Parkinson BBC Dave Allen 80s

[Foloman1]

"Gestapo in drag."  Great line.

[holicat098]

i love this guy!

[ChibukuBeer]

Wonderful. This is almost a repeat of my own first day at school and subsequent truancy.

[chubbylilloser85]

DAve allen = God

Parkinson = talentless tit 

[aplantage]

Thanks very much for posting this. Apart from being one of the funniest, Allen was one of the few comedians who was an attractive man. And I'm such a sucker for suits. :-) Reminds me a bit of The Rat Pack. He wasn't easily embarrassed about anything, but when he told a joke that was a bit flat, he'd smile about it almost sheepishly. It was his charm that allowed him to get away even with bad jokes, whether offensive or silly.

[billyconnearly]

I absolutely LOVED school - until I realised it was every fuckin' day!!! Bollox to that! Real life is better!!

[leafyutube]

I wouldn`t mind going to school with nuns if the nuns were attractive.

[katherine3486]

Wish I could see what's funny wen other emotions take over!

[jerramy]

I also saw him in Australia and he was able to talk about anything and make it funny. He is so talented that he sees the funny side of everything. Things that make us angry or hurt or frustrated just makes him laugh.

[redfenderguy]

and sadly hes no longer with us. dave allen was brilliant

[plotchickens]

thats your opinion.

[redfenderguy]

whats that suppose to meen? dave allen is dead now. it was not an opinion but what is fact. weres the problem in my coment????????

[plotchickens]

he was alcoholic and rude to fans ..... rude to me, but i was young and used to like autographs. now i just like to shake hands with the person, autographs mean nothing.

[redfenderguy]

dont worry about it. my my point still stands i said he was brilliant meening what we saw of  him on tv. how ever he went on in real life is relivant

[donnyab]

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[MidnightCarp]

One of the greats - - my parents say him in the 70s in Australia doing a gig, the best show they ever saw. He just sat there and told gag after gag.

[narlacat68]

Catgirl I find that quite ironic, America was then just about as racist as it could get- in some parts of America even today it is racism at its finest-

[TheCatgirl6]

I take your point about the irony, narlacat: for sheer hypocrisy, America could give lessons where issues of race are concerned.

I disagree though, that America was "then just about as racist as it could get." The Dave Allen business happened in the seventies; any person of color living in the America of the 1950s and 60s could attest to much, much worse.

But yeah, in some parts of the U.S. we still have high school proms where black and white kids are not allowed to date, etc., etc...

[kenfig]

Good ole Dave what a Legend - irreplaceable

[markdon16]

Sheer Brilliance-so missed

[BadNews88]

Note to alfaspud:

Yep, that sounds like Dave, allright.. LOL!

[alfaspud]

I remember seeing him interviewed on TV and he was asked how he lost his finger. He said when he was a kid, his father saw him with his finger up his nose and told him if he saw him doing it agin, he;d cut his finger off. Next day his father caught hi doing it agin and brought him outside to where he chopped firewood, told him to put his finger on the block. He raised the axe, Dave thought he wouldn't do it, and his father thought Dave would pull his finger out of the way, they were both wrong!

[guitarsquiddy]

oops

[fjbutch]

I bet his Dad felt like a prick after that ...

[Greenandscaly]

I remember watching Dave Allen on PBS in the 1970s and wondered what happened to him. How'd he lose part of his finger?

[TheCatgirl6]

"Dave Allen At Large." I remember. On one of the shows Dave told a joke that included the N-word. He told it very offhand, tossing around the word like it was no big deal... my family and I were stunned, and we weren't the only ones. I don't know how it played in the UK, but here in the States it did not go over well. The complaints rolled in, the press picked it up, PBS got nervous, and next thing you know "Dave Allen" was "At Large" no more. Doesn't anyone besides me remember this?

[femaleanimal]

Actually, I know the joke, and it was a comment on attitudes to race in the American south at that time. Yes, they would have used the "N" word in an off-hand way (and possibly still do).

[RavingYenaZuri]

I read somewhere that he got it caught in a cog when he was young. But he has so many different stories I am not sure XD

[ffjkhguhgft]

One of the all-time great storytellers, as well as a comedian.

Superb...and sadly missed.

R.I.P. Mr. Allen.

[8492grob]

a really funny guy ! lol I just love the way he takes the mick out of the catholic church !

[593OLYMPUS]

As Dave said - the catholic church literally beat the fear of God into him. And they wonder why the church has a bad reputation??!!

Very funny guy - way funnier than many comics today. Cheers Dave.

[alkadypod]

dave allen was one of the best and most funny men ever and miss his humour he was so funny and so clever a gem of a man sorely missed personally and theatrically

[femaleanimal]

I guess this came from a recent Parkinson compilation. I wish all of this appearance was available.

[WhereEaglesDareUK]

D,A TOP MAN

[jamierourketen]

spam again!you are making a twat of your self keiron!lol.

[carlwheathers]

Great pilosopher!

Ejel Khan

[bowler8]

Absolutely wonderful...had a crush on him...could listen to him for hours.

[onnaball]

Class ! Sadly missed !! Every word he says here is so true !

[whispperson]

I Love Dave Allen