Dave Allen at Large Season 1 Episode 4 1971

Episode 4 of Dave Allen at Large, Season 1

[@mickdunne981]

What a legend he was he is badly missed the best Irish comedian ever to come out of my country Ireland 🇮🇪 May Dave 🙏 rip

[@Lee-nh5bb]

I find it so fascinating that Dave only lived in Ireland for the first 19 yrs of his life, and then he lived in England for the next 49 years, and yet, such was the influence, the strength of the Irish culture, that he always came across as being 100 % Irish ( and his mother was English! ) You'd think that with an English mother, and a relatively short part of his life lived in Ireland, he'd have more of an affinity with England, yet it seems he did not. That's how strong the Irish culture was/is.

[@brendagordon4571]

I am from Connecticut, USA and recalled watching the show on PBS. Loved the show ❤❤❤❤

[@davidrichards1436]

I Miss this Man. So Funny Good Memories.

[@Val-xj6lk]

What woman would not want a man like that?I love the guy, because he's telling it the way it is, being Irish, ☘️ I can relate to him 100% miss yea Davie 😢😢

[@exlibrisross]

Thank you so much for sharing this, right back to my childhood, theme music & all, my dear mum loved him. Blessings ever from Belfast.

[@mandyjourneaux6552]

a real joy! I laughed and laughed and laughed.

[@joandar1]

Hello fellow Dave Allen fans. As an Australian I have to laugh out him taking the piss out of Aussies at the beginning! I am not thin skinned at all and think the man is/was a genius, loved his work for about 40 yrs now. John.

[@kevinfarrell523]

One word for Mr Allen: genius.

[@calvinkatt662]

Throughout the 1980's, Dave Allen At Large was shown on Chicago's PBS station, channel 11 WTTW. It was on at 10:30 Sunday nights, right after Monty Python and right before Doctor Who. I loved staying up late Sunday nights to watch those shows.

[@suzanneoshannessy7666]

Gorgeous talented man

[@jesusnodal8948]

A show that never gets old. We miss you so much Dave!!!

[@toni4729]

He's hilarious. Dave Allan was brilliant.

[@glenngibson9201]

The theme song alone is worth the price of admission. These shows bring back so many memories. Great stuff. Dave is missed but never forgotten.

[@ebbhead20]

when you need to slow down, and just let that warm feeling of nostalgia cover you like a warm blanket.. nothing does it better than uk comedy shows of the 70's and 80's. Am i right ? 😊

[@revhead5420]

Agreed !

[@aerospike00]

Yup!

[@TheSeanm102]

yes you are

[@lindabeattie133]

ebbhead20 sooo right!. Well said, simpler times, happy memories of family sitting room entertainment....

[@loobyloo1955]

ebbhead20 feeling nostalgic for England and here I am watching. Born in 1955 now live in the USA. They are not as funny as the British.

[@Eric-steele]

They don't have guys like this anymore, genius

[@Pfirtzer]

He would be crucified by the woke gender fluent binary non binary idiots and PC governments.Thank God I could watch him being 13 years of age 40+ years ago when you could laugh about everything and everyone without caring if it was offensive. I pity the younger generations, they will live in a horrible world.

[@joyb5525]

In this insane World a laugh a day, keeps insanity away. Goddess Bless the UnWoke spirit of St. David Allen alive. 🇮🇪🧙💐🍷.

[@shakthidhasan4544]

OMG this guy is brilliant.

[@markmeade2937]

Having just come back from a weekend in Ireland I can say this , firstly the Irish are the most welcoming of people, there food is brilliant, the countryside breathtaking and there humour as dry as a vodka martini, there dry wit is brilliant and I had a complete crack there. Dave Allen , a comic genius and the humour and satire are like a fine wine they get better with age 👍

[@scobra5941]

Unlike your spelling.

[@markmeade2937]

@@scobra5941 Well we can’t be perfect like you can we …….

[@scobra5941]

@@markmeade2937 No, you can't.

[@markmeade2937]

@@scobra5941 But I know my limitations, I wonder if you know yours ?

[@scobra5941]

@@markmeade2937 No, I don't. Have any, that is.

[@gregorynpappas]

Dave Allen was a favorite comedian growing up. I love that I found these!

[@toni4729]

I have to admit, I loved that short rhyme when I was a kid, and still do. As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, I wish that man would go away.

[@teterouge1472]

50 years later and still funny.... Top stuff....

[@mrjob-oz4ex]

I was 1 when this was first on now I am 51 I love it

[@gremlinuk1968]

I was a 3 year old back then, Pal, 🤝🇬🇧❤ , born May 23rd 1968, from northern Ireland UK, 🤝🇬🇧❤ ,

[@stevenphillips1311]

The good old days of night time tv

[@roywinstanley9402]

A comic genius without a doubt.brilliant.Taken from us far too soon.RIP

[@michaelhadjipavlis5559]

a true genius sadly missed!

