Many of you will remember the Irish comedian Dave Allen who was so popular on television.
He’s all over YouTube but there is one sketch I can remember but can’t find, so I turn to the SDMB.
It was about a fictional meeting between the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Somehow they get into an argument and challenge each other to a duel. It’s a joust actually, they are carried towards each other on those elevated chairs, using their bishop’s crooks as lances. I don’t remember how it ends.
Can a fan help me out? I loved this guy’s show Dave Allen at Large.
Can’t help you, but heartily agree that Dave Allen was fantastic. I remember another scene where he’s playing a bishop or some other church higher-up and he’s walking with the incense burner. He then starts rotating until it’s apparent he’s going to toss it like a hammer-throw in a decathlon.
I can’t help with your sketch either but I loved Dave Allen when I was little and it’s refreshing to see him mentioned again. I used to watch him along with Benny Hill and Monty Python when I was like 10 years old, so around 1983, probably reruns by then. Sometimes I had to ask my dad to explain the jokes.
I just remember Dave Allen sitting in that chair with a glass of rye or whatever beside him saying “It seems there was a man who… (insert joke here)”
Did anybody else notice the tip of his one finger was missing?
Was this the guy who had a spaceman character with a female assistant who was a platinum blond, green-skinned cutie? And he usually honked one of her boobs?
I remember what he said about his index finger once. He was speaking about “Things to do when you are stuck in traffic, to amuse yourself and those around you…” He stuck his index finger up to his nose and made digging motions. One of the guys I was watching this with said “Hey, I can do that!” because he was missing most of one of his thumbs.
I loved the short sketch he did where, dressed as a clergyman, he entered a church and the baptismal font began to pursue him, shrieking* “Exterminate! Exterminate! Destroy!”* His character leaped into the pulpit which bacan making whooshing noises and promptly disappeared.