in the 70’s. We raced home on Wednesday to watch this. Laughed our heads off. ❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely hilarious. Comedy genius at its best. I used to watch it back then, still as funny now!!
52 years later his sense of humour is still brilliant. If I need a lift in spirits,I watch him. Sadly missed but at least we can watch him here.
The guy was a genius at telling a story, he brought you right into the story till the end, and you thought you bugger
So much better than the so called comics we have to put up with today . Old school is best.😊😊
I’m 52 & discovering this for the first time 😂🤘
If only life were really like this all the time. I miss Dave Allen.
Me too. The only priest joke I ever memorized came from him - when I was a teenager.
yea those were the great days
I remember watching Dave Allen with my parents when I was a teenager. Loved him then and still crack up laughing now ❤️
Same! He was brilliant.
Good old days sadly mist 😊
My dad loved this comedian he watched it everytime it's was on dave allen is and was a legend
52 years old and still funny from a comedy genius
57 and I never missed it as a kid. I would watch him after Benny Hill. If only my parents knew what I was watching that late at night....
@@donnwonderling Oh yes the great Benny Hill
59 and likewise
Hysterical 😂these jokes wouldn’t be allowed today of course
Love Dave Allen, wish he was still around.
no one old style man around benny hill, dick emery, and older into black and white days What has really happened people no great comedians and don't mention the last 28 years ones 1989 it ended. A Great Laugh can be out of a SIMPLE THING but so called Uni. grads had to come along in Masses so they think they Too Clever (to Laugh. they don't laugh any way. the Work Class Laughed.
Me too
Yes, indeed.
He was epic.
He will be cancelled in a heart beat
@@waliahmadwali1012001 Sadly you are probably correct.
I remember as a kid in the seventies when I asked my brother who was reading the TV week book at the time, i said what's on tonight Bill, and he said a brand new series of Dave Allen starts tonight, we got excited I ran over to my sister who was talking to
the neighbour at the fence and I told her the good news, and the neighbour said that she also loved Dave Allen, just a little memory from when I was ten,
I love it too. In Australia it was always on a Friday night and I was allowed to stay up late to watch it. Those were the days! 😁
@@tricia359Same here. It was on after the Two Ronnie's...
@@1965wazza good times!
Much loved and sadly mist .thank you for your talent you have made my guts acks with laughter and I thank you for that . God bless x R.I.P❤❤😊😊
Brilliant entertainer. He was an extremely funny man. I was in love with him. So handsome.
Dave Allen was a genius best comedian ever to have walked this earth the most hilarious man ever doesn’t matter how many times I watch him I laugh and giggle so much and always will world class comedian missed beyond words 😢x
A local station (Seattle) used to play these in the early 1980s. Love seeing them again.
So happy that this man is available on utube. Watched every show when I was younger. I had a huge crush on this man.
so did I
I only just found Dave Allen this week. WHAT CLASS.
Best Christmas scheduling ever was when they put Dave Allen on virtually every night.
Wish they would do it again
dave you were one funny guy we just haven't got comedy like it now may your god go with you rip were ever you are
Timeless comedy.
Thank you David Tynan O'Mahony, and good night.
Never thought I would see this again. Has to be the 1st comedian I ever watched. Used to be on PBS where I grew up. I remember laughing so hard, nothing has changed. Did a search for 9 fingered comedian cause the one joke that stuck with me was where he was stirring his drink with his middle finger and said he used to use his index finger but it ate it off. 😂 shame he is gone RIP.
Why have we become so prudish? We used to watch and laugh our heads off with all of these amazing comedy sketches. We were the lucky generation. Everything is sadly so horribly dull now. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
My mum hated him as she was a catholic and thought he mocked THE CHURCH dreadfully, but now as a VERY liberal catholic myself I find him HILARIOUS !
Sadly missed ! What a wit !
I so LOVE Dave Allen's humour .... hilarious.
Awesome sketches, Allen was an amazing presenter of comedy, great charisma..jousting on trains!!!
Dave Allen was my all time favourite. I'm 61 now and back in 1972 when Dave Allen At Large was on TV, and I was just a young boy perched in front of the television , my mother if she caught me watching him would switch the TV off as she was a good Catholic woman. But when she left the room I switched it back on again. Lol. God bless her gentle soul and God bless Dave Allen's gentle soul. He still makes me laugh as much now as I did when I was a nine year old boy lol. Oh the memories the memories 😂
"Good night, and may your god go with you."
I love that double meaning!
+selvmordspilot Good Night & May your God Go With You,!!
gremlinuk1968 I have no god..... And isn't just that divinity, that there are gods, but no God?
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How sane the 1970's world was. Glad I lived through it. Dave Allen if you've reincarnated please come out to play again. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🧙😂
Oh yes please. 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
Absolute genius, I'm.60 and I watched him,I get it more now,I was only about 10,ridiculously funny
And jokes could be made without self-righteous folks getting their panties in a bunch. I LOVED seeing the world through comedian's eyes, and still do.
