I remember watching Dave Allen as a child and I thought he was brilliant. Absolutely one of the best.

@tillitsdone

Жыл бұрын

Same here, I watched it as a kid. On PBS, I think. It's even better this time, that I get all the jokes, lol. I'm so glad KZread suggested it, I had forgotten.

@michelleadams1212

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

It's refreshing to see such sophistication in a presenter.

I was a "latchkey kid" in the late 70s, used to watch this before going to bed. Still funny. Thanks for posting.

I discover Dave Allen, Benny Hill, and Doctor Who all in the 70's They were brilliant BBC TV shows!

@brianmcneill1972

2 ай бұрын

Benny Hill was on Thames

Dave Allen at Large was one of BBC-TV's better offerings especially for the normal folks who viewed The Goodies too juvenile and Monty Python offensive.

@ChrisMontgomery-xtrmagamr

2 жыл бұрын

And nothing like it since, for shame. Wokeness destroys everything sooner or later.

Makes me laugh so much, unlike most 2020 comedy. Total class, 50 years on IMO

@robinredshanks9096

3 жыл бұрын

Dave Allen John Cleese, The Two Ronnies the Goons etc.We will never see the like again, or laugh as much at the dumbed down rubbish as served up today..

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

@@robinredshanks9096 the two Ronnies, The Good Life, Rising Damp, Porrige, Going Strait, Open all hours and so many more

He lived and passed away to make people of all generations laugh. He was a legend and one talented comedian. Rip dave, and you'll always live in hour hearts.

we will never forget Dave.

I remember these when they were first broadcast . They stood out then as brilliant. we were lucky having these.

Dave Allen is still funny to day.

Loved Dave Allen his witty observations on people and life still rings true today Sadly nobody around today like him

I grew up with Dave Allen thanks to my Dad! He often watched him & I was there by his side. Sadly, like Dave he is gone but the fond memories of Dave & Allen & my dad live on! BOTH Legends in their own right...... Dave Allen was & IS BY FAR THE BEST COMEDIAN...... EVER!

I hope these are available on youtube forever. Dave Allen was one of the very very best comedians who ever lived.

@ausendundeinenacht1

4 жыл бұрын

Hi " hope these are available on youtube forever. Dave Allen was one of the very very best comedians who ever lived. HE AWS ACTUALLY THE VERY BEST so funnny intelligent Innovative underrrated of course, too

@mrcorcelstar

4 жыл бұрын

Pair of clowns...

@AlanCanon2222

4 жыл бұрын

I snuck watched them in Louisville Kentucky because the local CBS affiliate would show it at 11:30. I was 13. I know it was in color, but I watched almost all of that in the black and white set that my grandfather had given me. That TV was important to me. It was a shitty old mass produced 1979 Admiral black and white set. It had been my grandfather and grandmother's first "second" TV. It was in their kitchen down in Murray Kentucky, and had stopped working. They still had their nice color TV, though! So they weren't worrying about replacing it. First I saw of the Admiral TV set was on the visit to the country. Grandfather and dad had arranged this ahead of time. They had been giving me working vacuum tube radios to play with before, but this was a TV. It was in granddaddy's shop, the backshell had been removed and the capacitors in the power supply powering the picture tube carefully discharged using sandbox resistors, so that they wouldn't hurt a little boy (me). I was 9. Granddaddy soldered the first replacement power lead on it, and then handed the soldering iron to me. My little hand soldered the second lead of the power cable to the back of the little TV. Granddad and dad put the cover back on, let me drive the screws, and that was my first TV. I happened to have watched all Dave Allen on that TV. Benny Hill was there, on an adjacent channel, but Dave Allen was more my speed. Storytelling, resorting to (expensive to film, by the BBC, doubtless) filmed sketches only when Allen's joke could be best told visually. Watching Dave Allen at Large prepped me for my introduction to the BBC Radio Series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", which I, a Kentuckian, was able to tape off the FM radio something like just a year or two after Dave Allen was syndicated here, around 1981 when National Public Radio in the United States received permission from the BBC to broadcast them. But Dave Allen was first. His was my very first intro to British (Isles) television comedy. Dave, I'm in Kentucky, and a shot of bourbon in your memory, even though I know you never drank.

