It’s not just the content in his observations, it’s the intensity with which they are punctuated and the dramatic pauses before the punchline. “I’ve been living with a couple. Their names are… dad and… mum.”
@James Rowden , agreed. Their is probably a degree of media training but you have to admit, the Allen/Beckett accent spectrum is pretty wide for two guys from the same school.
@Me Obvs He's proper bitchy in that it's playful & obviously so. But not playful as in play with your food cat to mouse, it's playful as in 'join me as an equal or even if you're the butt of my jokes I'm still looking towards/focussed on making you laugh & be merry too'.
Tom Allen is a consummate performer. His delivery and timing are spot on. i always sit with an expectant smile on my face when I see him appearing on any show, or doing his stand up work. Such a fun-gi. The erotic literature bit had me in stitches!!
I utterly adore Tom. Everything that comes out of his mouth has me in stitches. In another life, if I was born and raised in London and had a way with words, he’d be my spirit animal. XD
The UK has so many smart, hilarious comics, and they get so much more airtime than in America. Thanks for posting great clips here on RUclips like these of the amazing Mr. Allen.
There's gay comedians who just go talk about their genitals, but Tom Allen and Alan Carr are the best comedians when it comes to making fun of their own sexuality. Allen's like a gay version of Sean Locke.
purplerains, while I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you either, Susan Calman, Sandi Toksvig (although both of them typically only mention genitals either when talking about feminism or when relating anecdotes), sue Perkins, Matt Lucas, Joe Lycett, Graham Norton, Zoe Lyons and Gina Yashere among other LGBTQ comedians frequently refer to their genitals, or genitalia in general in their material
It's been a while since I have cried laughing. I saw Tom Allen at the Edinburgh Fringe some years ago. That was a witty, constructed stand-up set. But trust me, he is funnier now. Oh me, if I had the money, I'd buy him that rugby team.
When this is all over we need a show featuring Linda and a sister who's always been green with Envy and the rest of the family make sure they don't string you along 😉I can't believe I'm actually making comments about a bloody balloon 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you've made my week again also on a personal level I love your suits 😍😁
I love Tom so much. I hate that he doesn't have any DVDs out. This needs rectifying. Even if they do one of all his best bits for now and then he does some stand up! I'd love to see him live just him xxxxx
An unusually well formulated sentence for someone from Doncaster... I suppose that’s the great thing about being inbred you never know what you’ll get from the mutations!
The other thing with tomcis he's only a couple of years older than me so a lot of his stories and observations from when he was a kid remind me of my childhood too xxxxx
At 2:45, I couldn't make out where Jimmy's vegetables came from when he answered Tom's question about where he got his vegetables from. So I thought I'd re-run that bit with the captions on. It said he got his vegetables from a bear in the kitchen. I don't think you're spending enough time on writing the captions, Channel 4.
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You're toying with me C4!
How can your comment be from 3 days ago?
Dear Channel 4.. Can you please follow up with having Rachel Riley bring in those childhood dress up photos' and show them;)
@@TheOriginalDeckBoysays so much about you... 🤮
"Do you mind me asking your age?"
*"Yes"*
@@tobyisraw2769 Simp
@@tobyisraw2769 nah mate
When the fuck did I comment this
@@loudsketching lmfaooo
"I love company but I can't stand other people" is the most relatable thing I've ever heard.
My immediate reaction to that line was: "Well obviously. You're a theater kid."
It’s not just the content in his observations, it’s the intensity with which they are punctuated and the dramatic pauses before the punchline. “I’ve been living with a couple. Their names are… dad and… mum.”
@You are correct But the first
I love the fact that he and Rob Becket went to the same school. Always gives them a unique interaction that makes me laugh
The "we weren't even in the same class" response to robs "we weren't in the same classes" went under the radar a bit.
does anyone know the episode and season for that?
@James Rowden , agreed. Their is probably a degree of media training but you have to admit, the Allen/Beckett accent spectrum is pretty wide for two guys from the same school.
My Nan taught them when they were at school together !!
Louis Sanderson He’s not he puts it on.
“I didn’t know what homophobia was until I met you” 😭😭😭
Such a brilliant joke, obviously only works with a gay comedian. But it’s Tom’s deadpan delivery that makes it so funny!
'How did you make that so flirty?'
'... its the spring'
My favorite line of the episode.
And then the way he resentfully pushes the photo over. 🤣
“I mean, she liked the man, but not enough to hold down the shift key.” 🤣🤣🤣
3:20 "Still broken." Sad and excellent, and the audience agreed.
Yeah, actually thought he was moving on to his next bit so it was even a surprise.
This guy is a breath of fresh air to British comedy. So quick witted, with just the right touch of bitchy.
nah its the gay bit ,its in our body,hes fully charged ,he is an actual legend in the making a defo icon i think!
