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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 02, 2016, 09:53:03 AM

Title: Dave Allen
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 02, 2016, 09:53:03 AM: Triggered by Anchorman's comment elsewhere mentioning Dave Allen - link to the documentary on him

https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=nznZL6i9_co
Title: Re: Dave Allen
Post by: ekim on November 02, 2016, 03:43:02 PM: .... also..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxo81Ok9Urk&feature=related
Title: Re: Dave Allen
Post by: Anchorman on November 02, 2016, 03:47:25 PM: Can I point out that these Dave Allen clips - along with the fantastic Rikki Fulton's 'I.M.Jolly', formed a module of the course in readership of the Church of Scotland? (enjoyable module, dat....)
Title: Re: Dave Allen
Post by: Anchorman on November 02, 2016, 03:51:06 PM: Get theological...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y__GwjuJ9RE
Title: Re: Dave Allen
Post by: floo on November 02, 2016, 04:21:03 PM: I never found Dave Allen particularly funny in spite of my Irish connections (I have British and Irish nationality).
Title: Re: Dave Allen
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 02, 2016, 08:00:56 PM: Quote from: Floo on November 02, 2016, 04:21:03 PM
I never found Dave Allen particularly funny in spite of my Irish connections (I have British and Irish nationality).

TBH I think you would need to be RC (preferably from Eire rather than GB) to fully appreciate Dave. A bit like Citizen Khan for Irish RC's
Title: Re: Dave Allen
Post by: Brownie on November 02, 2016, 09:12:03 PM: A bit like the popularity of Father Ted amongst Irish Catholics. They 'get' it.
Title: Re: Dave Allen
Post by: Sebastian Toe on November 02, 2016, 09:23:45 PM: Quote from: Floo on November 02, 2016, 04:21:03 PM
I never found Dave Allen particularly funny in spite of my Irish connections (I have British and Irish nationality).
Just out of sheer masochistic curiosity on my part - do you find anybody particularly funny?
Title: Re: Dave Allen
Post by: Anchorman on November 02, 2016, 09:28:38 PM: I hadn't the courage to ask the same thing, Seb! (And you don't have to be a RC to appreciate the genious that was Dave Allen.)