No one will ever take his place. Dave Allen was way ahead of his time. RIP Dave, an absolute legend.
@harrystone2588
2 жыл бұрын
i respectfully disagree, this man was absolutely of his time, and i believe we should all look back to it for inspiration moving forward. i do agree with you on one point, however, RIP.
@DavidHarvey-po9le
2 ай бұрын
A great story teller and wit - he shall be missed.
@boogoodie
3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely adore Dave Allen. I remember as a young kid sitting down to watch his show with mum,dad and my siblings. When he was telling his stories, you wouldn’t here a peep out of us kids, as we were held mesmerised on every word, until the punchline and we’d all roar with laughter. Thank you Dave Allen for all your stories and comedy. You will be forever in my heart.
@geoffrosemichael9193
2 жыл бұрын
And all his humour was clean. No unnecessary swear words that so many comedians feel they have to litter their jokes with. Just good, clean funny material.
@MrHistorian123
2 жыл бұрын
Dave Allen was the best story teller I've ever seen. Inspired by this, in the early 80s I told a ghost story like this (not the same one) to a group of students late at night on a study trip to a remote house on the Yorkshire Moors. I used very similar techniques to Dave Allen (lights off, torch between my knees, gradual lowering of the voice to a whisper) in a very intimate environment and, at the climax of the joke, almost all the students came close to soiling their underwear. Unfortunately, word got back to my department and I was advised (under pain of the removal of my academic tenure) not to do it again. But it was funny.
@elizabethmcloughlin1984
3 ай бұрын
Good for you. Sounds like your story came close to the divine Mr Allen's. XX ❤❤
@bohdanfedyk
3 жыл бұрын
He was absolutely the best. I remember watching all his shows, the whole family did. He was/still is so funny. He remains, to my mind, the best ever.
@kathleenadams2268
4 жыл бұрын
A great comedian. Story teller. His sketches. Was amazing Loved watching this mans pure wit. Both myself and my husband thought he was a comic genius.
@peterdoe2617
9 ай бұрын
He surely was. One of the greatest of all time!
@brianstewart8705
2 жыл бұрын
After all these years I still remember that joke told so masterfully by Dave. Could anyone else have made it work so well. A classic.
@stuartspurs4704
2 жыл бұрын
One of those jokes you wish you could tell but can't. Class😂
@Tiddybeth
5 жыл бұрын
I miss Dave Allen so much, he was the funniest man ever born.
@DJYAD19
4 жыл бұрын
When did he die?
@shtcare
4 жыл бұрын
@@DJYAD19 when he stopped breathing
@DJYAD19
4 жыл бұрын
@@shtcare Which year?
@cidamaria3369
3 жыл бұрын
@@shtcare lol
@MartinDolan
2 жыл бұрын
Same year he stopped breathing. Weird coincidence eh?
@grahamboffey457
3 жыл бұрын
He could tell a tale. Used to scare the bejesus out of me when I was a kid.
@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164
8 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to hear him read classic horror stories. He has an amazing voice. Brilliant!
@manchesterblue2007
5 жыл бұрын
dave allen reads edgar allen poe what could be better?
@satozaroubi3651
5 жыл бұрын
manchesterblue2007 Dave Allen readings of Edgar Allen Poe’s poems
@RunnerBeanzDad
2 жыл бұрын
I remember him appearing on a TV chat show at Halloween one year. The interviewer gave him a ghost story to read. He read it brilliantly. The studio lights slowly dimmed while he read. It was atmospheric, enthralling, spellbinding. The studio audience was silent, hanging on his every word. He reached the final page. It was missing . . . .
@itsazappathingthesonof272
4 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful comedian. Well missed. We need more "Dave Allens".
@daveallenwex1962
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@Berkett
3 жыл бұрын
Dylan Moran, good comedian
@freefallin3693
3 жыл бұрын
Today's generation couldn't cope with a Dave Allen.
@videowilliams
Жыл бұрын
I've been looking for this for decades, I'm not kidding! All I remembered from my boyhood was the punchline. And just found out, after all these years... it was a 9 and not a 4. With Mr. Allen, it was all in the delivery.
@idleonlooker1078
4 жыл бұрын
He was absolutely superb at story telling!! 👍
@PtolemyJones
2 жыл бұрын
What a great voice, and an amazing story teller. Pace, tone, he had it all. He would have been awesome on radio, especially a horror show I think.