Thanks for the memories of really great comedy.
Absolute genius, and sadly missed the world over
Watched and thoroughly enjoyed his show when it was on television. Great storyteller.
A bar I used to hang out years ago always had a small crowd on Sunday nights. If there were more than 5 people there that was a big crowd. Anyway at 10:30 PM the Dave Allen show would come on our Public TV station and we'd all watch it and laugh like hell. Loved the opening sketches and his continual monologue. He was a comedic genius and was taken too soon. RIP Dave and cheers..
Great comedian and storyteller.
And no political nonsense. Love this man.
Still funny today. Genius.
I love Dave Allen ❤️❤️❤️he was and is the best of the best😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
50 years later and he still makes me laugh
Hard to believe that this was over half a century ago.
I loved his shows. Brilliant! 🤩
And no swearing in those days...
The man was a comic god sadly missed rip
Still one of the funniest men alive or dead.
Great storyteller, great comedian, and also very good looking guy 😊
No-one evens comes close to Dave 😊 His style was so subtle and clever.
Except perhaps Benny Hill, the crew of "Monty Python's Flying Circus", and Rowan Atkinson.
@@bobblowhard8823Dave actually reminds me of Rowan Atkinson. Watching these again, i am amazed at how clever the comedy is, and how well it is delivered. Atkinson does that too. True gems…
Gosh. Miss this intelligent guy. X
I really wish they would release a complete remastered dvd collection of Dave Allen.
They did.
Fabulous timing.A true genius.
I remember watching him as a kid along with Benny Hill, back in the 80s, in the US
I remember a Benny Hill sketch where he spoofs Dave Allen. I haven't seen it in years & I'm trying to find it here on TH-cam.
Dave Allen,
Thanks for yet another programme of fun and humour!
how can anyone not like this, pure genius
Thank you so much for this. I was 7 when this aired, my mum loved Dave Allen & this is such a gift to see over 50 years later, blessings from Belfast.
What a treasure this was! I will save it and let my old da see it. He'll get the references too! But oh... have I learned how to laugh since I first laughed with Dave Allen... Sorrow, hardship and grief do indeed hone humor - and my adult sons don't understand me anymore. They'd better get a grip. Cheers, All!
Seeing this at 59 ..remember at ..from Sweden at 10-11 year and loved his humour, specieally the chirch..I understand him.not eveything but he was ,those who speak out.I new it then and know it now! God Bless kind eyes😊❤.
Such a shame comedy is dead in the water now. Loved revisiting these. Something actually made me laugh.
The train joust was excellent, love these!
When I first saw Dave back then, I had never seen anything so funny in my life
Must be one of the coolest, most memorable music intros of all time!
Now available on the KPM album The Big Beat, reissued thru Tummy Touch a couple years ago (previously unavailable commercially). I got a copy a few days ago, full of memorable themes & killer Hammond organ. The tune is called "Studio 69".
@@ChrisMezzolesta I had heard it called " Blarney's Stoned. "
@@Lee-nh5bb Yes, it seems to have that alternate title, I've seen that too, tho on the KPM album it's called Studio 69, probably to appear 'hip' & 'with it' as that's when it was recorded...one heck of an album too!
@@ChrisMezzolesta Sounds like a groovy album! 🎶 I love music from the 60s and 70s. Do you reckon that Dave is the blarney that's stoned?
Used to love his show as a kid and it's still the best.
I've never seen this series so thank you. Hard to believe it's so long ago.
One of the best comedians ever.
Still watching a 87 years old.
Wonderful human being Dave Allen was! - May his memory live on forever! 👍
Australia. All pommy comedy shows were so good back in 1970ts. To many of them to mention, i always loved their work. 😊
Pure genius!
and he was such a handsome fellow
Funny, but the only sketch i remembered was the one with the cannibals. Sure miss classic comedy shows like this. Bless you for uploading.
Dave Allen is just pure genius👍
Boom !
If you drink whiskey you’ll never get worms! 😂
So glad we have videos as sadly he is gone and tv doesnt show him😢
God I loved it when he did the drunk impersonations.
Thanks for uploading these dude.
I have been looking for him for years. I couldn't remember his name but remembered it was a British show.
to this day im 62 and watched Dave all of my life and the one thing that still makes me look twice is his missing finger i cant help it i think he was the first person i saw with a missing body part and i still do a double take
I never noticed it before. Now I have to re-watch it 😂.
@@teresahooks3746 its the forefinger on his left hand the one he would pick his nose with if he was a lefty
@@peterjeffery1854 😅
I honestly wonder how that brilliant man got away with some of stuff he did, I still miss is humour I've never found anyone or heard anyone like him? He was the best and still is. We'll what ever God he's with I bet that great man is making him laugh.
Here lies the very heart of every Irish and Scottish and more of comedians, since the 1960s just saying xxx AM I WRONG?
