I grew up watching his show "Dave Allen At Large". He was my absolute favorite, and I still remember some of his jokes that I haven't seen or found online. I believe he drank scotch. He smoked a cigar also. His show was a staple in our household. RIP to a great comedian/storyteller. 😊❤
@FreethoughtsOnline right! That one was good! My favorite is the one where they are peeking in on wakes for a catholic, atheist, and agnostic. Freaking hilarious!
He was a favorite of mine as well. As I recall he smoked cigarettes back then rather than cigars. He drank whiskey, but since he was Irish it may not have been scotch.
@@anthonystreeter7808 I remember both cigarettes and cigars. That's how I noticed he was missing part of a finger. Totally caught me off guard. As far as his drink... we'll probably never really know. For years I thought Dean Martin drank on stage... turned out to be apple juice most of the time.
Astronomers had blind-faith that black holes exist based solely on their effect on space around them. Black holes can not be seen. Faith in God is similar.
Having grown up in an Irish/ catholic family in Australia were brought up on a steady diet of Dave Allen. He was a master raconteur. He used to travel the world with a notebook and observe people's conversations and mannerisms. He would turn these plus his own upbringings into what you see and hear. Rare genius at work here. Hoping you do more of him. Be well Britt ❤
My dad was an Irish cradle Catholic and loved Dave Allen as did we as kids. I think I his humour derived from the unquestionable hold that the Church had on Irish life. His humour wasn’t aimed so much at people with beliefs but more at the religious institutions that held so much undeserved power and influence. He was such a funny and witty man, much missed.
loved Dave Allen may he rest in peace.. he was brought up Catholic, my niece back in 70's misheard 'perpetual light' in a prayer as your petrol light it was adorable to here her say that, I'm 73 Irish Catholic, Dave's jokes are remembered longer than the passages of the Bible the Priest reads out, thanks for reacting to this,
Great reaction, Britt. There are two other British comedy duo’s I think you should look out for. The first is The Two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett) who are masters of the comedy sketch and word play. Ronnie Barker himself wrote many of the sketches but all of them are so, so, funny. The best sketches are “Four Candles,” “Crossword on the train,” “Racing Duck,” “Crossed Lines,” “Mispronunciation,” “Cockney Rhyming Slang,” “Wedding speech,” the list though is endless. The boys would also do a big singing sketch at the end of each show (usually with them dressed up as women) which are also very funny. The other duo is “Morecambe & Wise,” (Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise) who were slightly similar to “The Two Ronnies,” (both were from the BBC) in that they would do comedy sketches but they would also have the big stars of the day (this is back in the 1970s/1980s) that would come on and act in Ernie’s terrible plays (wot I wrote) and basically would send themselves up to be ridiculed because they wanted to work with M&W. So many sketches to see, but my all time favourite (and many’s favourite) is the piano sketch they did with noted orchestra conductor and scorer of film music, Andre Previn. It’s a very long sketch but it is so, so, funny. I think you’d enjoy seeing both these duo’s. Please check them out. Much love from the UK. 🇬🇧
Didn't know Dave Allen was British. I'm pretty sure he would be surprised too. I know some of his family in Dublin. I'm pretty sure they aren't British either.
Dave Always took the point you can belive in a god but Religion was BS. Goodnight and may your god go with you.😉.... But for christs sake dont leave it here.... we've got enough.
He had a sign off similar to your " Go have the day you deserve" In that it covers everbody End if every show "Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you."
I grew up watching Dave Allen. He was a superb storyteller. Back in those days you had a wealth of great comedians on the radio and television. Some of the stuff that they got away with back then you would not be able to hear or see now!
I love his analogy of a blindfolded man in a darkened room looking for a black cat that isn't there (the blindfolded man looking for a god.. and finding it 🤪)
I am an atheist and my knowledge of the bible comes from Sunday school for 10 years and going to church. As I got older I asked more questions which were always brushed away by the the pastor and the youth workers, so I read more of the bible, not just the fairy stories they spoon fed us, like Adam and Eve, Noah, the ten commandments etc. If you read all of the bible you know deep down that it was written by men with the limited knowledge of science, and not dictated to them by an all-knowing deity. Also the morals in the bible are based on the morals of the time, where women were classed as possessions, slavery was approved of (it even gives instruction of how to be a good slave for your master, and how slave owners should treat their slaves and when it was OK to take sex slaves). Sacrifices, and stoning to death of homosexuals, women who have been with another man, etc.. Man's morals have clearly outstripped the morals written in the bible, therefore they couldn't have been written by a god who has been around for eternity, because the morals would be absolute, not evolving with time.
@timcarr6401 You do realise that most scholars now believe that all the Matthew scriptures were not written by him but by an unknown author 60 years after Jesus's alleged death by somone who had never met or seen him.. I'm now 62 years old, I've not bothered reading the bible for over 42 years... I have read it all previously. The Sermon on the Mount was supposed to have been a massive historical event at the time. Similarly, Palm sunday, however, no mention at all of either event in any Roman records (of which there are many from around that time), odd that isn't it, it's almost like it never happened.
@@chrisparti "Matthew's occupation as a tax collector qualified him to be the official recorder of the words and works of Jesus. There is a good historical tradition that Matthew actually wrote Gospel material. This comes from Papias of Hierapolis as quoted by the church historian Eusebius. We do not know precisely when Matthew was written. It's dependence on Mark and its failure to mention the destruction of Jerusalem (especially in connection with Jesus' prediction of that event in chapter 24) suggest a date shortly before A.D. 70. Antioch is the most likely place of origin. Early in the second century Ignatius of that city refers to Matthew as "the Gospel." Also, the Gentile-Jewish character of the Antioch church accords well with the contents of the book." ( p.370 of "NIV Compact Dictionary Of The Bible -- by J.D. Douglas & Merrill C. Tenney).
