Sitting on a bar stool, urbane, sharp-suited, a cigarette in one hand and a whisky (in reality ginger ale) in the other, Dave Allen was an after-hours kind of comedian. His jokes about the Catholicism in which he was raised and at religion in general earned him the reputation in some circles as a blaspheming provocateur.
04 April 2018, The Tablet
Biopic pays homage to the Irish comedian Dave Allen
Dave Allen: sophisticated, absurdist, closely observed humour
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