The black cat that isn't there and finding it refers to a God that doesn't exist yet somehow the pope found/made up one anyway.

Dave Allen wasn't just a funny man, he was a fantastic story-teller too.

As an Irish man who grew up in the same area of Dublin as Dave Allen, I know exactly why he thinks of religion the way he does.

@Cauin450

2 ай бұрын

Because it's true, religion is a con and a bad joke combined.

He was a genius. One of God's greatest comedians. Sorely missed 🙏

@seanscanlon9067

Жыл бұрын

Great use of irony there.

@Cauin450

2 ай бұрын

He was an out and out atheist, so he wasn't their imaginary friend's anything.

In the atheist joke, the Pope is saying to the atheist that disproving God is like trying to find a black cat in a dark room that isn't there. The atheist, insulted by this, turns the analogy around by saying to the Pope that God himself is the black cat that isn't there. The clever wordplay that the atheist uses to reverse the analogy is what makes the joke funny.

@BelieveNoGod

Жыл бұрын

And logically so.

@shaunelliott6972

Жыл бұрын

If you have to explain it then it isn't funny.

@chullychullster3077

Жыл бұрын

@@shaunelliott6972 If you try to be a smart arse to someone in the comments trying to help the creator out with a question asked within the video itself, then you end up looking like a fool.

@quarkwrok

Жыл бұрын

@@chullychullster3077 Yes, but how do you help the creator if the creator's not there?

@jackabalas

Жыл бұрын

@@quarkwrok swoosh! 😂

"They didn't say anything about the Christians" 😂 last time I checked Anglicans, baptists and catholics are Christians. 🇬🇧

@geoffmower8729

Жыл бұрын

Religious American people usually go on the other side of the wall and think that they and the Catholics are the only ones there!

@ArthurTumwine

Жыл бұрын

That was too hilarious 🤭🤭

@stereoroid

Жыл бұрын

In the USA the Anglicans are called Episcopalians, because the word “Anglican” means “English”, which was a problem after 1776 and all that.

@coot1925

Жыл бұрын

@@stereoroid why, what happened in 1776? 😂 Sorry, British sense of humour ✌❤🇬🇧

@Mediawatcher2023

8 ай бұрын

She's black

I used to watch Dave Allen when I was growing up in England back in the 70's. I remember him sitting in that chair, always smoking and drinking scotch or some other kind of alcohol. He was loved by many.

@erict956

Жыл бұрын

It was ginger ale as he would only kid on that it was alcohol

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

@@erict956 I just found out today that it was just ginger ale with ice. Too bad :)

@paulbromley6687

Жыл бұрын

Me too I always wondered why he had the top missing of his index finger

@mamag58

Жыл бұрын

@@kadzunk63 they didn't have ice back then in pubs, only at posh do's. The only thing that was cold was the barrels. The bottled beer came off the shelf.

@DaveKeenan1956

6 ай бұрын

@@paulbromley6687 It was because of a childhood accident, his finger got trapped in some old machinery. He was off school for a short period, and when he returned he would tell those who asked him about it funny stories.

The black cat is God. The Pope has found God even though he isn't there.

He did mention Christians. For one he mentioned several different denominations of Christianity before mentioning Catholics

Oh the naivety of the religious believer. It's more comic than the jokes.

Hah, thanks for presenting this, Antoinette. I actually remember "Dave Allen at Large" being broadcast repeatedly in the early 1980s, and watching it as a kid on the local PBS station. I probably didn't get half the jokes, but I got enough of them. Maybe "politically incorrect" before that term came into use, but his humor wasn't meant to be nasty, spiteful, or ridicule people (except the stupid!). The humor is even more relevant to people who are Irish, Roman Catholic, and / or BOTH! Dave Allen was an athiest, God Bless Him, but that didn't mean he was a bad person. Quite the contrary. He seemed much more honest than some who profess to be religious. Cheers!

' I have an open mind' she says....Aaawww Duuuh!

I was pre teen in the seventies and I loved that man, why? He made my mum and dad laugh so hard it was a total joy to watch. I do have one particular memory of my mum getting up suddenly half way through his show and my dad asking where she was going. Her reply? I just peed myself a bit. God that just totaly killed me. I remember being on the floor almost in pain from laughing. It is a memory I truly cherish. Thank you Dave Allen for giving me these. RIP you are truly missed.

Please read the WHOLE bible. Also the verses, never brought out in church. I promise you, if you read the whole bible, you will turn atheist too.