@@timcarr6401 From Bart Ehrman, New Testament scholar: I don’t think Jesus ever gave the Sermon on the Mount. That’s not just a crazy idea I came up with one day. It’s a widespread view among historical scholars, for reasons that would not be hard to figure out. Just think about the logistics of the issue for a second. The Sermon goes on for three entire chapters. These are not concise chapters; in our Bibles today, they are 111 verses in total (48 + 34 + 29) - saying after saying after saying, one after the other, some one-liners, some extended instructions, some parabolic-like illustrations. It is an amazing collection of Jesus’ teachings, by far his most famous set of teachings in the Bible, probably the most famous set of teachings to come down to us from all of antiquity. I am not at all interested in detracting from its beauty and importance. According to Matthew, this is Jesus’ first public address. It happened at the very beginning of his ministry. By standard calculations, that would be about 27 CE or so. The sermon is found nowhere before Matthew - it’s not in Mark or, obviously, the writings of Paul - or, for that matter, anywhere else in all of ancient writing. It is just in Matthew. Let’s think about that. Historical scholars almost universally think Matthew was written after Mark, probably in the mid-80s or so (for reasons I won’t go into here: but I’ve discussed it on the blog before and in my books and online courses). That means that the first instance we have of the sermon is 55-60 years after it was delivered. Matthew was not from Israel, he did not know Jesus, he is writing in a different language from Jesus, basing his account on what he has heard and read from others. And so my question is: how could Matthew possibly know what was in the lengthy sermon that Jesus gave 55-60 years earlier in a different part of the world speaking a different language? There was no audio recording, and there were no stenographers. Those who would have been listening to it (if he gave it) would not have thought that this is a sermon that would be around for 2000 years. They were just listening for the first time to a teacher whom they had just heard about, as he was giving a talk. Even if Matthew HAD been there (how could he have been? Think about life expectancy in antiquity), how would he remember exactly what Jesus said? Not just in *general* but in *specifics* - saying by saying by saying, word for word? If you believe that Matthew was divinely inspired to record what Jesus actually said, fair enough. That’s a conversation stopper. But if you like to think in historical terms, well, it just ain’t credible. My 19-20 year old students sometimes have difficult accepting that. Hey, why couldn’t he just remember it all? Why not??? So I say to them, OK, did you hear Joseph Biden’s inaugural address a couple of years ago? Great. Write it down. And that was two years ago. So let’s make it more applicable to the situation of the Sermon on the Mount. In 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the first State of the Union address to be televised. Millions of us were alive then. Many millions of people heard it. We have records of it, reports of it, and, of course, recordings of it. Some of you heard it at the time. Please write it down for me. Havin’ a problem with that? Exactly. So, did Jesus deliver the Sermon on the Mount? Well, he certainly may have given some sermons on tops of hills at times. I rather doubht there would have been multitudes and multitudes of people there for any of them (as indicated by Matthew) or, if there were, that very many of them could have heard him very well without a sound system. (If you haven’t seen the opening scenes of the Life of Brian, you really *have* to. This is not just a funny movie, it is *brilliant* in its depth of understanding of the historical situation of first-century Israel - and the Sermon on the Mount is just the start of it. For what it’s worth, the Sermon is the only scene in which Jesus himself appears in the movie. And the listeners can’m make our what he’s saying: Blessed are the Cheesemakers! And Blessed are the Greeks!) It is obviously quite possible (probable, I’d say) that Jesus may well have spoken at times to groups. And he certainly may have delivered many of the sayings we find in the Sermon on the Mount today, probably onnumerous occasions. But the collection of the sayings into a single Sermon is almost certainly Matthew’s own construction.
Dave Allen is awesome. They used to broadcast his show on PBS every Sunday night, along with other BBC and Thames comedies. But Dave Allen was one of my absolute favorites!
I think one ofthe great thinings about Dave Allen is that a the end of his show's he always finished by saying "good night and may your god go with you!" with that line he covers all religions!
Oh my God I love this guy His story about Eve and the snake and a talking one at that and if it talked to me I crapped myself This guy is awesome I love'em ... Too funny!!
I'm a working class lad from northern Britain, I grew up with DA and have many many fond memories. Having had church schools inflicted on me, he helped me rebel and say, "Sorry this is tosh". I got an "F" from my teacher on the subject as I said so, but thanks to Dave, I no longer cared...
Dave Allen's religious humour was pretty gentle on the whole, and all the better for it. I'm never sure if he was an atheist - maybe more an agnostic. He described himself more as a religious sceptic. He did say he was "what you might call a practising atheist" and often joked, "I'm an atheist, thank God." I think he was quite respectful to those with religious beliefs and whilst the Irish tv channels would not broadcast his shows, presumably because of pressure by the Catholic church in Ireland, the BBC was widely available in Ireland from UK transmitters in Wales and Northern Ireland and he was apparently very popular in his own country. He used to finish his shows with the delightful line "Goodnight, and may your God go with you!"🙂
Ricky Gervais was talking to a religious guy, I think a Christian and said words to the effect of " there are about 200 religions in the world with their own gods, I believe in 1 less god than you"!
He was on afternoons on one of the Boston channels after school in late 70s/early 80s. Loved watching. Just a guy sitting in a chair with a cocktail being funny as hell.
This "atheist man" was born catholic, went to a Catholic school taught my nuns. So it's not so simple to just label and dismiss him, he knows what he's talking about, he lived the life. In Ireland the church has power and influence.
