American Reacts to Dave Allen Religious Jokes

[@tonygriffin_]

Dave Allen was so far ahead of his time. A brilliant comedian who used humour to show the many holes in religious dogmas.

[@kindnessfirst9670]

Without those holes there is no dogma.

[@angelagardner5230]

he was a genious

[@pauln0371]

I grew up watching Dave Allen in the late 70s and early 80s. He was fuck funny back then and still is to this day. Absolute genius of comedy..RIP Dave🙏🙏

[@MegaBadgeman]

And it's all totally clean.

[@davec8730]

RIP dave, wherever you are?

[@mikem10481]

Being from Holy Catholic Ireland Dave Allen truly was a breath of fresh air. A man truly ahead of his time.

[@everestyeti]

I come from a Catholic family, Dave Allen was a staple diet in my childhood, we all loved him. Sadly missed RIP Mr Allen 🌹

[@Hairnicks]

Dave was my hero as a young man, what a guy, he lived for several years in my birth village of Landkey in Devon. Much loved and missed.

[@mort8143]

I never missed Dave Allen on TV here in Australia when I was young. He, and the Two Ronnie's were fantastic. Good stuff Eclectic Beard.

[@huepix]

He was a master of comedy. I loved the way he ended all his shows. "Good night, and may your god, whoever it may be, go with you".

[@tomj819]

Dave Allen is probably the best narrative comedian there has ever been. Just a complete understanding of tone, pace, subversion of expectation that is not just for its own sake, polite irreverence, and the odd swear word to throw everything else into sharp relief...

[@darrelmorton8511]

Seen Dave Allen live In his one man show in Manchester 1982 . He was so funny , he just sat on a stool , drinking whisky and smoking and telling his funny stories for 2 hours . Was brilliant .

[@iniquity123]

Dave Allen RIP. A legend from my childhood in the 70's.

[@mrnorthernspitfire3067]

Your comparison to Billy Connolly is a valid one and one that I've made as well, they both deliver their jokes through storytelling but they both do it a different way. Dave Allen does it like how friends tell stories in a pub (sat down, relaxed, easy going,). Billy's delivery is like the fella that has you in stitches on your tea break with his loud, dramatic and animated stories. I grew up watching and listrening to these two, absolutely fantastic comedians.

[@capcompass9298]

They were\are both catholics.

[@richardh3761]

I was lucky enough (or clever enough) in the 80's, to see his live performance. After 2 hours, at the encore, he came on stage to a huge applause … he picked up his glass of whiskey, looked at us, and said “F**k off home, it’s over!”😂😂

[@button1ginger1]

I saw him in the early 90s in London. He started off with a preamble about not being the sort to do encores and that when the lights go out, we needed to get going to catch the bus home. At the end, he walked off, leaving the stool, the bar table and his glass of whiskey and the lights went down. He walked off to an ovation. We carried on clapping long after the lights went out and then slowly, the lights went up. We cheered and clapped like crazy. He came back out on stage and we went nuts. He walked towards the stool and table, picked up his glass, looked at us like we were morons and waved us away. He then walked off and the lights went out again. We cried laughing during that show.

[@peterjf7723]

@@button1ginger1 I saw him a couple of times in the late 1990, at the end of one show he gave his drink to a man in the front row of the audience.

[@bamboo59.52]

Dave Allen's stuff hasn't dated at all, it is as fresh today as it was in the 70s. I miss his humor so much. RIP Dave ❤

[@NoxiousRob]

It's why the comparison with Billy Connolly is so apt, their comedy is timeless

[@richardw.389]

Nice to see the comedy genius of Dave Allen reaching other continents and being appreciated years after his death.

[@silverwolf3745]

Dave Allen was a great Comedian, I met him a few times as I went to school with his nephew.

[@alanhynd7886]

The Black Cat analogy has been attributed to folks all the way back to Confucius. HL Mencken was the person that added the line about a theologian being the one that found it. All it then needed was a class act like Allen to deliver it. Imagine someone today being offered a half-hour prime time slot to rip into any religion he felt needed taking down a peg, I can't.

[@robinharwood5044]

Attributed, but not actually from Confucius.

[@kindnessfirst9670]

Too many Christians are snowflakes- if you say "happy Hanukkah" to one they accuse you of waging a war on Christmas.

[@JoannaHammond]

What I loved about Dave Allen was that he showed the absurdity of religion.

[@colingregory7464]

He had a real knack for stretching everything to its logical conclusion or beyond

[@gordonlawrence1448]

Jesus himself was not a fan of religion.

[@stalwart263]

I think Dave Allen made me an atheist.

[@nejuw]

It was Irish Catholicism in particular.

