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Nearly Sane

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Dave Allen
« 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
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Re: Dave Allen
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2016, 03:43:02 PM »
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Anchorman

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Re: Dave Allen
« Reply #2 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....)
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Re: Dave Allen
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2016, 03:51:06 PM »
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"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Dave Allen
« Reply #4 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).
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Re: Dave Allen
« Reply #5 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
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Re: Dave Allen
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2016, 09:12:03 PM »
A bit like the popularity of Father Ted amongst Irish Catholics.  They 'get' it.
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Re: Dave Allen
« Reply #7 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?
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Re: Dave Allen
« Reply #8 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.)
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