Dave Allen was the kindest nicest man you could meet. He enjoyed meeting characters & eccentrics and all the foibles of human nature. Even at the end of each show he would say 'May your God go with you'. But he loved to show up so called religious people. His father was a first class journalist & newspaper editor & I expect Dave picked up his love of language from him. His ghost stories are superb. A master raconteur.
Nice. Dave Allen was unique - a brilliant storyteller and a very funny man. Have you watched him talking about his fear of aeroplanes yet? Or teaching a child to use a watch? I'm impressed, BTW - too many "Christians" get offended too easily and would get angry at things like this. You're definitely one of the good ones :)
I grew up watching Dave Allen. I still remember his skits. my fav was when he was walking down a lane and a werewolf came after him. he threw his cane at the beast....and they ended up playing fetch.
Dave Allen is an often-played show in my Catholic house. It is played even more when my Jewish brother-in-law visits as he also is a huge fan and we have been watching since the shows time on the air. Yes. we are old. I am glad you did this. Dave is highly under rated and more should be exposed to his style of storytelling. Thank you. A suggestion you might like to check out is Paul Harvey and his "Letter from God".
The funeral procession race is simply hilarious. Split your seams funny. The Pope accent that he used is partly based off the Italian accent. Up until John-Paul 2, virtually every Pope had been Italian. One of my favorite routines from him was a “letter he received” (so the joke goes). In it the writer was expressing how much he liked the joke about popes, vicars, priests, and nuns. And it was signed by a Rabbi.
To answer the question you asked about whether people can judge something they haven't experienced, I think the answer is really nuanced. If someone's gathered enough life experience (not years, but experience itself) to have an accurate perception of what they're judging, then yes . That said, the world is full of sheltered people who judge things based on an echo chamber, projecting insecurities or a viewpoint not their own, then no. The louded people tend to be in the second category.
My daughter and our sister discovered we were Knights In Spain in France, Germany and Italy: Teutonic, Templars and hospitals they were Warrior Monks If you watch the movie with Liam Neeson Jeremy irons in Orlando Bloom called: "KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" YOU WILL SEE THE WARRIOR MONKS IN THAT MOVIE AS WELL AS THE TEMPLAR NIGHTS Who unfortunately at one point of history became corrupted Guy de Lusingnoine a corrupt French King but the Hosplitars stay true to their Code!
I gave up being a practising atheist years ago; I'm a fully-fledged professional with no delusions. Dave da man in Britain/Ireland; George da man in the US. Both ended their lives under no religious delulu.
for those who know the full history of the Catholic order, putting mildly its pretty horrific at least 3 murderous Crusades, the now famous Speedo priests, the dark ages mass killings, the keeping of slaves, the brutal convent Gulags, the mass killings of Natives all around the world, not the stuff I'd call Christian in any tones.
"You cannot judge what you don't know" is my life motto, basically. But that includes "knowing by research", so without trying yourself. Like, you cannot know if you like opera without having seen an opera, but also, you should know drugs are bad, without trying it, as there's enough proof of the statement. The opera example is a matter of taste, the drugs example a matter of facts. Both are valid. But in both cases, you need the knowledge, either gathered from personal experience or from research/education.
You can come to conclusion from data and evidence. Personal experience is not necessary. Listening to soldiers talk about the horrors of war is evidence enough that war is terrible.
im 58, i remember watching this at my birth dads place, heaps, but too young to underdstand it, after this im gonna check it out, ..funny analysis of different religions without being dismissive or offensive......
Fascinating how some people need to worship fictional things to lead a meaningful and worthwhile life. Very odd mindset but then again they are American so enough said. .
In the Pope's analogy, the black cat is proof of the non-existence of God. He's telling the atheist he's blindly searching for something that isn't there to be found. But in the atheist's reply the black cat is God himself. He's telling the Pope that God isn't there to be found but apparently you've found him anyway.
My dads favourite comedian, took me way back. I'd be about 10 come and listen to this i didn't understand much my mum didn't like it my dad was a tough bloke he has his own way of making me grow up. Great bloke really, 70 still as strong as a ox . We get on today it's great. Tough father it was a different time for sure.
We atheists do not dismiss faith out of hand. Most of us have had it hammered into us from an early age but we reach a point where things no longer add up. We look into it and draw conclusions, conclusions that do not fare well for churches.
i once tripped up a preacher when he stood up in front of the congregation and said no man has seen God . I pointed out the verse that said Moses looked upon the face of God and was sore afraid . He was pissed ? N ever ever trust a preachrer they are in it for the free lunch ?
I never thought of Dave Allen as an atheist before,he was a catholic,and skewered that religion as it deserves,he I think considered himself a lapsed catholic. But all religions are bollocks so he may be atheist 😂😂
4:46 The black cat is a metaphor for God's existence. Pope says the Atheist is too blind to find the black cat. The Atheist argues there is no black cat to be found.
I went through the Catholic school system in the 70's and it's the quickest way to know it's all lies,nonsense and hypocrisy, watched Dave Allen every week back then.
I'm an atheist partly because I've TRIED to make it through the bible. I can never finish it. I wish I could enjoy it like any other mythological story such as The Aeneid or Iliad or the like, but every time I get to some morally repugnant section like the ones setting out guidelines on how to treat your slaves or what minor infractions are capital offences, I recall that millions upon millions of people take this monstrous nonsense literally and it is still guiding lawmakers to this day and I simultaneously want to laugh, cry and vomit.
@@dupersuper1938 Actually, I'm the same, I've never been able to make it all the way through. At some point I just get so disgusted that I throw in the towel.
Similarly here. I'm an atheist because no one has ever presented any evidence for anything else. Reading the Bible just cemented an aversion to that particular faith.