[@Analiffey1916]

As Irish Catholic’s my mam and da wouldn’t allow us kids to watch this blasphemy as they called it, we still managed to watch him behind closed doors lol.😉here we are in 2022 and I’m laughing my head off, god bless you Dave Allen you surely are missed 🇮🇪

[@connectthedots5678]

Pss Daven Allen does not believe in God.. God does not exist, by the way. In fact, the Christians themselves doing blasphemy.

[@martinamassey5379]

Same

[@KyrieMurray-wg8qd]

, xx

[@skunkhead2007]

i used to thrive watching dave allen the music in the shows is the grooviest

[@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674]

skunk head well said Skunk..

[@rickketchum8668]

This is great!!! Haven't seen these in 40 years. A very funny man.The funniest skit is when he was stranded on a desert Island. Don't want to ruin it for you.

[@genki2genki]

Dave Allen was shown on PBS in the US, which allowed us Canadians (at least those in southwestern Ontario) to see it. There was nothing else like it. I was young, 13 or 14 at the time, and can't say I understood a lot of the references he made, he was so different from say, Carson, but Dave was sharp as hell and a superb story teller.

[@castlebar67]

HI friend your the same age as me then regards .

[@garysweeney3625]

America too.

[@rippage5]

here in the midwest it was on late saturday night on a local channel. i was young too and i still loved it. i remembered skits for all these years. thanks youtube!

[@matthewbritton4149]

Superb

[@pamelawhitelaw1458]

I went to one of his shows. Absolutely worth every cent

[@QUIETSTORM43]

I loved this man as a child! (up watching this knowing I was supposed to be asleep) lol

[@QUIETSTORM43]

lol

[@MrJIMMYMAC31]

he was on sunday night after benny hill in Chicago.

[@richardsharpe2966]

Loved watching Dave Allen a very funny man and what he said about Australia is true

[@lydiaannecarlson6554]

One of the greats

[@lsdmadman]

yay i used to watch this w my little Irish grandmother..

[@christinescarff4920]

You could give yourself a hernia laughing at all this ! Dave Allen is just so funny !!! Love the jokes about Australia too cos I’ve discovered that my Yorkshire grandfather and his younger brother were actually living in New South Wales just before WW1 .

[@hallets1956]

OMG! I forgot just how funny Dave Allen was. I'm from Australia. Thanks for the upload..

[@francisskundaliny1295]

Dave is one of the best!👍😁

[@smakarphoenix]

I'm so happy for these videos being uploaded to be easily watched - thank you!!! I searched for "Irish comedian with missing finger" and there he was - Dave Allen! I remember watching him on TV in the 70's with my parents - he had the rare talent of being table to tell funny tales while holding your attention - and the sweetest smile. And I also miss the "good ole' days" when you could smoke and drink on TV (and sometimes get tipsy) in freedom. Dave Allen, the Dean Martin roasts - people had fun with each other back then. Thanks again.

[@donrobertson4940]

The Irish comedian without a missing finger :-) He tells a hike about people asking if he's the comedian with half a finger. He says no. He's got nine and a half fingers.

[@janeyd5280]

@@donrobertson4940 lol 😆

[@irishinoslo]

OMG Dave Allen has summed up the Australians so well, IE

[@rogercoulsby3529]

irishinoslo i missed that part of the show

[@TheCarin12]

+irishinoslo Things have changed quite a bit.

[@aliceharman8433]

irishinoslo reta nhaworth

[@andrewbaker8765]

as I'm Australian forty four years later we still talk like that :)

[@toni4729]

Well some do.

[@SuperCowboyblue]

totally agree thank you you tube for letting us share a comedy genius

[@pamount]

This episode has my favourite Dave Allen sketch in it. The monster from the pond.

[@sasm7519]

These shows and the man himself were brilliant. I remember them from back in the days where they were originally aired and just stumbled upon them here again. I just love the train sketch at 30 min. Dave cant suppress his enjoyment with the sketch. Thanks for posting these shows.

[@bridgetdoman1386]

Loved him. My mother was and Irish Catholic and always laughed at his jokes etc.

[@jaklyncraft666]

Loved Dave Allen since childhood

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Discovered this very funny show thanks to my local PBS station in Maine. They showed this back in the 1980's

[@chycho]

Thank you for putting these up. Awesome!

[@brendanvick1971]

So many people think dave chappelle was the first to do skit shows with a monologue .But he was not. it was Dave Allen when Dave Chappelle was still a baby.