@Einstein852
5 жыл бұрын
He's irish and they tell the best stories. Mu dad was Irish and used to tell us such wonderful stories. I thought Dave Allen was the handsomest man I'd ever seen. And the funniest. Don't make them like him anymore
@cl759
4 жыл бұрын
Lol u right they have the gift of the gob and the charm
@tinabaker4662
3 жыл бұрын
Gab not the gob!
@barrydaws4602
3 жыл бұрын
He's mother was English
@kingcurry6594
3 жыл бұрын
Many years ago, I'd taken a group of students on a retreat to do some in depth study. We were staying in an old farmhouse and late in the evening, somebody asked if it was haunted and the conversation turned to ghosts. I'd seen Dave do this on TV and decided to tell a different story in the same style, pretending it was true. After 10 minutes, they were all on edge and I delivered the punch line. The punch line of mine was (in a weird unearthly voice) "I'm not a little girl, I'm a ...at which point I shouted at the top of my voice and leapt towards the students. They all jumped about 4 feet in the air. None of them would sleep that night. Two had to go back to the campus. And I was banned from ever telling any more ghost stories. Dave Allen was an utter comic genius and the best story teller of all time.
@paulstevenson7173
3 жыл бұрын
The master, no other word for him, loved watching him since I was a kid
@eamonquinn5188
3 жыл бұрын
Dave Allen and Billy Connolly were in their different ways, masters of telling a comedic story. We miss you Dave, and Billy, I hope you are well.
@PanglossDr
5 жыл бұрын
Best of all is, he makes you forget it is a joke.
@fardaypu
9 жыл бұрын
this scared me at 12 yrs old and still gets me at 45 ,the excellent mr dave allen, still missed in 2014.
@barbaranecker5719
6 жыл бұрын
still missed in 2017 --I NEED some laughs to offset the horror of Donald J. Trump here in America
@GenghisAttenborough
5 жыл бұрын
Me too! I was totally absorbed into it, what a great story teller!
@obsidiandwarf
5 жыл бұрын
And still, in 2019.
@davidbenjamin9400
5 жыл бұрын
@car ger hey..i like science fiction; too..but where TF are you getting your information from?? Doofy is a YUUUUGE sell out!
@tinabaker4662
4 жыл бұрын
car ger nonsense
@poguemuhhon1035
9 жыл бұрын
brill, the best at his trade , no one does it like Dave , and no one has ,
@hitcher1779
7 жыл бұрын
or ever will be able to
@hitcher1779
7 жыл бұрын
or ever will be able to
@brigitauna4764
5 жыл бұрын
pogue muhhon Bravo, well said!😃
@rajeevratnalikar5142
7 жыл бұрын
what an orator he was !!
@robinkhalawan3564
4 жыл бұрын
A chilling tale from a master storyteller, with a comic twist in the tail.
@elbecko7969
3 жыл бұрын
He was such a straightforward, personable man, but it's so cool that he could secure a swish theme tune, don a sharp suit, take a seat, light a cigarette and capture a studio and television audience just by speaking.
@johnanthonyp
Жыл бұрын
Probably walked Vegas if he wasn't so cynical of it all
@likeaboss6421
2 жыл бұрын
I still remember him telling this story when I was a kid in the 70s I never forgot this particular story 😱😀
@GenghisAttenborough
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, I remember this when it was on TV, love Dave Allen, he was a treasure!
@helendanposh6168
2 жыл бұрын
Was a huge fan "back then" and he still makes me shriek with laughter now. One of the best comedian's ever. Eat your hearts out the pathetic ones today!
@leftcoaster67
5 жыл бұрын
That's how you sell a horror story.
@gailcollins2397
3 жыл бұрын
Heard him tell that story so many times and I always laugh . Brilliant comedian
@proculusjulius7035
2 жыл бұрын
What's it about? I didn't quite catch the punchline.
@rastamangong31
9 ай бұрын
yeah me 2 lol so if someone would kindly explain it twould be greatfully appreciated @@proculusjulius7035
@nchia
5 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this on TV, can’t remember when... 80s? The punchline was burned in my memory!
@tonymcguinness3886
4 жыл бұрын
And into the sole of your shoe, presumably...
@martinlaw449
8 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Dave 1 of the best r.i.p
@yvettekopp2450
4 жыл бұрын
I was 12 or 13 when I started watching Dave Allen at large. I would watch Mary Hartman Mary Hartman before this show. He remains my favorite story teller. Brilliant '
@davestinson2323
2 жыл бұрын
I always remember this sketch from when I was a boy, i used to tell it at school and try to sound like him. Legend .