Enjoyed your reaction. Dave Allen was brilliant and, like any good comedian, he would always leave you with things to think about. Yes, he was Irish and was raised Catholic, although (as I understand it) he went on to be excommunicated twice. In answer to your question - reaching conclusions about something you've never tried is kind of a slippery slope, I feel. For example, I've never used hard drugs, but I don't have to, to know NOT to do so and will discourage others from doing so. OTOH, I also strongly believe in the individual's right to make their own choices, pursue their own faith, express themselves as they see fit, and so on - as long as they do not harm others in doing so, so there is that. Not a simple answer. As someone with agnostic leanings, I choose to believe that God (or the Universe, or whomever) does indeed have a sense of humor. Based on simple observation, it's just not necessarily a NICE sense of humor. :) One aspect of Dave Allen (imo) was how he would always finish up his shows - "Good night, God bless you, and may your God go with you."
Lee Stroebel: To continue in atheism, l'd need to believe nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I just didn't have that much faith.
During summer vacation from school as a young boy, my brother and I would stay up until Dave Allen at large came on. Usually around midnight, it was our favorite. As an adult Christian man, Dave Allen is still my favorite comedian.
1 of the greatest of a lot of very funny Irish comedians, i dont think he gets the recognition he deserves, sadly died in 2005 dnd took s lot of fun and laughter out of this world we live in.
He was a funny guy with the intelligence to see what a load of bollocks Xianity was and the nerve to say it. Was he an atheist? If you don`t believe in something that is not there, it needs no further label.
The "black cat" joke probably would have landed better if he said "you think you have found it." In other words, there is no black cat, but you mistakenly think there is.
Am an Atheist and would always joke and say stuff with my mum who was a Christian but didn't really read the bible or go to church, and the my mum got ill having battled breast cancer and getting the all clear a year later got a brain tumour and they couldn't do any thing, even though I don't believe In religion I just went along with it because my mum found peace with knowing she is going to die and reading the bible even tho before when she was well I always was like contradicting the bible n stuff before she got ill it helped her coming to terms with her illness that would lead to premature death
Oh my God if Eve became ashamed of her nose women would all be wearing knickers on their nose and then at a funeral the priest says the Father Son and Holy Ghost and every time he prays he would say of the Father and of the Son and in the whole he goes oh my God this guy's brilliant ... I love'em❤!
That little spiel about creation and Adam and where he came from he being God that was cute Yes it was funny The guy's got charisma and character I like him!
I've never tried skydiving. From what I understand, it involved falling from several hundred feet above the ground at terminal velocity with a big piece of cloth to slow you down. . . . no thanks. I have made my judgment call without experiencing it for myself, and I feel just fine about it.
@@TerenceShortman One thing that you failed to mention is that it's not the fall that kills you but it is the fall that makes you scream in abject terror, involuntarily empty your bladder, and brings on another chorus of "Mommy! No splat-splat!"
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH funny ... I love Dave Allen..... Thank you Britt for sharing, you are a Beautiful Soul
SOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY! Thank you for watching 🥰
Grew up watching him every week here in Australia!
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I grew up watching his show "Dave Allen At Large". He was my absolute favorite, and I still remember some of his jokes that I haven't seen or found online. I believe he drank scotch. He smoked a cigar also. His show was a staple in our household. RIP to a great comedian/storyteller. 😊❤
There's one he told about Ties - the ones that goes on shirts. I'll always remember that one, never seen it shown on YT yet.
@FreethoughtsOnline right! That one was good! My favorite is the one where they are peeking in on wakes for a catholic, atheist, and agnostic. Freaking hilarious!
He was a favorite of mine as well. As I recall he smoked cigarettes back then rather than cigars. He drank whiskey, but since he was Irish it may not have been scotch.
@@anthonystreeter7808
I remember both cigarettes and cigars. That's how I noticed he was missing part of a finger. Totally caught me off guard. As far as his drink... we'll probably never really know. For years I thought Dean Martin drank on stage... turned out to be apple juice most of the time.
@@denisealexander5441 I only remember cigarettes.
The black cat joke is one of my favourites. It's such a pointed, and certainly funny, way of showing up faith. Gets a laugh every time.
Astronomers had blind-faith that black holes exist based solely on their effect on space around them. Black holes can not be seen. Faith in God is similar.
Yet it appeared to go over her head.
The black cat is God and has always been his allegory to God
@@marcusfridh8489 Yes, the black cat that isn't there.
Agreed.
Having grown up in an Irish/ catholic family in Australia were brought up on a steady diet of Dave Allen. He was a master raconteur. He used to travel the world with a notebook and observe people's conversations and mannerisms. He would turn these plus his own upbringings into what you see and hear. Rare genius at work here. Hoping you do more of him. Be well Britt ❤
My dad was an Irish cradle Catholic and loved Dave Allen as did we as kids. I think I his humour derived from the unquestionable hold that the Church had on Irish life. His humour wasn’t aimed so much at people with beliefs but more at the religious institutions that held so much undeserved power and influence. He was such a funny and witty man, much missed.
Dave Allen , one of the funniest comedians ever
loved Dave Allen may he rest in peace.. he was brought up Catholic, my niece back in 70's misheard 'perpetual light' in a prayer as your petrol light it was adorable to here her say that, I'm 73 Irish Catholic, Dave's jokes are remembered longer than the passages of the Bible the Priest reads out, thanks for reacting to this,
Since he was a self-proclaimed atheist, I assure you he is not resting in peace.
@@timcarr6401How do you know?
I believe that Dave is the reason that the world is in so much turmoil today... God is preoccupied laughing at him.💛✌
Dave Allen "Teaching Your Kids Time"
One of my favourites.
THIS. One of my all time favorites!
A definite must watch.
My wife and I were privileged to see him live in London. The most memorable part was his skit about stopping smoking.
I'm jealous!
I m going to quit smoking about 15 seconds after I die.