@kevintweddle5776

3 жыл бұрын

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@jeff1176

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlanCanon2222 I'm also from Louisville KY, I did the exact same. This was one of the great late night shows. My mom and dad never could figure out why I was always sleeping late and missing school.

This is where it all began. He tells my favorite joke here. The one about the drunk in the graveyard. It's all about motivation.

Brilliant comedy aside, watching him as a kid, perched in that chair, drink, cigarette, tailored suit and longish (but tidy) haircut, I thought he was the absolute coolest guy in the world. And the intro music was cool too.

@mattosullivan9687

3 жыл бұрын

My parents loved this guy

@starlord2112

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the half finger!

@christiangourley3873

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattosullivan9687 ⁰

@1pineapplecrush

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t have said it better myself! Loved this show as a kid!

@davidgriffiths9156

3 жыл бұрын

When I first read your comment, I thought you meant that you "as a kid" were drinking, smoking and wearing a suit 🙄

RIP Dave! 😔 Keeping God doubled over in laughter for the rest of eternity... Save a short whiskey for me, brother!

I had the opportunity of discovering this gentleman only about 6 months ago and my gosh what a talented comedian he was, Him and Benny Hill are truly the best !

@sratus

2 жыл бұрын

He was a different league to Benny Hill

Its great to see Dave Allen after so many years Do they still exist such great comics!!!!!

Takes me back to Thurday nights in the saloon bar of the Latrobe Valley Hotel Morwell. The bar was packed from 8.30 to 9.30 old black and white TV. All of us just loved Dave Allen. A true gem of a man.

Only one word for this guy... #Legend ... Forever remembered x

I'm an old American who has just recently learned of Dave Allen. What a creative comic genius! Excellent accents, a superb story and joke teller, and very good at slapstick! One of the all-time best!

His level of sophisticated humor will never be surpassed.

@Uragemdiamond

3 жыл бұрын

Absolute

@drbonesshow1

Жыл бұрын

Kelly Monteith tried RIP.

Fantastic comedian watched him since is first show still luv watching him

I saw Dave at Wakefield theatre club in 1976 and he was amazing. They couldn't get him off the stage, the cleaners were cleaning around him as he continued to tell joke after joke.

@austinlevins4361

4 жыл бұрын

Graham would love to chat to you about this...!

@grahamwalker1646

4 жыл бұрын

@@austinlevins4361 Only other comedian I saw that came close to him live on stage was Ken Dodd who I saw at Batley Variety Club.

@austinlevins4361

4 жыл бұрын

@@grahamwalker1646 Wasn't it a truly great era of comics! My Dad use to let me 'sneak' behind the arc of our couch so I could watch him even tho I was supposed to be gone to bed... I shared one of his best jokes as part of my Dads send-off when he passed... brought the house down...

@grahamwalker1646

4 жыл бұрын

@@austinlevins4361 The only disappointing comedian that I saw around that time was Freddie Starr who was at Batley Variety Club on a Christmas Eve. I don't know if he had had one over the eight before he got on stage , but he couldn't hold a candle to either Dodd or Allen.

@martindavies3772

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant ; nothing remotely as good or as funny these days on tv ; Dave Allen ; not only a comedy legend but a great actor too in those hilarious sketches

One of the greatest comedians ever

Just what we need at this time a good laugh 😁😉 thank you for this ❤️♥️♥️♥️❤️💚💚🍀🐸

I remember him from Dutch television as the guy sitting in a chair, holding a cigarette and a drink, telling jokes that I didn't understand, and my parents didnty understand either (maybe because they never learned english) But since then I have developed into a better understanding of English. And loving Dave Allen's humour even more. Thanks so much for uploading this

Sunday night used to be my favorite for TV Dave Allen Monty Python and Dr. Who such good times man I miss those days growing up in the early 80's

@bornwisedistruction

3 жыл бұрын

@wmfivethree Very perceptive Indeed I am😁

@calvinkatt662

2 жыл бұрын

WTTW channel 11?

@scottyg3406

2 жыл бұрын

Early 80's WTTW, I remember the Sunday night order as Benny Hill @ 9:30pm, Monty Python @ 10:00pm, Dave Allen @ 10:30pm, Doctor Who @ 11pm. Fans of all for life.