[@ranenbhattacharyya2216]

Watched Dave Allen in the Uk 🇬🇧 when there as student! Still love him

[@patricianugent1675]

Dave Allen was the best comic ever.

[@fennyellis3366]

And sexy as hell!!❤

[@skunkhead2007]

love the music got it all downloaded

[@ljiljalazic9766]

He is great. I watched his show in Yugoslavia when I was child in 80s.

[@viamilitaris011]

Oh, yes .. "Sunday afternoon" show of Zagreb Television 😁 ...Watched regularly in Belgrade.

[@jenniferwells9032]

As an Aussie I can honestly say that Dave is spot on in what he says 😂 I 🥲😂😂pissed myself laughing back then, and now it’s the same. Especially sex and religion 😂😂🙏❤️❤️

[@toni4729]

Snap, he got it right alright. I'm not an Aussie, but I've been here for sixty years. Even the accent was good.

[@roohamm2456]

2021- STILL the REAL DEAL!! Stay Healthy Friends!!

[@jenniferwells9032]

Yep you are👍I love Aussie irreverence to everything 😂 and Dave’s word is ‘absurdity’ of humans 😂😂😂❤️❤️🥲🥲 still miss him and I’m sure he’d have a crack up on world affairs of today! Thnx mate👍

[@64davrecon]

Thanks for posting! Haven't thought of this guy in 40 years....remember watching him when I was sick home from school in the 3rd grade. He was on one of the local TV stations around noon time in upstate NY. What a trip down memory lane. There was another guy named Paul Hogan who had a show about the same time....

[@rogercoulsby3529]

64davrecon "Crocodile" Dundee.. [to a New York driver] Get on the right side of the road you pelican! No wonder you have so many accidents around here, the steering wheels on the wrong side of the car!

[@rogercoulsby3529]

64davrecon [Dundee is threatened by a mugger with a switchblade ] [chuckling] That's not a knife. [draws a large Bowie knife] That's a knife.

[@paulmanson253]

For those of us on the other side of the continent, what part is upstate?

[@wagonsworld9592]

I remember that show, mostly the tramp with the music "The Entertainer" playing through the clip each week.

[@trishlangford5773]

One of the all time greats. Gone too young. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@francoL1961]

Thank you for making these videos available online - I used to love to watch these in Germany in the 70's and 80's

[@thomasdearment3214]

his show was on every sat. or sun never missed it wonderful to see it again

[@lorraineydays57]

Dave Allen, my Irish anti depressant. A man who observed life and talked about it, and the fact that he got up the Catholic church's nose made him all the more popular to the young teens in Ireland at the time.

[@juttamaier2111]

Thanks for uploading this. Very enjoyable

[@nguyendailam6703]

Broadcast on BBC Two on Thursday 4th March 1971.

[@bonearete5419]

Thank you for making the world a happier place Allen. God Bless you...oops sorry,....whatever bless you just the same.

[@christinescarff4920]

As a practising catholic myself who loathes the institution that is the Catholic Church, I just LOVE Dave Allen’s jokes about the Catholic Church ! The confessional box one is a real corker ! Actually, man wasn’t made in God’s likeness, it’s woman who was, as the basic mammalian template is FEMALE so infact figuratively speaking Adam was created from Eve’s rib ! Not a lot of people know that ! 🤷‍♀🎓🥇🏆

[@Turrican60]

Personally, I'd say we're created by our parents, nobody else, and that's where our likeness comes from. Each to his or her own, though.

[@christinescarff4920]

@@Turrican60 Well, we’re created by the sum of our genes of course, but I remember the study of identical twins reared together or reared apart from my studies in psychology which then inform the ‘ nature’ v ‘ nurture’ debate. And of course it’s the fascination with identical twins which led to the dreadful experiments of that SATAN Joseph Mengala in Auschwitz concentration camp. I sure hope there is a God, cos he should rot in HELL.

[@MC-in8mc]

I'm with you on the catholic church bit. I loved him taking the the craic' out of them.😂

[@christinescarff4920]

@@MC-in8mc When I was young my mum banned Dave Allen from out TV! But then she was fairly hard line catholic ! 😡🤷‍♀

[@MynameisPaul.]

True about the Female gender being the template and it makes sense as to why women are more discerning, have better dexterity, are naturally more enterprising without interference and more likely to stick around and provide for their children, have a better moral compass generally speaking, nor are women prone to the destruction of others or self destruction either, etc etc.. nor are they prone to the idiocy of assuming and bullying others for as much responsibility as possible, (E.g, financial), but then whining of having to carry all the responsibility and having to share 'their' money, (if it hasn't all been spent on alcohol and other rubbish first, before any food for their children), not my situation, but certainly a typical y chromosome issue for many. How interesting it is that Dave Allen was and is so offensive to many Catholics as you have mentioned. Institutions that discourage opinions or thorough questioning and worse, can't easily withstand humour, are the epitome of.. (feel free to fill in the blank).