@mickdunne981
2 жыл бұрын
What a legend he was brilliant RIP 🙏 Dave Allen
@pmajudge
2 жыл бұрын
TOTALLY BRILLANT !!!!!! I REMEBER WATCHING WITH GREAT INTENSE !!! AND GOT A BOLTED SURPRISE !!!! ROCKED WITH LAUGHTER !!!!!!! R.I.P. DAVE ALLEN . GREATEST IRISH MAN WHO WAS SO HILARIOUS & FUNNY !!!!!! BLESS HIM . FROM U.K. (2021).
@leishayoung4124
6 жыл бұрын
Love it! If you've ever heard 'the tennis ball joke', it's of the same variety. I just love it for the amazing quality of the storytelling. It takes real skill to bring a captive audience into a story like that; to create intimacy in an otherwise very 'public' environment. Fantastic!!
@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826
5 жыл бұрын
A real legend !
@fionamckechnie8539
5 жыл бұрын
An amazing comedian who tells a story about anything really, and tells it in such a way that you can’t help but hang on every word. I grew up watching Mr. Allan and now have the opportunity to hear it as an adult and “get the many jokes” I surely missed when I watched it the first time, at an age range of 7~11. Cheers
@KK-bl1dd
Ай бұрын
One of the great .....clean humour❤
@alessioandreoli2145
2 ай бұрын
I lived many years in Ireland and never heard of him. It is a joy to listen to his jokes and observing his style.
@trollsnotwelcome7805
Жыл бұрын
Such happy memories of watching Dave Allen as a child with my family. Oh to go back for just one more of those nights ❤
@johnanthonyp
7 жыл бұрын
This man has the most captivating magnetism I have ever seen. Thank God he dismissed religion otherwise his new church would have us lined up.
@stormwatcher59
5 жыл бұрын
LOL!!!
@annsullivan262
5 жыл бұрын
rip dave u are a legend
@bangersnmash4856
2 жыл бұрын
I used to love these stories when I was a kid, brilliant
@gaidamangphaomei7964
4 жыл бұрын
Dammmnn. ...!!! Everyone's asleep here ..n I just burst out laughing
@yugensmith1295
5 жыл бұрын
been looking for this for over 30 years! thanks.
@calebrush3833
6 жыл бұрын
Bloody brilliant!
@carmenhorsman9041
5 жыл бұрын
Love 😍 him! Robin Williams (manic mode) was hilarious too. Just nuts. 😆
@donnyrover1
8 жыл бұрын
Think this was from Dave Allen at Large ,back in the mid 70s, remember watching as a lad , he would be sat down with a table next to him with a tumbler of what looked like whisky, and a tab on the go ..it was unmissable back in the day, brilliant stuff !
@keithhelton3178
7 жыл бұрын
phil osophical...I recall seeing some of his shows likewise...Early mid 70s if memory serves...
@ericscaillet2232
4 жыл бұрын
And a cigarette. ....
@donnyrover1
4 жыл бұрын
@@ericscaillet2232 yes mate, a"tab", English slang for a cigarette
@louisethompson6225
5 жыл бұрын
Date Allen was a one off. Very funny man R. I. P
@alanmotion9925
6 жыл бұрын
He's the funnyest man ever the best.
@kjamison5951
2 ай бұрын
I remember having the privilege of watching him live on stage. Apart from a twenty minute break just past the middle, he did four hours solid and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. The tears of laughter were streaming down our faces.
@sweetpea3795
2 жыл бұрын
One of the best comedian's ever, he had a way of making you laugh so much it hurt, and he never laughed at his own jokes & stories. Miss him so much, comedians today are just not funny. R.I.P Dave your fans will never forget you. 😍😍🤣🤣
@aileenlightbody91
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant - had tingles going up and down my spine because I've had a few supernatural experiences myself - and then came the hilarious punchline.
@pauldayus
2 жыл бұрын
I will always hold this gentleman in high esteem, class personified. I remember Dad and I watching this when I was a pup, quietly so Mum wouldn't bollock us both 😅
@zed_infinity
6 жыл бұрын
Still makes me laugh even though you know its coming for the 100th time =,D
@roohamm2456
Жыл бұрын
I've always loved this story. Dave Allen told it better than no other...
@robedmunds7163
2 ай бұрын
Sadly missed, but we can still enjoy his timeless humor.
@fairpoint457
9 жыл бұрын
Classic Dave!
@johnanthonyp
7 жыл бұрын
He is awesome. He has that Hopkins power but he does it live!
@SpiritintheSky.
13 күн бұрын
My great thanks to J.J. Veltri for making available so many wonderful Dave Allen videos. May Dave Allen rest in peace (and continue to amuse his new audience).