@calvinkatt662

2 жыл бұрын

@@scottyg3406 I think Benny Hill was on a different channel, but yes, that was an awesome time.

I watched him as a kid in England, so funny, I have retold many of his jokes my entire life. I'm glad people can see his work again, and many new fans can experience his comic genius!

What an enormous talent. May his God go with him.

@Uragemdiamond

3 жыл бұрын

Watch many times. I can sadly laugh at myself. Dave taught deflection. My Hero

@Uragemdiamond

3 жыл бұрын

Never sad after this.

Nothing will ever touch Dave Allen At Large for skit comedy or stand up. ... Dave Allen was the ULTIMATE Master Of The Laugh.

This is what real comedy truly is.. Remember watching it when I was about 12 with mum on a Saturday night..As funny now as it was then..

Timeless brilliance.

One of the most talented comedians !!!

dave was a true genius of comedy when britain had some of the best comedians ever

@kimgrattage6049

11 ай бұрын

Dave was Southern Irish and his humour was loved by so many of us who left to live around the world, he remind so many of them of the old country and their ability to tell a God story and joke. Next month my late, lovely dad would have been 91, I Will put Dave's shows on my laptop and sit with his photo and my late husbands to watch him together in remembrance. RIP to Dave and my lovely late Dad and husband who are keeping everyonè laughing in Heaven.❤❤❤

@kevinbeck6785

11 ай бұрын

@@kimgrattage6049 Dave would have said, Goodnight and May your God go with you, very touching your lovely story. ❤❤❤

@kimgrattage6049

11 ай бұрын

@@kevinbeck6785 thank you Kevin. Bless you.he was God's own comedian was Dave, he sure had a sense of humour. My ancestors were Southern Irish, we were O'Regain's going back many generations but was shortened to Regan in the 1800s. Been doing my family tree which turned out challenging as one of my G.Grandfather's x 4 were called Michael and there were hundred's to trail through. Have found easier way by going backwards from my dad, his dad and so on. Many came here during the potato famine in the 1840s and docked at Liverpool before dispersing all around the country, some went further afield like USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia where food was easier to obtain for their families, found that many died of starvation, such a shame how they were treated by the English, no wonder they don't like us. Can't say I blame them for doing so. Quite a few were my ancestors. 😪😪

@kevinbeck6785

11 ай бұрын

@@kimgrattage6049 Well done with finding out about your family tree, i remember watching a programme about the potato famine, i tried with my family tree but gave up, i live in North Wales, not far from Liverpool

@kimgrattage6049

11 ай бұрын

@@kevinbeck6785 Where in North Wales. I always go there for my holidays. I live in Staffordshire.

Dave was God's Own Comedian. grew up watching with my dad for over 50 years. Both my lovely dad and Dave are sadly gone, but no doubt still having laughs in Heaven with God and his Angels. RIP to the two most important men in my life and now joined by a 3rd, my late husband. I introduced him to Dave's comedy when we first met 45 years ago and he loved watching him on TV and then online until the day he joined him. . God Bless guys Miss you all.

@lisahutchins8186

11 ай бұрын

❤

@timothylakin5035

7 ай бұрын

I used to watch Dave Allen with my dad it was on bbc2 brilliant thanks for this

I loved watching this show as a budding teenager. Shaped who I became.

Love Dave Allen's humour. His like is not to be seen again, sadly.

@nickpagano7134

2 жыл бұрын

Dylan moran

One can tell he loves the storytelling.

I used to watch Dave Allen back when I was little. He was fun to watch.

Love this show, brings back alot of memories

What a wonderful person! Thank you.

I am in the USA. In the late 1970s, we were getting quite a bit of British comedy over here. It was on the public broadcasting and independent stations it was not on the regular network stations. At about the same time Benny Hill and Dave BBC Allen Came on over here. Benny Hill became really popular really fast, while Dave Allen just seem to fade. I actually liked him better than Benny Hill. It is nice to see these on KZread.

Laughing at what life throws at you, that's Dave. Relax and enjoy.

Best drunk impersonator you'll ever see.

Great!!!! Loved watching him on WTTW Chicago as a kid in the 70’s! Thanks for the upload.