@Me Obvs He's proper bitchy in that it's playful & obviously so. But not playful as in play with your food cat to mouse, it's playful as in 'join me as an equal or even if you're the butt of my jokes I'm still looking towards/focussed on making you laugh & be merry too'.
@@justincronkright5025 …yeah
Yes, love him 💞
If you close your eyes, his voice is like a camp version of David Mitchell’s. Love them both
Holy shit you're right lol
Holy shit
Wow. It really does
serendipidus1 it’s way campier, but I hear it
serendipidus1 yeah I love them both
His delivery is SPOT ON!
“How dare you interrupt me” 😂
Tom is the only one who can make Jimmy look underdressed
"I love it in the arts" got me good.
Took me ages to get that one.
He would be soooo good on taskmaster!! Best dictionary corner guests 🤣
Tom Allen is a consummate performer. His delivery and timing are spot on. i always sit with an expectant smile on my face when I see him appearing on any show, or doing his stand up work. Such a fun-gi.
The erotic literature bit had me in stitches!!
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“What an opening!”
Do people regularly send you a picture of their AR$€H0L£?
Next Gen Trent Yeah, all the bloody time...
@@ajfrostx in that case, definitely use it!
Next Gen Trent I will, in a slightly modified way - so the sender won’t be able to assume I’m approving of such behaviour 😤
@@ajfrostx Perhaps 'What a shit opening!'?
I utterly adore Tom. Everything that comes out of his mouth has me in stitches.
In another life, if I was born and raised in London and had a way with words, he’d be my spirit animal. XD
When Tom replaced the rude words with the ECML Stations I just couldn't stop laughing. A very funny way of reaeding out a passage.
DONCASTER now!
"For some people, holding a hand on a hot stove is a great way to remind themselves that they're still alive" - Tom Allen
"the sight of someone pregnant is disgusting and must be hidden" - also Tom Allen
he never elaborated further on that sentence and it will forever bother me
11:36
"How lonely?" Asks Alan Carr then hands him a cucumber. Classic
One of my absolute favourite guests. Him and Alan Carr on the same team was legendary!
Sven Gunderson Ok and thank u for the polite reply this other guy had a much worse one, I respect that
@@tobyisraw2769 Super Simp
@Eric Burkheimer you fell into the trap
what season and episode was that team up?
@Eric Burkheimer DOuble super simp
Tom's delivery on the x-boyfriend joke is just immaculate. Really good delivery has me in tatters everytime
50 Shades of Train would be a publishing phenomenon.
He has a great voice; it reminds me of narrators on older documentaries.
"You're watching Paw Patrol and getting jam on things. It's not good enough!"
When he started talking about competitive mourning, David’s face lit up. They do love to complain.
I genuinely nearly fell off my chair reading this thank you
"NOOOO DON'T PATRONIZE ME!"
The bit about Tom's tophat and tails is always hilarious. He weirded out the bullies, lol.
His timing is so good he can make anything funny.
Everytime tom says something about him being lonely or his heart being broken I just want to jump through the screen and hug him
"we are recruiting at the moment" 🤣🤣
His timing is perfect, whenever he’s on any panel show i just know it’s going to be great
She liked him, but enough to hold down the shift key 😂😂😂😂
The audience doesn't laugh nearly enough at Tom. So funny!
My respect for Tom has become immeasurable, simply due to the fact that he still calls emojis "emoticons".
:) is an emoticon, an emoji is the image like this 🙂. If it's typed out it's an emoticon, js
This collection made me Darlington again and again.
The UK has so many smart, hilarious comics, and they get so much more airtime than in America. Thanks for posting great clips here on RUclips like these of the amazing Mr. Allen.
you have funny ones on that friends show. maybe?
We take comedy seriously here 😉 sarcasm and intelligently crafted gags, deadpan delivery and dark humour makes British comedy special.
I really like Tom - wish he could do more (especially stand up). His Radio 4 show a couple of years ago was excellent.
19:58 "it's the spring."
GENIUS!
Still watching this guy now man absolutely hilarious timing is on pointt
4:53 oh god... that silence after that guy in the back did a flirty gesture
Criinnggeee
Honestly an absolute legend!
Gotta love the way he takes the piss out of gay stereotypes just cuz he knows he can get away with it🤣🤣
As a gay man who has a few basic and cookie cutter gay friends who are in relationships. I can 100% confirm how accurate those arguments were!
Cookie cutter are you a misfit.
Lord, I don't know why but he cracks me up.
He cracks me up and all. It's probably all the funny things he says and the funny way he says them
“Like so many people here, I love it in the arts.”
Tom Allen 2k16
Expert delivery , so refreshing ❤️ love how he’s so observational but his cadence makes it like a series of one liners!
There's gay comedians who just go talk about their genitals, but Tom Allen and Alan Carr are the best comedians when it comes to making fun of their own sexuality.
Allen's like a gay version of Sean Locke.
