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Dave Allen died.

Another of my comedic influences is gone. Bugger.



# "I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realise it's me."

# "Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers."

# "I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things."

# "I'm an Atheist...thank God."

# "I've stopped smoking...I think the cost was a lot of it, and not being able to breathe. I first gave up smoking when I was eight."

# "A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way."

# "We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A clock."

# "If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment."

# "Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never - I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever (what Allen said he would like to have inscribed on his tombstone) "

# "Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you"

Comments

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Bugger. :(

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Another favorite, a sketch:

man is in street with a pinbox - donations for masochists.
another man comes up, puts a coin in the box and the man selling pins sticks the pin into the buyer - ecstatic look on buyer's face
- pin seller then drops a coin in and the buyer sticks him
- repeat

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I remember that one! My favorite was the food fight in the monastary... heh. Damn. :\ I got a couple of my favorite jokes from him. The PBS station I watched when I was in grade school used to air the Dave Allen show at 10:30, right before a complete Doctor Who show (however many episodes were in that show) at 11:00 on Saturday night. *sigh* Memories...

**sigh**

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Damn!

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Rats. I loved his brand of humour.

[trickenzie.livejournal.com]

Good collection of quotes, well chosen.

I had a quiet sniffle this morning when I heard.

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

One quote you didn't include:
"People ask me why I do so many religious jokes. It's because as they say in Ireland, 'you gather the most grain in the field with the most corn'."

I'll always remember his sketches.

Remember the Robin Hood series he did, especially the one with the arrow designed to get the Sheriff's men when they were hiding behind trees :).

Or the "horror" ones, like the stalker coming up a set of stairs whilst a woman and child cower in a cupboard...
... The cupboard door is wrenched open and the woman says "Isn't daddy good at hide and seek."
Or the "Jack the Ripper" one where you see a woman walking down a street, or to be accurate you see her skirt, legs and high heels, then you see a man aparently skalking her, (upper body shot only). This is repeated, with both characters clearly becoming more agitated...
... then the camera pulls back to show that the man is wearing the skirt etc. :)

As to his religious sketches, my favourites are:
1) The Confessional which suddenly launches into space.
2) The catafalque being carried along a path when one of the carriers develops a limp.
3) The funeral for the pantomime actor.
4) The two funerals each trying to be the first to the cemetary as Irish legend is that only the first person buried on any given day is guaranteed a place in heaven.

Did you ever notice that when the sketch needed a non-catholic minister, rabbii or whatever, that Dave Allen never took that role?

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Aw man, I loved Dave Allen. I used to watch "Dave Allen At Large" on TV. Such a funny man.