Britt. As an atheist, I think you have exactly the kind of attitude towards atheists us that fosters a good relationship.
ye, i have the same feeling.
I sense that she's not too far off becoming an atheist herself ☺️
@@saytamaner so going from one party that claims to know the truth to the opposite one, while both have no clue....
That brought back a lot of memories. Dave Allen was a born story teller. I think you'll enjoy watching episodes of his show.
Great reaction, Britt. There are two other British comedy duo’s I think you should look out for. The first is The Two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett) who are masters of the comedy sketch and word play. Ronnie Barker himself wrote many of the sketches but all of them are so, so, funny. The best sketches are “Four Candles,” “Crossword on the train,” “Racing Duck,” “Crossed Lines,” “Mispronunciation,” “Cockney Rhyming Slang,” “Wedding speech,” the list though is endless. The boys would also do a big singing sketch at the end of each show (usually with them dressed up as women) which are also very funny.
The other duo is “Morecambe & Wise,” (Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise) who were slightly similar to “The Two Ronnies,” (both were from the BBC) in that they would do comedy sketches but they would also have the big stars of the day (this is back in the 1970s/1980s) that would come on and act in Ernie’s terrible plays (wot I wrote) and basically would send themselves up to be ridiculed because they wanted to work with M&W. So many sketches to see, but my all time favourite (and many’s favourite) is the piano sketch they did with noted orchestra conductor and scorer of film music, Andre Previn. It’s a very long sketch but it is so, so, funny. I think you’d enjoy seeing both these duo’s. Please check them out.
Much love from the UK. 🇬🇧
Didn't know Dave Allen was British. I'm pretty sure he would be surprised too. I know some of his family in Dublin. I'm pretty sure they aren't British either.
Hi, Dave Allen was brought up Catholic, in a very Catholic country.
I was going to say the same thing, he respected religion as can be heard with his final words on all his shows.
Dave Always took the point you can belive in a god but Religion was BS.
Goodnight and may your god go with you.😉....
But for christs sake dont leave it here.... we've got enough.
Yeh. When I lived in Eire in 86 it was 95 % catholic
He had a sign off similar to your " Go have the day you deserve"
In that it covers everbody
End if every show
"Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you."
Great to reaction, dave allen was a brilliant comedian, his sketches are great . Love your channel.
I grew up watching Dave Allen. Brilliantly clever comedian. This year sadly marks the 20th anniversary of his passing. (10th March 2005 RIP)
I grew up watching Dave Allen. He was a superb storyteller. Back in those days you had a wealth of great comedians on the radio and television. Some of the stuff that they got away with back then you would not be able to hear or see now!
I love his analogy of a blindfolded man in a darkened room looking for a black cat that isn't there (the blindfolded man looking for a god.. and finding it 🤪)
I'm Irish, I love Dave Allen, and I love you. Your Elvis reactions are lovely. Happy 2025.
I am an atheist and my knowledge of the bible comes from Sunday school for 10 years and going to church. As I got older I asked more questions which were always brushed away by the the pastor and the youth workers, so I read more of the bible, not just the fairy stories they spoon fed us, like Adam and Eve, Noah, the ten commandments etc. If you read all of the bible you know deep down that it was written by men with the limited knowledge of science, and not dictated to them by an all-knowing deity. Also the morals in the bible are based on the morals of the time, where women were classed as possessions, slavery was approved of (it even gives instruction of how to be a good slave for your master, and how slave owners should treat their slaves and when it was OK to take sex slaves). Sacrifices, and stoning to death of homosexuals, women who have been with another man, etc.. Man's morals have clearly outstripped the morals written in the bible, therefore they couldn't have been written by a god who has been around for eternity, because the morals would be absolute, not evolving with time.
It's clear (among many other things) that you have never read the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-48).
@timcarr6401 You do realise that most scholars now believe that all the Matthew scriptures were not written by him but by an unknown author 60 years after Jesus's alleged death by somone who had never met or seen him.. I'm now 62 years old, I've not bothered reading the bible for over 42 years... I have read it all previously. The Sermon on the Mount was supposed to have been a massive historical event at the time. Similarly, Palm sunday, however, no mention at all of either event in any Roman records (of which there are many from around that time), odd that isn't it, it's almost like it never happened.
@@timcarr6401 'Blessed are the cheesemakers'. 🧀
@@chrisparti "Matthew's occupation as a tax collector qualified him to be the official recorder of the words and works of Jesus. There is a good historical tradition that Matthew actually wrote Gospel material. This comes from Papias of Hierapolis as quoted by the church historian Eusebius.
We do not know precisely when Matthew was written. It's dependence on Mark and its failure to mention the destruction of Jerusalem (especially in connection with Jesus' prediction of that event in chapter 24) suggest a date
shortly before A.D. 70. Antioch is the most likely place of origin. Early in the second century Ignatius of that city refers to Matthew as "the Gospel." Also, the Gentile-Jewish character of the Antioch church accords well with the contents of the book." ( p.370 of "NIV Compact Dictionary Of The Bible -- by J.D. Douglas & Merrill C. Tenney).
@@timcarr6401 From Bart Ehrman, New Testament scholar:
I don’t think Jesus ever gave the Sermon on the Mount.
That’s not just a crazy idea I came up with one day. It’s a widespread view among historical scholars, for reasons that would not be hard to figure out. Just think about the logistics of the issue for a second. The Sermon goes on for three entire chapters. These are not concise chapters; in our Bibles today, they are 111 verses in total (48 + 34 + 29) - saying after saying after saying, one after the other, some one-liners, some extended instructions, some parabolic-like illustrations.