@love-vy1ry

Жыл бұрын

The stories are completely chaos.....

@geoffmower8729

Жыл бұрын

Most atheists have read the bible more than Christians have that's why they became atheists!

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

@@love-vy1ry the stories ARE chaos... I only found out last year when, out of curiousity, I started to read the bible. I mean everything in the bible, not just the parts we were taught to read in school. But I wouldn't recommend to be or become an atheist. Just be a non-believer. Because being an atheist would mean that you would state that there is SOMETHING to not believe in. As if you would say okay there is a God but I don't believe in it. Quite a dilemma. I am a non-believer. I don't believe in God or Jesus. But I do believe in the good that is in everyone. And that what people call "God" is simply a spark of infinity/nature/universe that every person is born with. And it is up to us ourselves to nurture that seed, or let it wither. But that is just my own feeling. And I do believe that every person has a right to their own believe or religion.

@love-vy1ry

Жыл бұрын

@@kadzunk63 Problem is that religion(s) never leave you alone.

@trevorelliott6221

Жыл бұрын

​@@kadzunk63 your logics a little flawed , atheists don't state anything, they merely reject the statements of the religious who have no evidence to prove their statements .

Anglicans and Baptists are two Christian Denominations. He mentioned them amongst all the other religions before the man asked about the large wall.

Dave Allen was the first funny storyteller on British TV. Everyone who came after him was a copy. Plenty of people think they are funny. People like Dave who were born funny dont have to try. Although often poking fun at religion, especially Catholicism which he was brought up, he always ended his shows with " May your God go with you" kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXVhy6htZdO1nKw.html

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

I liked him a lot. Especially his ending " May your God go with you". Because everybody may have his or her personal idea about God

Glass of whisky. Irish Whisky, of course.

@gwtpictgwtpict4214

Жыл бұрын

If it's Irish it's whiskey, not whisky. I shall now remove my pendant hat and shut up.

@petedempsey9435

Жыл бұрын

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 No need to remove the hat when it comes to the correct spelling of whiskey!

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

I always thought it was Irish whiskey. But today I found out that it was just ginger beer with ice... blegh! Wikipedia has burst another one of my bubbles 😢

Dave Allen's Black cat joke is based on what is known as the Black Cat Analogy, it compares Philosophy, Metaphysics, Theology and Science, he only uses two of the four parts. Philosophy: Is like being in a dark room looking for a black cat. Metaphysics: Is like being in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. Theology: Is like being in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there and shouting I've found it. Science: Is like being in a dark room looking for a black cat using a flashlight.

Atheist has never found the cat because it isn't there but the pope is imagining the cat (that isn't there) and telling everyone that he's found it x

She says it wasn't a snake it was something else , really!! the name that was used in the bible was a serpent, same thing

@Bpg5012trick

3 ай бұрын

She says it wasn't a snake, it was doughnuts and Hotdogs and stuff like that.

If you actually read the Bible you would be absolutely shocked at some of the content there’s everything from incest, rape, murder and genocide and god seems to both agree and instigate it!

@paulcaswell2813

2 ай бұрын

And most of it's blessed by that 'God' bloke.

I think the word you're looking for is serpent. Not hot dogs. 😂

He is an Irish Catholic and was banned in Irland.

Dave Allen was popular in the UK back in the 70s and 80s. There are other good comedians from that time.

He mentioned Catholics,Anglicans,Baptists,,How can you say he didn't mention any Christians?? Plenty of variations of Christianity out there. look it up.

We KNOW that there never was a "First Man" or "First Woman". The Adam andEve story is obviously made up - with giant holes in the plot.

In the name of the father and in the son AND INTO THE HOLE HE GOES 😂

The black cat joke is for open minded people…lol

You missed the beginning of the black cat joke. It's an atheist arguing with the pope about the existence of god. Dave Allen grew up in the Catholic Church but became an atheist

@RocksterOO1

Жыл бұрын

Dave Allen never actually became an atheist. His jokes were centred around the hypocrisy of organised religion more than the belief in god itself. In fact, he use to end his shows/skits/routines with "...and may your god go with you"!

@geoffmower8729

Жыл бұрын

@@RocksterOO1 No he did admit to being an atheist in an interview!

@RocksterOO1

Жыл бұрын

@@geoffmower8729 I must have missed that. Although I suspect that came a lot later in his career, based on what I mentioned in my earlier comment!