[@kindnessfirst9670]

Religion shows it's absurdity without anyones help.

[@ManxAndy]

Hey EB……Dave Allen was so ahead of the game where stand up is concerned, his observations were so true, one of my all time comedy hero’s 🇮🇲👍

[@tnetroP]

I love Dave Allen. Also grew up with him on the TV. I didn't understand a lot of it when I was a kid but looking back he is hilarious and very clever.

[@eileentaylor1691]

he was always great...a man before his time

[@Badgersj]

He was absolutely great. He's still great of course, and greatly missed.

[@slowmoon]

At 6:40, the greatest 10-second pause in the history of comedy.

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

Omg EB, I’ve stopped it at 11.30 as I know what’s coming next , I never thought I’d see this again , I remember rolling on the floor laughing at this with the rest of my family and I near wet myself and was choking with laughter … it’s the race to the cemetery, literally the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on tv…. Thanks for reacting to this genius 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

As a kid growing up in the 70s, Dave Allen used to come on TV around 9pm when I was supposed to be going to bed for school but would sometimes catch the start of his TV show. Even as a kid I knew it was risque and edgy

[@gerardhoolachan2172]

Saturday night in my pyjamas, mum allows me to stay up late, she was a very strict Catholic but she had tears of laughter pouring down her face, dave couldn't stand the po faced virgins pontificating morals to the world, a really funny man, his sketches are very clever too 😁👍

[@SassiLassi]

I Love Dave Allan. Left us far too soon. R.I.P. Dave. May your God be with you.

[@nottmjas]

Taken in his mid 60s. He should have had another 15 years to spend with his young child.

[@condorboss3339]

" _May your God be with you_ " Thank you for remembering his exit line.

[@ontaka5997]

The brilliant thing about Dave is, he doesn't sound angry, vulgar, or bitter, which many comedians sound when they talk about religion. He just tells his stories in good humor with an innocent face. He does tell many of his jokes from a "Child's" point of view.

[@rocon86]

I'd say Dave Allen is the funniest and most intelligent Irish comedian we've ever exported from Ireland. He was years ahead of his time. He pointed out the religious absurdities that religious people and society think are normal, like swearing on a fictional book in court to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

[@richardhunter7363]

Loved DA and loved all of these - probably saw them when they were first aired. There are so many sketches based on how he felt about religion, especially Catholicism. He held the record for many years for the most complaints made over a single broadcast when one of the shows had a sketch of the Pope performing a strip tease. Some people have no sense of humour.

[@necessaryevil3428]

My late dads favourite comedian 😊 You have to remember that Dave Allen was doing these religious gags when it was very controversial to do so

[@bobthebinbag5949]

Ditto 👍

[@steven54511]

Dave Allen was a comedic genius and is sadly missed. Watching as a teenager, his style of comedy was a refreshing change when compared to the mainstream comedian's of the day - most of which I personally didn't find funny in the slightest. Thank you Alan for showing this clip.

[@laurabedford5095]

We love dave allen , he received alot of threats in Ireland for joking about religion, god gave us humour to laugh .

[@w01f777]

Fantastic man and very funny. His one about teaching his kid the time is brilliant

[@TheEclecticBeard]

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[@Cakespectre999]

Im 50 in April can remember watching Dave Allen as a kid with my dad great memories 👌

[@PianoDentist]

The second joke reminds of the one that goes: There is nothing wrong with talking to god. The problem is when you think he's talking back to you.

[@anthonymorris9061]

Oh.

[@graemejohnson9025]

If The Lord is our Shepherd, Can I change Farms? This is when everyone wasn't pc correct and thin skinned as we are now.. in his audience is full of Christians, and they went to the show to laugh at themselves..

[@nizmollusk]

Man was a genius, one of my mums favourites growing up. RIP a great man.

[@gremlinuk1968]

Grew up watching Dave , when I was a kid in the 70s,, so great of you loving Dave Allen,,! God Bless,! I was born 23rd May 1968 from northern Ireland UK, 🤝🇬🇧♥️

[@stevecoleman2250]

I just find it hard to believe that the Americans are only just discovering Dave Allen. The guy was a comic genius.

[@edenviews]

I saw these when they first were on TV here in UK, but not all and it's great you have shared them so that the memory can come back of how we laughed back then. I don't know if I had a grasp of religion then, so becoming a non-believer was natural for me especially with Dave Allen's help.😁

[@louisegoodyear2515]

Brilliant footage of Dave Allen, nothing compares!

[@eddiebest1951]

Dave Allen was in a class of his own a superb comic. Thanks for posting EB😀

[@JAQUESDIBLET]

I saw Dave Allen Live in Canada 28 years ago . I was in stitches . Thanks for this .