It is an amazing collection of Jesus’ teachings, by far his most famous set of teachings in the Bible, probably the most famous set of teachings to come down to us from all of antiquity. I am not at all interested in detracting from its beauty and importance.
According to Matthew, this is Jesus’ first public address. It happened at the very beginning of his ministry. By standard calculations, that would be about 27 CE or so. The sermon is found nowhere before Matthew - it’s not in Mark or, obviously, the writings of Paul - or, for that matter, anywhere else in all of ancient writing. It is just in Matthew.
Let’s think about that. Historical scholars almost universally think Matthew was written after Mark, probably in the mid-80s or so (for reasons I won’t go into here: but I’ve discussed it on the blog before and in my books and online courses). That means that the first instance we have of the sermon is 55-60 years after it was delivered.
Matthew was not from Israel, he did not know Jesus, he is writing in a different language from Jesus, basing his account on what he has heard and read from others. And so my question is: how could Matthew possibly know what was in the lengthy sermon that Jesus gave 55-60 years earlier in a different part of the world speaking a different language? There was no audio recording, and there were no stenographers. Those who would have been listening to it (if he gave it) would not have thought that this is a sermon that would be around for 2000 years. They were just listening for the first time to a teacher whom they had just heard about, as he was giving a talk.
Even if Matthew HAD been there (how could he have been? Think about life expectancy in antiquity), how would he remember exactly what Jesus said? Not just in *general* but in *specifics* - saying by saying by saying, word for word? If you believe that Matthew was divinely inspired to record what Jesus actually said, fair enough. That’s a conversation stopper. But if you like to think in historical terms, well, it just ain’t credible.
My 19-20 year old students sometimes have difficult accepting that. Hey, why couldn’t he just remember it all? Why not??? So I say to them, OK, did you hear Joseph Biden’s inaugural address a couple of years ago? Great. Write it down.
And that was two years ago. So let’s make it more applicable to the situation of the Sermon on the Mount. In 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the first State of the Union address to be televised. Millions of us were alive then. Many millions of people heard it. We have records of it, reports of it, and, of course, recordings of it. Some of you heard it at the time. Please write it down for me.
Havin’ a problem with that? Exactly.
So, did Jesus deliver the Sermon on the Mount? Well, he certainly may have given some sermons on tops of hills at times. I rather doubht there would have been multitudes and multitudes of people there for any of them (as indicated by Matthew) or, if there were, that very many of them could have heard him very well without a sound system. (If you haven’t seen the opening scenes of the Life of Brian, you really *have* to. This is not just a funny movie, it is *brilliant* in its depth of understanding of the historical situation of first-century Israel - and the Sermon on the Mount is just the start of it. For what it’s worth, the Sermon is the only scene in which Jesus himself appears in the movie. And the listeners can’m make our what he’s saying: Blessed are the Cheesemakers! And Blessed are the Greeks!)
It is obviously quite possible (probable, I’d say) that Jesus may well have spoken at times to groups. And he certainly may have delivered many of the sayings we find in the Sermon on the Mount today, probably onnumerous occasions. But the collection of the sayings into a single Sermon is almost certainly Matthew’s own construction.
One off the greatest Dave Allen , brilliant
Dave Allen is awesome. They used to broadcast his show on PBS every Sunday night, along with other BBC and Thames comedies. But Dave Allen was one of my absolute favorites!
I think one ofthe great thinings about Dave Allen is that a the end of his show's he always finished by saying "good night and may your god go with you!" with that line he covers all religions!
This was hilarious!! Thank you Britt for the great laughs this morning!! 😂😂
Oh my God I love this guy His story about Eve and the snake and a talking one at that and if it talked to me I crapped myself This guy is awesome I love'em ... Too funny!!
God is equated to the black cat that isn't there but has been found.
I'm a working class lad from northern Britain, I grew up with DA and have many many fond memories. Having had church schools inflicted on me, he helped me rebel and say, "Sorry this is tosh". I got an "F" from my teacher on the subject as I said so, but thanks to Dave, I no longer cared...
Dave Allen's religious humour was pretty gentle on the whole, and all the better for it. I'm never sure if he was an atheist - maybe more an agnostic. He described himself more as a religious sceptic. He did say he was "what you might call a practising atheist" and often joked, "I'm an atheist, thank God."
I think he was quite respectful to those with religious beliefs and whilst the Irish tv channels would not broadcast his shows, presumably because of pressure by the Catholic church in Ireland, the BBC was widely available in Ireland from UK transmitters in Wales and Northern Ireland and he was apparently very popular in his own country. He used to finish his shows with the delightful line "Goodnight, and may your God go with you!"🙂
I'm glad you're discovering Dave Allen used to watch it with my mother.
This was tooooo funny. Thx Britt!
Ricky Gervais was talking to a religious guy, I think a Christian and said words to the effect of " there are about 200 religions in the world with their own gods, I believe in 1 less god than you"!
Dave was a comical genius and one of the reasons i became atheist in the 70's. The other reason was i read the bible 😂
He was on afternoons on one of the Boston channels after school in late 70s/early 80s. Loved watching. Just a guy sitting in a chair with a cocktail being funny as hell.
I love this format, it is #GOALS!
At the end of every Dave Allen show, he said,'May your God go with you.
This "atheist man" was born catholic, went to a Catholic school taught my nuns.
So it's not so simple to just label and dismiss him, he knows what he's talking about, he lived the life. In Ireland the church has power and influence.
Yeah, I'm the same as Dave Allen, schooled in Catholicism until I could think for myself.
He was a genius. He pushed boundaries that went away, but have now returned. He should be lauded, and those boundaries should be ridiculed.
A wife a mother a business owner wearing all this hats I only got one thing to say to you Britt 1. GOD BLESS YOU FOR ALL YOUR HEART AND SOUL!