Tom Allen is way better, he's fantastic
HerrBratwurst both legends😉😘
Suzi though, she’s gorgeous 🙈🥵
I doubt Sean would like you saying that. He has a distinctly unimpressed impatient face on whenever Tom opens his mouth.
purplerains, while I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you either, Susan Calman, Sandi Toksvig (although both of them typically only mention genitals either when talking about feminism or when relating anecdotes), sue Perkins, Matt Lucas, Joe Lycett, Graham Norton, Zoe Lyons and Gina Yashere among other LGBTQ comedians frequently refer to their genitals, or genitalia in general in their material
6:56 Anyone else seeing Suzie Dent silently dying from that interesting interpretation of grammar? 😂
It's been a while since I have cried laughing. I saw Tom Allen at the Edinburgh Fringe some years ago. That was a witty, constructed stand-up set. But trust me, he is funnier now. Oh me, if I had the money, I'd buy him that rugby team.
His material isn’t the best but its the way he presents it that makes it hilarious 😆
His presentation is better in this sort of studio setting than the manic and loud style of his stage performances.
The fifty shades gag is a belter
I Thought it was pretty tame tbf.
Tom Allen is absolutely hilarious 😂 "what an opening"😂
Has he done audio books before? His voice is brilliant
His dress shirt matches the circus tent lol
Surprised nobody on the panel picked up on it.
If you get the chance to see Tom Allen live, do it. Over 2 hours, no support act and full energy all the way through. And of course hilarious.
I need Tom Allen on taskmaster
He is hilarious and I adore him.
I thought the 50 shades of grey bit was hilarious, didnt think he got the response he deserved
8:50 I love it in the arts too, Tom! ❤❤
I’ve never really seen Tom before but watching this had me laughing out loud fair play he’s funny as fuck !!! 👍🏻
They should hire him to do the announcements on the East Coast Mainline for real.
When this is all over we need a show featuring Linda and a sister who's always been green with Envy and the rest of the family make sure they don't string you along 😉I can't believe I'm actually making comments about a bloody balloon 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you've made my week again also on a personal level I love your suits 😍😁
I did a double take when I heard stevenage. Not too often my hometown gets mentioned :^)
Lol same!
I love Tom so much. I hate that he doesn't have any DVDs out. This needs rectifying. Even if they do one of all his best bits for now and then he does some stand up! I'd love to see him live just him xxxxx
Tom is just so adorable
He is so adorable I love him so much
i dont often laugh when people use tokenisms to create humour but Tom is so naturally funny he pulls it off eloquently
Love, love, love his voice. His over the top gay stereotypes are delightful too.
As someone who is from Doncaster I can with absolute certainty say no one wants that 😂
An unusually well formulated sentence for someone from Doncaster... I suppose that’s the great thing about being inbred you never know what you’ll get from the mutations!
Says the person who types their username like a five year old. Back under your bridge.
rob and tom are my favourite unlikely duo
Suddenly want to marry this guy. 💞
This guy is hilarious. Never heard of him before
Tom Allen A LOVEABLE LEGEND
Tom is hilarious lol love him 😂😂😂
He pauses to give people a chance to catch up. Hilarious.
The circus tent costume could help with social distancing if people don't avoid you already, they can't get close enough anyway
Think that’s the only time anyone in history will ever exclaim “Doncaster now!”
I wish they still did original 8 out of 10 cats
They do, its on E4 now... you've got about 3 seasons to catch up on
@@emmasmith291 except it's shit now
“HE LOOKED LIKE A GHOST” kills me
I love tom he's bloody hilarious 😂😂
Tom Allen is just the best.
The other thing with tomcis he's only a couple of years older than me so a lot of his stories and observations from when he was a kid remind me of my childhood too xxxxx
Love this Man 😂
It's a simple thing; I see Tom Allen and I click.
Why, are you on grindr?
Tom really hides nothing for the sake of comedy i love it
Somebody tell Tom Allen I love him!
Adore Tom allen
Love Tom Allen.
I wondered about the curtain tiebacks but resolved the issue with the addition of blinds.
@18:33... Goes well with Lock's insightful critique of that terrible primary school drama club on Big Fat Quiz!
At 2:45, I couldn't make out where Jimmy's vegetables came from when he answered Tom's question about where he got his vegetables from. So I thought I'd re-run that bit with the captions on. It said he got his vegetables from a bear in the kitchen. I don't think you're spending enough time on writing the captions, Channel 4.
Anthony Griffin the captions are generated automatically by youtube
/whoosh
He said they just appear in the kitchen, meaning that he's so rich, someone keeps his kitchen stocked for him.
Seeing a Jane Asher book on this show seems like some weird cross over event with my interests
I love Tom Allen!
English Graham Norton, I absolutely love Tom
Anyone else just really want to see the pictures of Rachel in those costumes lol
I feel he is so underappreciated.
Shout out to Rachel's mum and her Jane Asher book!
Darlington shout out at the end of his Train stations bit