[@philiprowney]

[ MAWR COMMNTZ IZ MAWR BETTER 4 THA ALGORYTHM ] Best review so far. Dave Allen is a big mine to delve in. Very smart fellah!

[@MP-fw4ub]

Very lucky to have seen him perform live a couple of times, a very talented and funny man. The TV version was very sanitised.

[@robby1816]

I grew up watching his show every week. OMG have you seen The Kenny Everett Video Show? That was another fav.

[@joyridgway6398]

I just love your reactions, keep them coming.

[@mo-mo2991]

Dave Allen was one of the best ever

[@thomasskeffington4539]

Dave always made thought provoking comedy.

[@jaymac7203]

I grew up watching Dave Allen. He's like the James Bond of comics he's amazing ☺👍

[@NicholasSadlier]

I remember watching him on TV from childhood in the 70s right through to the 90s. Along with Billy Connolly, probably the best loved stand-up (or sit down) comedian in the UK during that time.

[@Macca-rb5ok]

Not just the UK, he was very popular in the country he came from too.

[@Macca-rb5ok]

Another great Irish export to the world.

[@steveosborne2297]

@@Macca-rb5ok Second only to Guinness

[@lemat8558]

I grew up watching Allen on TV. Such a funny - and intelligent comedian.

[@shooterdalton5014]

you're dead right about him and Billy Connelly,the two of them weren't afraid of telling these back in the day....legends

[@iangrice329]

I remember seeing that funeral sketch when I was 5 or 6, I laughed so much my mum thought I was going to die.

[@DeneF]

Had to come and watch this again after watching your Dave Allen post of today. Many thanks Mr E.B.

[@kalinaphillips9779]

He is my favourite comedian. I watched him in 1991 on TV and literally cried with laughter. Please, watch Dave Allen about Teenagers. It is absolutely hilarious.

[@jimmybisk]

I absolutely loved Dave Allen. So funny! I remember seeing one or two of the sketches you reacted to well over 20 years ago when they were first broadcast over here in the UK - & I still remember them almost word for word. He was so engaging! Really glad he's a comedian you've discovered! He's done tons of stuff, well worth checking more out from him! Thanks for a great reaction. Well worth checking out the £10 note under car tyre sketch - couldn't stop laughing!

[@The_Oracle_of_time]

Saw him live years ago. He was brilliant.

[@peterjf7723]

David Allen was a great comedian. In the 1990s I organised a couple of very popular work trips to see him.

[@kay110]

This is from when comedy was funny - unlike most comedy of today... RIP Dave Allen..

[@dazzfromaus4797]

You gotta admidt he really good. I grew up watchn this man on TV every Friday night from 8:30 till 9:30pm.

[@WeeGrahamsaccount]

Love your channel . You must you must you must do a review of "This Country" its the best comedy and of course its on the BBC. My God its one of the few comedies that I have had to pause due to the pain of laughter it brings. Its a must. I have watched it repeatedly and I see new things in it, It is a truly laugh out loud comedy.

[@jasonbenic6324]

I really enjoyed those thanks . always ready for more from that guy so thanks for the resourcing and found myself laughing exactly the same as u where. its international

[@rayjennings3637]

They're all great but that last joke just climbs way above the rest!

[@Sorarse]

When I was young, I remember the Dave Allen show being on every week. It was always hilarious from start to finish. I don't think we will ever see his like again, certainly as far as his take on religion goes.

[@jimcook1161]

Dave Allen... Absolute genius!!!

[@tonydoherty5614]

thanks man..that was back in the 70/80s,,, they would never show anything like that now,, to P.C,, thanks for ya review, and you do make me laugh .

[@kevinhayes7830]

A long time ago but the jokes age so well unbelievable 👍

[@johnf3885]

I remember seeing Dave Allen at the London Palladium in the early eighties and he was amazing, I've never laughed so much.

[@melthebell33]

Great stuff, growing up mi dad used to watch Dave all the time

[@stevebeardsmore3303]

In one sketch during the apartheid years he played a South African Pastor who finds a black boy in his church. He askes the boy what he is doing in a white church, the boy says cleaning. The pastor says 'That's OK but don't let me catch you praying' He could be political in his humour. As a comedian he was up there with the best and was clearly not only funny but very intelligent.

[@gnwillou]

Best joke that never needed telling "And he saw Adam was happy...."

[@ezza9578]

Cheers eb, love our dave, and it's been a hot minute as you guys would say👍❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@ct5625]

I love Dave Allen. I grew up in a house with parents who loved comedy, and we had some of the best here in the UK, during the 80s and 90s especially. Saturday and Sunday evenings in the living room with mum and dad laughing our arses off to people like Dave, Victoria Wood, French and Saunders, Billy Connolly, Richard Digance, Des O'Conner, Julian Clary... So many great ones.