Britt is so beautiful and has great personalty! Dave Allen was brilliant
Dave Allen was the kindest nicest man you could meet. He enjoyed meeting characters & eccentrics and all the foibles of human nature. Even at the end of each show he would say 'May your God go with you'. But he loved to show up so called religious people. His father was a first class journalist & newspaper editor & I expect Dave picked up his love of language from him. His ghost stories are superb. A master raconteur.
Nice. Dave Allen was unique - a brilliant storyteller and a very funny man. Have you watched him talking about his fear of aeroplanes yet? Or teaching a child to use a watch? I'm impressed, BTW - too many "Christians" get offended too easily and would get angry at things like this. You're definitely one of the good ones :)
I grew up watching Dave Allen. I still remember his skits. my fav was when he was walking down a lane and a werewolf came after him. he threw his cane at the beast....and they ended up playing fetch.
Dave Allen is an often-played show in my Catholic house. It is played even more when my Jewish brother-in-law visits as he also is a huge fan and we have been watching since the shows time on the air. Yes. we are old. I am glad you did this. Dave is highly under rated and more should be exposed to his style of storytelling. Thank you. A suggestion you might like to check out is Paul Harvey and his "Letter from God".
Your one of the people who found the black cat in the dark room that wasn't there with a blindfold on.
Pope found the black cat, that isn't there.... perfect :)
Whew 11m mark, that beeping finally went.
Great jokes. Thoughtful.
Funnily enough at the end of every show he'd finish with these word " May your god go with you " . a many layered statement .
The funeral procession race is simply hilarious. Split your seams funny. The Pope accent that he used is partly based off the Italian accent. Up until John-Paul 2, virtually every Pope had been Italian. One of my favorite routines from him was a “letter he received” (so the joke goes). In it the writer was expressing how much he liked the joke about popes, vicars, priests, and nuns. And it was signed by a Rabbi.
To answer the question you asked about whether people can judge something they haven't experienced, I think the answer is really nuanced.
If someone's gathered enough life experience (not years, but experience itself) to have an accurate perception of what they're judging, then yes .
That said, the world is full of sheltered people who judge things based on an echo chamber, projecting insecurities or a viewpoint not their own, then no.
The louded people tend to be in the second category.
My daughter and our sister discovered we were Knights In Spain in France, Germany and Italy: Teutonic, Templars and hospitals they were Warrior Monks If you watch the movie with Liam Neeson Jeremy irons in Orlando Bloom called: "KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" YOU WILL SEE THE WARRIOR MONKS IN THAT MOVIE AS WELL AS THE TEMPLAR NIGHTS Who unfortunately at one point of history became corrupted Guy de Lusingnoine a corrupt French King but the Hosplitars stay true to their Code!
Great reaction and in super good humour
Dave Allen was incredible. Simple incredible. His delivery ... The best. As a kid I watched him religiously (joke intended).
I gave up being a practising atheist years ago; I'm a fully-fledged professional with no delusions. Dave da man in Britain/Ireland; George da man in the US. Both ended their lives under no religious delulu.
Folk can believe what religion they want. I just dont want them governing my life and interfering in politics!.
their religions require them to do that and promise eternal paradise in return. so not sure how its possible to have it both ways
for those who know the full history of the Catholic order, putting mildly its pretty horrific
at least 3 murderous Crusades, the now famous Speedo priests, the dark ages mass killings, the keeping of slaves, the brutal convent Gulags, the mass killings of Natives all around the world, not the stuff I'd call Christian in any tones.
"You cannot judge what you don't know" is my life motto, basically. But that includes "knowing by research", so without trying yourself. Like, you cannot know if you like opera without having seen an opera, but also, you should know drugs are bad, without trying it, as there's enough proof of the statement. The opera example is a matter of taste, the drugs example a matter of facts. Both are valid. But in both cases, you need the knowledge, either gathered from personal experience or from research/education.
You can come to conclusion from data and evidence. Personal experience is not necessary. Listening to soldiers talk about the horrors of war is evidence enough that war is terrible.
There are no atheists in foxholes.
Dave said he did not believe in God but if there was a God he would imagine he would have a sense of humour... he added "I am banking on it!"
I would say if there was a god she would not like all the divisive religions !
my 2nd Favorite Irish Comedian. Dave Allen and George Carlin
im 58, i remember watching this at my birth dads place, heaps, but too young to underdstand it, after this im gonna check it out, ..funny analysis of different religions without being dismissive or offensive......
Fascinating how some people need to worship fictional things to lead a meaningful and worthwhile life. Very odd mindset but then again they are American so enough said. .
In the Pope's analogy, the black cat is proof of the non-existence of God. He's telling the atheist he's blindly searching for something that isn't there to be found.
But in the atheist's reply the black cat is God himself. He's telling the Pope that God isn't there to be found but apparently you've found him anyway.
I don’t need to jump out of an airplane without a parachute to come to the conclusion it won’t end well. 😂
Dave way ahead of the curve.....solid Irish man
My dads favourite comedian, took me way back. I'd be about 10 come and listen to this i didn't understand much my mum didn't like it my dad was a tough bloke he has his own way of making me grow up. Great bloke really, 70 still as strong as a ox . We get on today it's great. Tough father it was a different time for sure.
We atheists do not dismiss faith out of hand. Most of us have had it hammered into us from an early age but we reach a point where things no longer add up. We look into it and draw conclusions, conclusions that do not fare well for churches.
i once tripped up a preacher when he stood up in front of the congregation and said no man has seen God . I pointed out the verse that said Moses looked upon the face of God and was sore afraid . He was pissed ? N ever ever trust a preachrer they are in it for the free lunch ?
Could we get a christopher hitchens reaction?
