WOW~!
Thanks for taking me back to my teen years! And yes, I did recall the sawed off shotgun gag.
I always loved his show. The way he would sit in the chair onstage, ALWAYS with a scotch on the rocks. And stirring it with the midget digit!
Fighting what since when?
Sweet! I thought I made this show up in my fertile little head…I remember sneaking into the room when my parents watched Dave Allen on PBS at 10 pm Sundays, then Doctor Who at 10:30-ish. I haven’t seen it in more than ten years, though. Where are you again, Tuckerfan?
I’m in Nashvegas (Nashville), Tennessee. Sort of, anyway. Actually about 20 minutes away. I live in that town (Gallatin) that made the news a while back because they arrested some teens who were planning on killing the Backstreet Boys.
I remember Dave. When I was a kid the local PBS ran Dave back to back with Paul Hogan’s TV show. It was an hour of TV my whole family actually sat and watched together.
And I still remember the Catholic jokes he used to tell, I’ll even trot them out on occasion. It was a very funny show. So leave room on the couch for me, Tucker.
IMHO, (oh, dear, that’s another forum) the best Dave Allen joke ever was: (paraphrasing a 10 + year memory, please don’t get out the tape and nitpick)
A young man walks into a bar and says “Excuse me, but aren’t you Blaine Sheldon-Smyth, the great colonel who led our troops in India?” “Why, yes, young man, I am.” “Oh, can you tell me your most exciting adventure in India?” “Well, one day, I was walking through the jungle alone when out jumped a tiger. Twenty-one feet he was, from tip of nose to tip of tail. And he went ‘ROOOOOAAAARRRRR.’ I fouled me breeches.” “Uh, well, that is natural enough…” “Not then, young man, just now when I went ‘ROOOAAARR.’”
I loved Dave Allen.
Wow! Just got here, and I find a thread about Dave Allen…
My favorite joke from his show is the story of Admiral Nelson, who said to his cabin boy upon sighting the first French frigate, “Go below and get my red shirt. I may be wounded in the battle, and I don’t want to demoralize my men,” or words to that effect. Suddenly the lookout cries “Forty Frog frigates off the port bow!” So Nelson says to the cabin boy, “…and while you’re down there, bring my brown pants…”
Ah, yes, what memories. PBS in Chicago (WTTW Channel 11) used to have a wonderful Sunday night lineup-Monty Python at 10, Dave Allen at 10:30, three episodes of Dr. Who at 11, then (for a while) The Two Ronnies at 12:30. How many Mondays was I dragging my sleepy butt around my high school all day after four hours sleep? But man, it was worth it!