@HenrikJansson78

9 ай бұрын

@@RocksterOO1 4:50 into this clip "I am what you might call a practicing atheist." So not really that hard to figure out he was an atheist. :)

@DaveKeenan1956

7 ай бұрын

Dave, like every child was born an atheist, he was raised in a Catholic environment, then he started to use his mind, and lost his faith in bronze age explanations. This charming happy lady I think may lack the intellectual training to lose her faith. I have no problem with that if her beliefs don't negatively affect others.

Nobody went to the pub till after the Dave Allen show

The black cat that the atheist claims the Pope found is 'god !!!

You really aren’t the sharpest tool in the shed😂

In that joke about the black cat in the darkened room I got a totally different meaning. I thought the black cat was a representation of religion. Therefore, when the Pope says you haven't found the black cat he's saying to the Atheist you have yet to find religion (or God), whereas the Atheist then says in reply but you are the same except that you've found religion or God because you found the black cat whereas I'm still searching. Anyway, still funny as far as I'm concerned. Dave Allen was a comic genius

They were having a conversation during the garden of Eden. What was the kind of Language that was being used at the time up to the creation of the Babylonian Tower?

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

apparantly it was some kind of universal language (perhaps Hebrew) since the bible says that the scattering of the language so that nobody would understand one another, was only AFTER the Babylonian Tower was destroyed

@wtchtower

Жыл бұрын

@@kadzunk63 Adam and Eve can communicate with the Animals, couldn't that there telepathic during those times and what was switched off during the time of Babylon for the humans were so noisy. genesis 11:7 Come, let "US" go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech. What kind of Language that can annoy a God, and who US? What kind of language that can communicate with a Snake? 😆 The hebrew/Canaanite language came on the later part.

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

@@wtchtower Well, Harry Potter used Parseltongue 😉

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

@@wtchtower Interesting! I've never thought about telepathic language. I read that Adam was assigned the naming of the animals etc, so I figured that was only for allowing the people to name the animals etc. Because the animals wouldn't be talking back :) * Quote: genesis 11:7 Come, let "US" go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech. What kind of Language that can annoy a God, and who US? * end of quote: Why wouldn't God say "US"? Kings and Queens do it all the time :)

@seanscanlon9067

Жыл бұрын

@@kadzunk63 Apparently Donald Trump uses telepathic language to declassify government documents.

It was a Naga, possibly Lilith. They changed it to a snake because they recognized the universal fear/hate reflex most people have.

The pope found god, the atheist didn’t. Joke, both looking for something that isn’t there but one found it.

He's found the black cat - he's got ....faith.

The black cat is god

It didn't happen. It's a joke...like religion. But good luck to you, and all power to you. You seem to be nice, and that still counts for something.

It's about an explination for the universe... The Athiest is in a dark room, blindfolded looking for a black cat that isn't there (the explination) the Pope found the black cat that wasn't there (God)

It's a comedy, not a documentary.

Found a black cat that isn't there. Claimed of to have found a God that isn't the real true Creator of all things.

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

might have claimed to have found a God that wasn't there. But because of himself being the Pope would never be able or allowed to tell that to people because the Pope would have to keep people believing in God. A bit like the fairytale The Emperor's New clothes...

Interesting how people don't even know their own religion. "He didn't say nothing about Christians!" Anglicans, Baptists, and Catholics mentioned in the video: Are we a joke to you?

I like his way of always teasing the Religions, no matter which ones but it is obvious that he likes to go after the chatolic church maybe because he was raised as one him self. The scriptures are hard to take serious. So many things that do not add up. Like Kain going out in the world and found a wife. How did he do that. If Adam and Eve where the first people and Cain Abel and Seth where their sons how was there any other people in other places of the world. Then some try to explain it could be a daughter of Adam and Eve that had not been mentioned. But then why go out in the world to find her, she most have been somewhere around and also if this was the case would that not be considered incest and therefore not allowed.

@geoffmower8729

Жыл бұрын

The whole book is full of contradictions and scientifically proven false statements !

@Nekoksu

Жыл бұрын

Also God never abolished slavery. Also also he is god... He knew all of this would happen before hand, so why should he be angry about anything that a man does? Why are some people so stupid?

The black cat was not there so the man told the Pope he found that black cat.

It was a serpent, which in the Biblical narrative, was a snake, so Dave is correct.

Anything from the word of your chosen god to check the smoke alarm batteries?