[@annabanana7071]

Best story teller I've ever heard. Nothing beats intelligent humour

[@Lumibear.]

He was a delight. I recall that he kept getting into trouble at the time, for swearing or offending dignitaries and such, they tried to reign him in by approving his scripts beforehand word for word, but the man talked from brain to mouth and adapted to the audience reaction on the night, so you got what you got or you got nothing, he just could not be scripted like that.

[@lindaodd9681]

My dad LOVED Dave Allen. Dave was a genius. He was brave & brillliant. My dad was a committed atheist. 💕

[@neilfett1233]

Way ahead of his time. Cool as hell with it

[@zetectic7968]

Such a great teller of a good story often with a twist in the tail. Nobody like him before or since.

[@arejaycee5484]

Brings back memories of watching His show in the 70s Great memories.

[@RushfanUK]

Dave Allen was brilliant.

[@mammybelle7302]

Liking even before I watch your video...seen all Dave Allen's sketches and stage as a kid, So I know what's coming 😘💗 We'll never have a comedian like him again, sadly 💗

[@peterlewis8040]

One of the greatest comedians ever

[@isladurrant2015]

Dave Allen was my dad's favourite comedian... him and Billy Connelly.

[@vereybowring]

Classic stuff, so many of the younger crowd don't know the sort of stuff they've missed. Also I suggest buying a new gas strut for your chair, they're easy to get and not too expensive. One thing about them though, measure the length of the current strut at where you normally have it for sitting in the chair and buy the closest length of strut to that length for the replacement even if it's longer than the current one collapsed. Also worth buying a strut that is rated for more weight than is needed so it isn't stressed. The ones that come as standard with chairs are normally not good quality. The quality strut I use is now on it's second chair and showing no sign of problems.

[@robertbelton7635]

As an Jesuit educated Irish catholic I wish to point out that Dave Allen was one of the most watched TV shows here in Ireland . and this was during the time that Monty Pythons Life of Brian was banned and condoms were smuggled into Ireland inside packets of heroin

[@marikamarseli8504]

I loved Dave Allen. I watch his show through out the 70s and in to the 80s and then he died. Ohh how very sad to lose such a comedy genius 😢 😞 💔 😭 He's irreplaceable.

[@steven9370]

I used to watch him on the local PBS station, all the great Brits..

[@philiplaw9336]

a great and funny man of his time

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Thank you for sharing this classic comedy with us all....peace and love from the wirral...E

[@Richie90090]

Me as an Englishman love this channel and it's so nice Americans can appreciate old Brit comedy!

[@raycorr3473]

Irish

[@lorraineydays57]

@@raycorr3473 It pisses me off when they try to claim him as their own.

[@trevorseal1377]

Great video.....cheers.

[@golfpark94]

This was on tv in the early 80 in Holland. Everybody knew him and loved his Jokes.

[@lynetteallpress8079]

My dad used to watch Dave Allen years ago so he was pretty much part of my upbringing. Yes he was brilliant then and still is today.

[@jaytaylor6351]

I was working at the stage door of the Arts Theatre in Cambridge UK, Davee did a week of shows with us, and every evening we would chat, oh for 20 or 30 mins, in 11 years at the stage door, he was surprisingly the least judgemental, and certainly one of the most intelligent and insightful people , I ever met. so sad that he passed, but for his time, he was an extremely brave man too, when you consider what we have learned since, I still use his closing line, to honour his memory , goodnight, and may your god go with you. luv Jay Cambridge UK

[@Rich-lb5ec]

..thank you, made me remember my childhood when my parents didn't know I was watching them watching Dave. It made me think

[@David_Baxendale]

Still funny all these years later.

[@angelogandolfo4174]

Wow. The second joke in (that you liked a lot, too) really has me thinking! That’s pretty deep. We’re going all existentialist now……

[@christinescarff4920]

Dave Allen is just wonderful - he pokes fun at the institutions of religion , especially the Catholic Church ! In one sketch he says God really loves atheists cos they’re not always bothering him with ‘ O God, please help me with this or that ‘. There’s also the joke about ‘ he who is without sin cast the first stone ‘ and a huge boulder crashes down from heaven and knocks out the preacher ! What Dave Allen didn’t know though, because he wasn’t a biologist ( and I am ) is that the basic mammalian template is FEMALE, so Eve was created first and Adam was metaphorically made from HER rib !

[@scottbrandon6244]

"Dave Allen at Large" used to be on Canadian TV back in the 1970s and 1980s five days per week. It was great fun to watch. We also used to get The Two Ronnies and Benny Hill as well.

[@iancain8215]

He was brilliant