Dave Allen BBC2 now

Holgatewall said:
Ive just caught up with it on iplayer.

Excellent stuff but shows how times have changed.
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Even the genius of Monty Python doesn't stand up today’s standards at times.
Dave Allen’s stand up stuff in the early 90s is still very funny.

 
Borobarmy said:
It was a magic time wasn’t it ?

Dave Allen
Morcambe & Wise
d*ck Emery
Tommy Cooper
Frank Spencer
Little and Large
Des O Connor
Mike Yarwood
Rod Hull
Two Ronnie
Benny Hill
Les Dawson

Not to mention Steptoe, Porridge, Rising Damp and Only Fools etc

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Magic TV that we just thought was the norm . Blimey compared to now it’s unbelievable how lucky we were
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Most, if not all would be banned now by the 'snowflakes' and PC brigade for causing offence.
 
Foggysfplandiet3 said:
Indeed.

Now we have SHOYTE like Celebrity Juice (in fact anything with that grinning idiot Lemon in it), Fleabag, Citizen Khan, Count Arthur Strong, Plebs, the Rangatation and Mrs. Browns Boys. Give me Dave Allen, any day.
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Not one of these would make me laugh at all. But they tick the right trendy, PC boxes, so we are stuck with them.
 
The real genius of Dave Allen was, unlike almost everyone else, before or since, his mastery of the silence, the long pause, the patient build up. It takes enormous self control to keep people waiting so long for the pay off. It's a tool most people who get up on stage find very difficult to use. No wonder. For a young comic the nerves and adrenalin must be racing. I know he used to love telling kids ghost stories and keeping them enthralled with suspense. I guess it was a skill developed from or in tandem with that.

Steven Wright, the american surreal one liner comic had the same laid back control, though the type of gag was very different. A number of comics could tell long jokes or stories but there were usually relatively frantic.

Stewart Lee is the only other comedian who can do this any where near as well that I can think of.
 
Lefty said:
The real genius of Dave Allen was, unlike almost everyone else, before or since, his mastery of the silence, the long pause, the patient build up. It takes enormous self control to keep people waiting so long for the pay off. It's a tool most people who get up on stage find very difficult to use. No wonder. For a young comic the nerves and adrenalin must be racing. I know he used to love telling kids ghost stories and keeping them enthralled with suspense. I guess it was a skill developed from or in tandem with that.

Steven Wright, the american surreal one liner comic had the same laid back control, though the type of gag was very different. A number of comics could tell long jokes or stories but there were usually relatively frantic.

Stewart Lee is the only other comedian who can do this any where near as well that I can think of.
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Steven Wright really makes me laugh out loud. Very dry, very wry, very funny
 
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