The Essential Dave Allen

by Graham MacCann and Graham McCann

Book Overview

When Dave Allen passed away in March 2005, we lost a true comedy great. Sitting cross-legged on a high stool, whiskey in one hand, cigarette in the other, Dave Allen's exasperated commentaries on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034089945X
• ISBN13: 9780340899458
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One More Time With Dave Allen

My husband and I would look forward to Sunday evenings in the 80's on PBS for Dave Allen at Large. It was a combination of great Irish stories told by Mr. Allen and also several hilarious skits ala Benny Hill. My favorite is musical chairs with clerics marching around in high ceremony and then frantically scrambling to land on a chair! These thoughts came to mind while reading The Essential Dave Allen. What a brilliant comic mind he had. I'd love to have a DVD of Allen's stories and skits from his show but this book is the closest thing in lieu of that. I recommend it to all fans of Dave Allen from the past and all young people of the present who would appreciate a really good laugh or two or three!!

Hilarious book - a great fun read

Thoroughly enjoying this book, love Dave Allen's humour and jokes - truely was a one of a kind. Highly recommended.