I never thought of Dave Allen as an atheist before,he was a catholic,and skewered that religion as it deserves,he I think considered himself a lapsed catholic. But all religions are bollocks so he may be atheist 😂😂
4:46 The black cat is a metaphor for God's existence.
Pope says the Atheist is too blind to find the black cat.
The Atheist argues there is no black cat to be found.
I went through the Catholic school system in the 70's and it's the quickest way to know it's all lies,nonsense and hypocrisy, watched Dave Allen every week back then.
I fondly remember him...very entertaining guy... ..
Happy 2025! DA was one of the greatest...holy ghost! :-)
... thanks for giving me the right to think for myself ... very Christian of you ...
I'm an atheist BECAUSE I read the Bible.
I'm an atheist partly because I've TRIED to make it through the bible. I can never finish it. I wish I could enjoy it like any other mythological story such as The Aeneid or Iliad or the like, but every time I get to some morally repugnant section like the ones setting out guidelines on how to treat your slaves or what minor infractions are capital offences, I recall that millions upon millions of people take this monstrous nonsense literally and it is still guiding lawmakers to this day and I simultaneously want to laugh, cry and vomit.
@@dupersuper1938 Actually, I'm the same, I've never been able to make it all the way through. At some point I just get so disgusted that I throw in the towel.
Very good
Similarly here. I'm an atheist because no one has ever presented any evidence for anything else. Reading the Bible just cemented an aversion to that particular faith.
@@t0dd000 You are spiritually blind.
Enjoyed your reaction. Dave Allen was brilliant and, like any good comedian, he would always leave you with things to think about. Yes, he was Irish and was raised Catholic, although (as I understand it) he went on to be excommunicated twice.
In answer to your question - reaching conclusions about something you've never tried is kind of a slippery slope, I feel. For example, I've never used hard drugs, but I don't have to, to know NOT to do so and will discourage others from doing so. OTOH, I also strongly believe in the individual's right to make their own choices, pursue their own faith, express themselves as they see fit, and so on - as long as they do not harm others in doing so, so there is that. Not a simple answer.
As someone with agnostic leanings, I choose to believe that God (or the Universe, or whomever) does indeed have a sense of humor. Based on simple observation, it's just not necessarily a NICE sense of humor. :)
One aspect of Dave Allen (imo) was how he would always finish up his shows - "Good night, God bless you, and may your God go with you."
One of Daves' biggest tv audiences were comprised of Catholic clergy.No offence was given or taken. Everyone just had a good laugh.
Lee Stroebel: To continue in atheism, l'd need to believe nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I just didn't have that much faith.
During summer vacation from school as a young boy, my brother and I would stay up until Dave Allen at large came on. Usually around midnight, it was our favorite. As an adult Christian man, Dave Allen is still my favorite comedian.
1 of the greatest of a lot of very funny Irish comedians, i dont think he gets the recognition he deserves, sadly died in 2005 dnd took s lot of fun and laughter out of this world we live in.
I just want you to know that I am a subscriber of you, Mr. Bloyd, and LFR.
There aren’t different types of God that Christians serve Britt just the Triune one 😊
He was a funny guy with the intelligence to see what a load of bollocks Xianity was and the nerve to say it.
Was he an atheist?
If you don`t believe in something that is not there, it needs no further label.
I asked my mother, "What's a contraceptive?" She replied, "It's something the English use on every conceivable occasion."
He has some of the best skits.
The "black cat" joke probably would have landed better if he said "you think you have found it." In other words, there is no black cat, but you mistakenly think there is.
Britt, please do some Quinn Dale. The man is the same par as Dave Chapple, just so funny!😹
Am an Atheist and would always joke and say stuff with my mum who was a Christian but didn't really read the bible or go to church, and the my mum got ill having battled breast cancer and getting the all clear a year later got a brain tumour and they couldn't do any thing, even though I don't believe In religion I just went along with it because my mum found peace with knowing she is going to die and reading the bible even tho before when she was well I always was like contradicting the bible n stuff before she got ill it helped her coming to terms with her illness that would lead to premature death
For other things from Dave Allen, I would highly recommend Airplanes, and Telling Time. ^^
David Allen was brillant.
Irish cathlics in his childhood 1940's where at a whole different level very religious.
Happy New Year Britt Beautiful Lady, if you enjoyed Dave Allan then you may like "Jasper Carrot" very similar humour.
Oh my God if Eve became ashamed of her nose women would all be wearing knickers on their nose and then at a funeral the priest says the Father Son and Holy Ghost and every time he prays he would say of the Father and of the Son and in the whole he goes oh my God this guy's brilliant ... I love'em❤!
That little spiel about creation and Adam and where he came from he being God that was cute Yes it was funny The guy's got charisma and character I like him!
2:03 Nope. You don’t need personal experience with something to have an informed opinion.
Good choice. Love Dave.
Dave Allen’s ‘£10 Note Stuck Under Car Tyre’ is a classic 👌
I've never tried skydiving. From what I understand, it involved falling from several hundred feet above the ground at terminal velocity with a big piece of cloth to slow you down. . . . no thanks. I have made my judgment call without experiencing it for myself, and I feel just fine about it.
Hahaha! SAME!
Two things about skydiving its not the fall that kills you it's the Sunden stop at the end and there is a reason they call it TERMINAL velocity
@@TerenceShortman One thing that you failed to mention is that it's not the fall that kills you but it is the fall that makes you scream in abject terror, involuntarily empty your bladder, and brings on another chorus of "Mommy! No splat-splat!"
@@brittreacts sounds like you lack faith lol.
Now the race of the two funerals to bury who first who wins the race ... Lions and tigers and bears oh s**T!
I must be old, because I remember John Paul I, the last Pope with an Italian accent.