I'm eating a crunchy, juicy 🟢 apple right now😅

If we all came from Adam and Eve then there was some naughty things going on.

Dave allen on doctors and smokers 😢

FYI, Catholics are Christians but just a different branch of Christianity. There are other branches of Christianity such as protestants, Baptists, Anglicans etc

What language is she speaking.... translation ?

Dave allen on doctors and smokers very funny

God is the cat

You remind me of my sister. So full of happiness that I automatically subscribed 😊

There is a huge difference between being religious n spiritual

@Nekoksu

Жыл бұрын

Define "spiritual" That is just as cringe as the old video where the dude said that "I hate religion, but love jesus". Just become an atheist like normal people.

@kadzunk63

Жыл бұрын

@@Nekoksu I am spiritual but not religious. That means that I do believe in a higher power in nature. But I do NOT believe in God of Jesus because I consider them to be man-made. The Christian bible is a book that was dictated by the Catholic church (especially the New Testament. And the Catholic church developed from the Romans that were around at the time the bible tells us that Jesus was alive. For me it just doesn't feel right. I believe that what people call "God" is simply a spark of infinity/nature that every person is born with and it is up to us ourselves to nurture that seed, or let it wither. But that is just my own feeling. And I do believe that every person has a right to their own believe or religion.

@westnblu

Жыл бұрын

@@kadzunk63 but it works the same with atheists. Many ppl claim they are atheists by which they mean they don't attend church or some other religious place of worship, and they don't believe in a deity but @ the same time they spend a small fortune on psychics.

@seanscanlon9067

Жыл бұрын

@@kadzunk63 In what ways are you spiritual?

@seanscanlon9067

Жыл бұрын

@@westnblu I will go out on a limb here and suggest that if atheists are not gullible enough to believe in God, then they are not likely to believe in psychics either.

The black cat equates to your belief in God.

Hi Antionette as a new subscriber I love you’re channel plz keep it great love 😘😘😘

Religious Robot.

.. they change fire alarm batteries? .. ya, THEY

Snake/serpent

THAT THE AVERAGE OLD AGE OR LIFE 40

Temptation

The athesiast is saying to the Pope that his belief in God equates to the the blind folded man in a totally dark room who has found the black cat. In effect the Pope's belief in God is the same as the blind folded man believing he found the black cat.

What you don't seem to realise, Antoinette, is that DA is undermining the nonsense of religion.

It wasnt a snake cos it had legs and god removed them to punish it

God is the black cat that isn't there. Get it now?

Godd not there buy you found him

Sorry, you obviously still believe in that black cat that isn't there 🙂

The atheist accuses the pope of finding something, God, that does not exist.

Shes a bit slow on picking up the joke. But america has a different sense of humour

@diddsdaddiddsdad6865

2 ай бұрын

They don’t get it do they🤭

WHY DID YOU BOTHER WATCHING DAVE ALLEN ?? QUITE OBVIOUS YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOUR. HIS JOKES TOTALLY OVER YOUR HEAD 😮😮😴😑

🍩🌭

"Wait" ? Why?

Whatch davie Allan Airplane.

Girl, don't overthink Bible, otherwise you might become atheist as well :D We know it wasn't snake. It was black cat :)

hello love

You are an open minded Christian so i just subscribed 💓💋

Don't put your modern religious biases on his comedy.

I don't get the black cat thing either.

@RichardJohansson

Жыл бұрын

There are several comments here before yours explaining the joke.

@grash4435

Жыл бұрын

Pop did find the black cat which is not there. The black cat represents GOD. It means god doesn't exist.,, isn't there. ,,

Black women don't understand English humour

so much context missing. Just sad people react to compilations. And why is it that every black person on KZread has their fire alarm chirping like they're trying to be the stereotype.

The Devil

Alcohol does more damage than anyone will accept who drinks it, you do not need to try it to know that.

@Nekoksu

Жыл бұрын

Can someone translate this guys comment?

@MrTrevisco

Жыл бұрын

@@Nekoksu you drunk 😀

@trevorelliott6221

Жыл бұрын

At least that's evidence that alcohol not only exist, but does something!

@katedeneiffe-cerny2351

Жыл бұрын

Dave Allen was a satirist, particularly clever with his religious satire. I think he was an Atheist anyway. How brilliant he was with his humor. Kate Australia

@katedeneiffe-cerny2351

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't alcohol in that glass, just ginger ale !! Kate

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