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nice sweet little ladies—they used to knock the fuck out of you, in the most cruel way that they could. They'd find bits of your body that were vulnerable to intense pain—grabbing you by the ear, or by the nose, and lift you, and say 'Don't cry!' It's very hard not to cry. I mean, not from emotion, but pain. The priests were the same. And I sit and watch politicians with great cynicism, total cynicism.
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he sometimes appeared crotchety and irritable on stage he always gave off an air of charm and serene melancholy, both in his act and in real life. Each day he pored over newspapers, scribbling notes and ideas for his routines. Along with his seated stand-up routines, his television shows were interspersed with filmed sketch comedy.
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The hierarchy of everything in my life has always bothered me. I'm bothered by power. People, whoever they might be, whether it's the government, or the policeman in the uniform, or the man on the door—they still irk me a bit. From school, from the first nun that belted me—people used to think of the
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You wake to the clock, you go to work to the clock, you clock-in to the clock, you clock out to the clock, you come home to the clock, you eat to the clock, you drink to the clock, you go to bed to the clock, you get up to the clock, you go back to work to the clock... You do that for forty years of
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Allen's act was typified by a relaxed, rueful, and intimate style. He sat on a high bar stool facing his audience, smoking and occasionally sipping from a glass of what he always allowed people to assume was whiskey but in fact was merely ginger ale with ice. He was a sober-minded man, and although
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Allen married English actress Judith Stott in 1964. The couple had a daughter, Jane (born 1965), and a son, Edward James Tynan O'Mahony (born 1968), who later became a comedian under the name Ed Allen. Allen was also the stepfather of Stott's son Jonathan. The marriage ended in divorce in 1983.
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above the middle knuckle after catching it in a machine cog. He enjoyed inventing stories to explain the loss, which became a minor part of his act. One version was that his brother John had surprised him by snapping his jaw shut when they were children. A further explanation he gave on his
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The shows introduced his solo joke-telling-while-sitting-on-a-stool-or-chair-and-drinking routine. This stand-up routine by Allen led to sketches continuing the themes touched on in the preceding monologues. Dave Allen also sought theatre roles and in 1972, he acted as a doctor in the
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from 1971 to 1986, which was also exported to several other European countries. He had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s. His television shows were also broadcast in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Yugoslavia, Australia, and New Zealand.
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BBC–released DVD (this copy for Sweden and Finland), back side of its cover states (translated from Swedish; "The best sketches 1971–1986 with Dave Allen" (a combination of him sitting in his famous chair, drinking, smoking and telling jokes – and his
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to "Allen" at the behest of his agent, who believed that few people in the UK could pronounce "O'Mahony" correctly. Allen agreed to the change because he hoped that a surname beginning with "A" would put him at the top of agents' lists.
702:. His targets were often figures of authority, his style was observational rather than gag-driven, and his language was frequently ripe; as such, he was a progenitor for the "alternative" comedians of the 1980s. 358:, whom he described as "one of the most charming and delightful performers with whom I have ever worked". Tucker was impressed with him and suggested he try his luck in Australia. Moving there, he worked with 381:. The ban was quietly dropped as Allen's popularity continued unabated. In July 1964 it was announced that Allen would present a 'series of five-minute radio shows' for Sydney station 2UW under the title 192:. Allen regularly provoked indignation by highlighting political hypocrisy and showing disdain for religious authority. His technique and style have influenced young British comedians. 1123: 709:
In his native Ireland, he always remained somewhat controversial. His mocking of the Catholic Church made him unpopular amongst some Irish Catholics, while his mocking of the
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Initially becoming known in Australia in 1963 and 1964, Allen made regular television appearances in the United Kingdom from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s. The
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clubs; for the next four years, he appeared in various night clubs, theatres, and working men's clubs. When entertainment work was slow, he worked at a toy shop in
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caused minor controversy, which – coupled with sometimes comparatively frank material – earned the show a risqué reputation. In 1977, the Irish state broadcaster
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Allen began dating Karin Stark in 1986, and married her in 2003. The couple had a son, Cullen, who was born three weeks after Allen's death.
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style accent as he ordered Allen to "getta your bum outta Roma!" In 1979, he played a troubled property man suffering a mid-life crisis in
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on 6 July 1936, the son of an Irish father and English mother. His father, Gerard "Cully" Tynan O'Mahony, was the managing editor of
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Highly regarded in Britain, Allen's comic technique and style had a lasting influence on many young British comedians including
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This was quite an innovation, because up to this point there had been no tradition of observational comedy in British stand-up.
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Allen's hobbies included painting, about which he became increasingly enthusiastic in his later years. His first exhibition,
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At the end of his act, Allen always signed off with the words "Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you."
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Allen was also a social commentator, appearing in several television documentaries for ITV, beginning with
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about "offensive language" in broadcasting. In 1993, Allen returned to ITV, where he starred in the
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While on tour in Australia in 1963, he accepted an offer to headline a television talk show for
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Allen's satirising of religious ritual, especially Catholic ones, throughout each episode of
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Story related in "Dave Allen at Peace", telemovie, partially fictionalised), BBC, 2018
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On 10 March 2005, at the age of 68, Allen died peacefully in his sleep as a result of
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Allen was a religious sceptic. He once said he was "what you might call a practising
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By the late 1990s, Allen was living quietly in semi-retirement at his family home in
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Allen returned to the United Kingdom in 1964 and made a number of appearances on
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through electronic confessionals and an extremely excitable pope who spoke in a
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How I escaped my certain fate : the life and deaths of a stand-up comedian
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cited Allen as one of his first comedic influences when he saw his act at the
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Allen's final series for the BBC in 1990 caused controversy with this joke:
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in 1959. He hosted pop music shows in the early 1960s, including tours by
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your life and you retire — what do they fucking give you? A clock!
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in a troupe that also included British jazz trumpeter and writer
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Allen's first television appearance was on the BBC talent show
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on Australian television, becoming Wolfe's resident comedian.
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in a run during 1973 and 1974. Allen played the roles of
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A dramatisation of Allen's life and career, entitled
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Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric
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