@rexgeorg7324
5 жыл бұрын
Legend
@richardsharpe2966
6 жыл бұрын
Dave Allen use to tell great goast and horror stories and he make the noise to
@bettertoolatethannever
3 жыл бұрын
legend
@vinnygordon3833
4 жыл бұрын
Fresh, like they were told today.
@DeirdreCatherineDoyle
Жыл бұрын
GOT TO LAUGH. MY ENGLISH IS SO PERFECT NO ONE SUSPECTS I AM IRISH! LIKE MY NAME IS NOT A CLUE. WE LOVE STORIES AND WE LOVE THE CRAIC ...
@JustWasted3HoursHere
4 жыл бұрын
I could see the punchline coming a mile away, but his delivery was spot on, making it funny regardless.
@stephenjames1443
4 жыл бұрын
A rare good memory with the old man,on the telly.
@adamjbgames
4 жыл бұрын
It seems a stereotype that us Irish can tell a story with ease. When I try to tell a story I either A get lost off or B nobody listens lol 🤣
@christinem9830
4 жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha same though
@anniemay4547
3 жыл бұрын
AdamJBChef Dave was a master may he rest in peace ❤️
@spcdotie9250
7 жыл бұрын
Comic Genius
@micchaelfearn5163
Жыл бұрын
Dave was absolute class one. 😉
@davidsteele6563
2 жыл бұрын
Simply put...Dave Allen was a funny man!
@frankybakker5692
3 жыл бұрын
Still missed in 2021
@gavinbennett1849
2 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant story teller Allen was , rip.
@Heisenberg51901
2 ай бұрын
As a kid (and an adult) I thought this was such a great and ultimately funny story. As a storyteller Dave Allen had no peer
@vickihenderson2731
2 жыл бұрын
So mis him very clever man ❤
@sheilamcglary7011
Жыл бұрын
I love you Dave Rip
@successmeditations110
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite monologue
@fionatanzer5270
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant raconteur
@shirleyhare6177
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!
@introspectivedreamer3864
Жыл бұрын
thanks so much for posting this masterpiece from this so very great man
@muppetmike69
2 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂 the man was a genius
@rebelchatbout8499
2 жыл бұрын
LEGEND, 👏👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@cidamaria3369
3 жыл бұрын
Amei! ❤
@thomasgargano8813
2 жыл бұрын
Haven is at peace…. I can see st.Peter just laughing his ass off at his jokes!! R.I.P. Dave.😂😂😂😂😂😂
@alisterdownie1494
2 жыл бұрын
My favourite Dave Allen ghost story was the Devil taking the man's humph. I can't seem to find it anywhere.
@ajithmadan609
2 жыл бұрын
God doesn't make such witty storytellers and comics anymore, does He? 😅 Really admire this man ❤️ Being from Gen Z, I really wish my generation gets a taste of this rather than shoddy, tasteless comedies we see today 🤦♂️
@irenabevans3411
2 жыл бұрын
Hilarious loved the end
@seamushenry3407
2 жыл бұрын
Yes that was a brilliant ghost story but the size 9 put the cap on it
@TheMightsparrow
2 жыл бұрын
So....he put the message in the wrong shoe? Either that or I'm missing the punchline. Anyone?
@alphabravo8703
2 жыл бұрын
It was a cute anticlimax.
@livedandletdie
6 жыл бұрын
Size 9. That's really scary.
@barneyrubbles2485
Жыл бұрын
so dave called on the BOGGYMAN TO STAY IN THE ROOM < R.I.P DAVE YOU WERE GREAT TO WATCH.
@blakesliberator3197
4 жыл бұрын
Am I be the only one on Earth who doesn't get this joke?...
@ericscaillet2232
4 жыл бұрын
It would take a bit to explain. ...let's just keep it at size 9😉
@danceswithcritters
3 жыл бұрын
There was supposed to be a message on the shoe. It didn't quite go as planned .
@boogoodie
3 жыл бұрын
You must be. Dave Allen was an absolute genius. If you don’t get it, you never will. You have to have sarcastic wit in your genes. I’m a Pomie. This sort of humour is English through and through. Love British humour. 🥰😂
@mkeibergin3775
2 ай бұрын
I thought it was Irish
@jimbehr2291
6 жыл бұрын
😨😁👍👏
@inner-path
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t get it? Can someone explain the punchline?
@janseary
2 жыл бұрын
No one comes close!
@pizzalover885
5 жыл бұрын
Allan Partridge
@artyfarty3
6 жыл бұрын
Today one sees three words - "Made in China" lol ;)
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