Dave Allen

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R.I.P.

[Tommy BOO]

I'm an Atheist... thank God.
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Kris]

RIP Dave, whichever God you don't believe in, may he be with you xxx
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"fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive."

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Only six months after his television debut in 1963, Dave Allen was banned from the Australian airwaves when on a live show he had told the producer - who had been pressing him to go to a commercial break - to "go away and masturbate" so that he could continue an interview with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

He was not afraid to use the Troubles for comedy material: "Which is the fastest game in the world? It's played in Belfast pubs and is called Pass The Parcel."

Barely into his first show of a new series for the BBC, he began to reflect: "We spend our lives on the run: We get up by the clock, go to work by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A fucking clock."


- excerpts from a newspaper article on him the other day