Excellent!

Brings back so many memories when I was a child ...

I was weaned on this....changed my life , along with Spike...but in Ulster there was also Jimmy Young. I still use their words and phrases and I am guilty of passing these on to my own children, and many others when I was teaching. Red Beans and may your God go with you.

One of the best sit-down comedians ever.

Here in California somewhere @1977 my conservative parents and siblings watched this on PBS alongside Monty Python and Benny Hill. It was so funny as a kid, but a billion times better now as an adult. Cherished family memories.

I loved watching his shows starting as a kid in the 70s, he was class & a true comedian!!!!!

Bloody brilliant comedy.

This guy was just brilliant

comedian and a psychic, dave fortells the coming of camera phone!

Thanks for posting....Nice job and much appreciated!

Thank you very much for posting these wonderful programmes. I watched Dave Allen years ago and his progrmmes have not dated. He is a brilliant story teller and his timing is excellent. He is a class act and it was wonderful to have a darn good laugh. I wish the BBC would re-schedule these instead of the drivel that keeps being repeated.

Dave Allen you were a legend. My parents were English and as a child of the 60's, we watched you. THANK god my mother let me watch you! she is a die hard fundie, to this day- you were so before your time- thank a god....or someone...lol. X

RIP/VIP Dave, may you give God and all those in Heaven a wonderful time as you have done for all us on Earth, Thanking you kindly, from one of those Australians, Ian

When I first saw this guy, I really didn't know what to think. Some of his material went so far over my head I felt only the faintest gust of displaced wind. But now, after almost forty years, I think he is a comic genius! Thank you for posting! I love you!!!

@ausendundeinenacht1

4 жыл бұрын

Hi I also discovered him dave fairly late Maintenant je suis ACCCROCHé

Dave Allen and Corey Taylor on the same channel.. life gets no better! You rock Sir 🤓

I've been looking for these. Thank you.

Saw these originally off a Canadian channel and they were the edited 1/2 hour versions. Nice to see the uncut shows! Love the confessional gags! Love the nun joke, "that bloody nun still out there then?"

I always liked his sign-off "May your god go with you." Like him, I am an atheist but I respect the beliefs of others. I feel Allen's phrase was a nice way of saying "I don't agree with your beliefs but I hope you find happiness with them."

@enricosanchez894

4 жыл бұрын

I took it as Dave being inclusive to the folks from India and other places.

@MartinWillett

4 жыл бұрын

I hear it as a very polite way of saying go and take that superstitious nonsense with you, with complete plausible deniability.

@Mortthemoose

3 жыл бұрын

I know. I remember him saying that, even as a kid, watching him. It kind of stuck with me. Now I'm 55, found my Christian faith when I was about 21, but it eroded over time, and now I would class ,myself as an atheist. The circle of life huh. I do think though, if everyone thought this way, what a wonderful world it would be! It's certainly the way I like to think about things. Everyone is entitled to their own faith and religion, even if I don't believe in it.

@marlenereiffel7201

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mortthemoose mmm

Dave Allen was on one of the Chicago PBS stations (WTTW, Channel 11) whilst Morcambe & Wise aired on WGN, TV 9...both when I was a Wee Little Nipper in Maywood, Ilinois.. Dug both them and Benny Hill.. Miss 'em ALL!

@a.l.264

5 жыл бұрын

Yep , remember watching his show on channel 11 .

@herculesrockefeller8969

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, back in the '70s. It was on Sunday nights at 930 if I remember, right before Monty Python, but after The Two Ronnies. Later The Two Ronnies were replaced by Rising Damp.

Best looking guy ever to get on the stand-up stage.

@stephenyoung1782

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Comedian

Many thanks, Austin Levins. I remember watching Dave as a kid. Thanks for the laughs once again.

A genius, nowadays its just swearing

This was the same year that I was born. Obviously a great year.

@vinnysamways63

3 жыл бұрын

Any kid born in 2020 will unfortunately, be unable to say the same.

"Television will sit and watch you".......nice one Dave, lol

He was also a brilliant actor

On that Karate skit at the beginning I thought he was going to go outside and scream in pain, "Aaaahhhhh!" but the actual punchline was less predictable.

this man was amazing, I remember my mum telling me the joke of the drunks in the grave yard, because I hadn't seen that first episode. Happy days

He was 100% Wright about TVs watching you , If only I could go back in time and enjoy again never mind.

