LONDON (Reuters) - Irreverent Irish comedian Dave Allen, famed in for his sit-down comic routines with a whisky in one hand and cigarette in the other, has died aged 68.
The loss of Dave Allen brought home to me, how much we have lost in the art of gracious comedy: the ability to point out, minus the use of swear words and abusive attitudes, the hypocrisy of the Church, and the double-dealing of our politicians.
To comment on our world without resorting to irrational invective.
In other words understand the absurdity and laugh about it.
Gracious Dave left no-one in any doubt that the glass in his hand did not, and never would, contain cold tea or any other fake alchohol, it was whisky and nothing else.
To Gracious Dave, a fond farewell.
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