This young Irishman is a great storyteller 🎭📗
Used to watch him all the time, glad he's on utube, in my 60's now
Yes he was Brilliant,sadly missed ,Ireland 2024
The man, the myth, the legend..........god bless you dave........and may your god go with you;)
Grabbing a utube tune in 2024, getting drunk until you receive your next delivery at your front door.
Oh my God, i was 10 yrs old yet i still remember the Charlie and Pope ioke, which means i haven't totally lost my marbles....yet.
this is 50, 60 years ago... classic
Top man! Always loved his dress sense.
love him, he's a genius
Dylan Thomas, a fellow celt, said, "An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do."
I do hope I quoted him correctly as six pints of orange juice and the kiwi shots have left me confused.
Language..... He's a master at tying your tongue. Amazing.
An evening with Dave Allen and Tim Conway, count me in 😂
A great storyteller.
use to watch it when I was a kid on pbs, very fun stuff.
The Gentle Wit that burst the bubble of Irish Religon on both sides . God, I believe In Dave Allen .
I have LISTENED to Dave Allen many times. This is the first time I am noticing that he is missing the top half of his Left Index Finger.
My preferred comedian
Pure gold
In my time i have seen comedy provide us with great laughter and social comentary which has been a vehicle to aid awareness and be more accepting of each other, comedy is a great way of breaking down barriers and causing us to take a look at ourselves while providing great laughter and entertainment.
Wokeism sadly shuts down and kills humour and leaves isues festering and unadressed. Woke stupidity makes us angry and problems worse.
I am a European who has lived in india, speaks Hindi and has earnt the right to speak in an indian accent, my Indian friends love it!! but the woke wankers say I cannot speak in another accent that is not the same as my skin colour.
Does this mean Indians should no longer be allowed to speak English???
Dave Allen had a brilliant comedic mind and gifted us with laughter and entertainment the likes of which we might never be allowed to see again if wokes gain too much traction.
Wokeism is sad and serious and wears the face of a smacked arse.
The running out of the library to scream in pain sketch reminds me of Tom in Tom and Jerry when hed run out of the house and up a nearby hill to scream before coming back to try and catch Jerry again.
Thank you, i have so much fun ☺️
Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!!
The Leprechaun joke I heard in a different way:
A woman was in an ugly divorce and decided that she needed a break from all that. So she booked a vacation to a tropical island. While she walked down the shore and admiring the beautiful sunset, her feet suddenly hit some solid item. She looked down and found a mysterious bottle at her feet, half buried in the sand. She picked it up and found that It looked like it was very old. When she looked closer, it was like there was a kind of misty swirl inside of the bottle. So she took the bottle with her to her hotel room. There she opened the bottle, and the misty swirl came out of the bottle and spoke to her. "I am the genie of this bottle, I have been locked inside of this bottle by an evil sorcerer. I don't even remember how many centuries I have been locked inside this bottle. But the moment I was locked in I made a vow that whatever person would set me free, I would grand them three wishes."
The woman thought about that and, being aware that people who get all their wishes granted are not nessicarily the better off, asked the genie "what is the downpart of this deal?"
The genie, who had at that time understood that she was smart, replied : "Whatever you wish for... your husband gets DOUBLE because the two of you are still legally married."
The woman thought some more and then said:
"I want a 2 million dollar house at the ocean, with all the luxuries that all the Jet Set people have". The genie handed her the appropiate papers of ownership etc. Meanwhile her husband was astonished to find TWO sets of ownership documents of Jet Set beach houses...
"Wish numer 2" said the genie. "Okay," the woman said, "I want a treasure chest that, no matter how much money I take out of it, will never have less than 2 million dollars inside". Instantly she had that chest, while her husband was very surprised to find TWO chests at his appartment, each labelled "never emptying treasure chest"...
"third and last wish" said the genie. The woman thought hard and deep about that final wish. She thought about her marriage. About what she had invested in it. Paying for his scholarship. Trying to make ends meet. Spending everything she had to make him happy. And finding she had been replaced by a younger woman who had all the traits that she herself once had. Before she gave everything to him...
A smile appeared on her face. It spread all over her body and the entire room, when she replied to the genie:
"Scare me HALF to death!"
ks for all these videos
And to think at the time, many found this controversial. I loved this show as a kid, and I'm laughing just as hard now. Dave Allen was a comedy genius!
Brilliant mind is self aware without losing integrity or going insane when dealt blow its all been done. Hard to imagine another. A great coup for Ireland if he was actually their leader. Because kept out of violence people followed kept up competition standard. Since he went from our sight but only that his predictions of mayhem stupidity were fulfilled simply because he held an iron rod. Kindness with firmness sensitivity as he could empathise with less able and certain women hoped he would role model a large sector of men. I feel no emptiness as he gave the lot. If he was a bit of God we won't know until we become that. He did it all with ease. Everyone adored his show. Xxxxx
watch any of his shows over and over again......you'll still be laughing....
God how we need someone like this nowadays, not sure ho it would travel nowadays though.