He is the greatest

Omg loved the show, wttw had to air this show when I was young!

Love watching him , he was not scared to give a proper joke on tv , everything is censored now and diluted with no taste, great to see real comedy to relax me, a good laugh is what we need so thanks

@martinplatt5928

8 жыл бұрын

+Johnny Gidharry Correct 100%

@aspenrebel

7 жыл бұрын

no love lost between him and the British, eh?

@wiseonwords

7 жыл бұрын

What?! His humour was very British!

@evilpixie96

6 жыл бұрын

we loved him, it was the republic that baned him

@nicholasjames2097

6 жыл бұрын

evilpixie96 Thank you for the tidbit of info. Interesting to know about how Dave Allen was banned. My late Ma used to enjoy Dave Allen. Very funny man. Another very funny man is Noel V Ginnity, he is on Ceol Music channel youtube. Need more laughter in this ole' world.

This brings back memories!Thanks #JBC, you gave me a window to great television around the world. KZread you are now the Smithsonian of television history!

Wonderful. I am amazed that I can anticipate so many of the sketches, despite nearly 30 years since I've seen the show. That's quality!

Brilliant love watching him , love all the sketches , and so handsome too 🎉 l think his God has a sense off humour too , we all need a good laugh 🙏🏻

So way a had of his time with his cheeky charm. Sickeningly handsome. He ripped the piss out of everyone and everything. Frankie Boyle anybody?

@theradgegadgie6352

3 жыл бұрын

If Frankie Boyle ever even dreamed he had half the talent of Dave Allen he should wake up and apologise.

@scottyg3406

2 жыл бұрын

Boyle's humor is saying a cuss word every 5 words. The younger the audience the better the reception to his humor. Dave Allen was genius level talent. Frankie Boyle is almost unknown in the States. Not in the same galaxy.

Thanks for uploading this. I almost forgot how much I liked Dave Allen. Most of these old shows, if you go back and watch them again, aren't nearly as funny as you remember them being Not so for Dave.

@john111257

5 жыл бұрын

so right, a great comedian

Dave Allen was real Class. He really knew the job at hand. He was the best, it's an awful shame it had to come to an end.

Funny guy, I worked at Australia Hotel Sydney where he stayed on tour, he'd come home after a shows and entertain us in the foyer would be, the happiest place. Perfection in every aspect. memories well never leave me.

USSR was far ahead of the curve on TV's watching you, and radios that listen to you.

@roohamm2456

3 жыл бұрын

They moved up to elections and American Presidents.

Brilliant and Outstanding, very Bold, my all time favourite

The first episode. I was dying to see it!! TY so much!😅

A great story teller,class act dave

Fascinating. I don't remember him ever having notes in his lap.

I'm deeply religious but this guy is just plain funny.

@marknestbox

5 жыл бұрын

Let your convictions be your guide and not your Law for they betray who you are.

I was too young to remember this episode but I recall the later 70's shows most. My Gran was a devout Catholic and used to disapprove sometimes but not enough not to watch.

One of the best in observational comics. It's a gift to be able to take everyday things we do without thinking about it, and make it interesting and funny

we used to practice the old "glass eye" trick after watching him on public tv near denver back in the day...

I have not seen these in 35 years. Thanks for posting them.

In 2021, this is, simply, brilliant!!!

How true when it comes to the watcher being watched

Caught Dave Allen at Large on PBS in Phila. This was during high school, his show was on a Sunday night along with a Britsitcom. Part of my self-induced course in non-American television. Or the search for, if anything. But at least I had a friend or two in high school who were on the same trek. We had stuff to talk about Monday morning, before school opened while waiting in the cafeteria. Good times.

Classic - no two ways about it!

DAVE ALLEN, BRILLIANT. " And may your god go with you" 👏👏👏

as Dav , say at end of of his shows,, my your god go with you,! & my his god go with him,!! god bless from northern ireland,! was a kid back 70s, 1st hear / see him, on tv ,back then,!! but was a 3 year old in 1971