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Monday, March 14, 2005

 
well, i think i have filled the latest celebrity death triumverate.
1st-sandra dee
2nd hunter s thompson
and the obscure to i am sure most, but then to me, HST was obscure. Dave Allen 68.
i am sure many people would say who?
well, way back when. now was it the early 80's? i can't remember when, but it was before HBO and the best we could do was UHF or was it VHF? whatever, i think it was our channel 18 that had on brit coms. like the british three's company. much funnier. and benny hill. but for a few years i think, they had a comedy show. the Dave Allen show. some of it he was urbane, sitting in a chair doing monologues. and then there would be little movie skits. there were always heathcliff and kathy bits. lots of monk bits, funeral procession bits. most of all i remember the heathcliff and kathy.
do i remember anything particular? no. but i do remember it being funny. hmm. it was on at 10pm i think. the late 70's? staying up way too late?

well. thanks for the memories dave.
wonder if they have his shows on DVD?

Comments:
I wondered what happened to Dave Allen. Great show. I stumbled on it purely by accident.
I'm thinking 80s and UHF. VHF is 2-13. The Heathcliff and Kathy thing escapes me. I remember one funeral procession skit where two groups are racing - probably to get done and on their way to the pub.
Always wondered what he really had in that glass. Also distracted by the missing finger joint; he never said anything about his background that I remember.

The references to HST mess me up. He was the president before Ike.

dale
 
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