[@christineconrad4269]

always loved him

[@yabbadabbadoo8225]

The 70's were Comedy Gold just B4 all the 'wowzer' movements began. Everyone knew each night which shows were next. These days there's Zero.

[@Violet-jy6qs]

Love Dave allen

[@Eoin933]

Pure brilliance

[@johnrowley3721]

That’s one hell of a security system with that safe, you gotta admit!!😁👍

[@moutsee]

A very good looking genius

[@tomduggan51]

Thanks for hugely enjoyable fun with Dave and his team!

[@pamelawhitelaw1458]

I loved watching hom.

[@yogibear284]

I grew up in New Zealand watching this as a kid. Funny thing is, my Irish wife didn't know who he was???

[@Pfirtzer]

She missed a lot, I love Dave and was sad when he died, way too young used to watch him together with my mom who passed on also way too young. Mom, Dave rest in peace thank you for making my life bearable with your sens of humor!I'll take a whiskey on your behave.

[@toni4729]

Ouch!

[@coletteannemaud1340]

Where has this great kind of older humour gone? gone with all the shit today and the comedians who will never be like this guy...

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Wow. What a great show

[@markkiggin2349]

dave Allan is better than the program s that are on now.

[@ruthecker399]

love dave rip

[@elliotw4606]

not sure how i found this guy but XD hes awsome!! "WHO WANTS TO BE A BILLIONAIRE?!?!?" "i do" BAM!

[@paulkenneally789]

Always a well - dressed man.

[@306champion]

Well Dave, if you were still with us you wouldn't need to worry about us Aussies, we can always laugh at ourselves.Miss ya Mate.P.S. did you rise to the heavens or down to the depths ???

[@millionseller001]

nice one. nothing wrong with you guys.

[@306champion]

@@millionseller001 Thanks mate, I lost count how many times I've watched all these, they just don't age or ware out.

[@thoughtsurferzone5012]

One of the great bar joke tellers.

[@harryflashman9495]

‘It’s those white Australians I don’t like.’ Brilliant

[@hesapyildirim]

British comedy at its finest

[@davekp6773]

Ouch, he was a proud Irishman. Ok lived in London but still.

[@garybrockwell2031]

Silly sod 😁💓💯🇬🇧🆘✌️🙏👁️☠️👁️🌎💪🌍🗣️😵Where are you Dave we NEED you? God bless David WITH LOVE FROM LONDON 😍🇬🇧🙏👍

[@abbamanic]

Great comedy!

[@shantishanti1949]

As an Australian I agree with everything he said lol.... I am from the UK and emigrated to Australia I have found many snakes on my property, and I love a really cold bear, love it, the only way to drink a bear.

[@Eoin933]

He looks so Young

[@timjones6204]

timeless comedy.

[@nicholas9014]

Only one Dave Allan brilliant best there ever was no one has come closeripx

[@Trek001]

To be a bit geeky here, that train has the head code 5Z40 which would actually indicate an empty train, stock working or light engine

[@Tiger-Baby]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 The weather broadcast and Ireland... genius. Still 'lol'-ing. Good clean fun. Possible to cry with laughter without being offensive. Or taking offense.

[@Angela-ob8wd]

i JUST ADORE HIM. That is real comidian

[@michialzanellotti8406]

😂 I'd your really not feeling good..some won't no about Dave Allen a Irish comedian..it's brilliant. And I have to say ..makes me laugh so much..(dam man pants zanno 😮)..

[@michialzanellotti8406]

Sadly he died at 68.of emphysema .2005 Really missed ..

[@stephencrockford3218]

Yes, he was very funny...died so young, so sad

[@mic187x2]

I remember this being shown on WWOR TV(now UPN) Channel 9 in NY Back in the day.

[@margaretsmith7063]

Love you Davey you were amazing just Brill Margo ❤️ ♥️

[@brendagordon4571]

Absolutely funny comedian 😂😅😅

[@gkprivate433]

I remember one episode, two groups of christian bishops or whatever sparred a joust match in a field. Just off the wall funny for then and now

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Ask a stupid question, you'll get Dave xxxxx

[@cianmcgrory1351]

The joke about how Australians talk was basically copied by Dylan Moran at one of his shows. There was definitely a big influence on him by Dave Allen even in the manor isms used by both of them

[@morespywareforyou2262]

Bloody hell! If anyone told some of those jokes today, he'd be arrested.

[@gregbrown3283]

I like his abo voice buying the metho.