Dave Allen chosen by Adil Ray
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Dave Allen is chosen by Adil Ray, creator and star of Citizen Khan. He explains to Matthew Parris how the legendary Irish comic helped shape his own career.
Producer: Perminder Khatkar.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.
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| 0:47.6 | And we have this week's great life, David Tainan O'Mani, or better known to us as Dave Allen, smooth, suave, sit-down stand-up comic. |
| 0:58.0 | He's championed this week by actor and comedian Adil Ray. Adil started off his career as a broadcaster and presenter working with the Asian |
| 1:06.3 | Network, then Radio 5 Live to Radio 2, along with some TV work, but it was his taking a role in the BBC One series Citizen Khan, a comedy |
| 1:16.0 | about a Pakistani self-appointed community leader from Birmingham that was perhaps when his |
| 1:21.9 | national reputation really took off. |
| 1:24.0 | Adil, you've got yourself into deep water for your series Citizen Khan, |
| 1:30.0 | the first provoking a number of complaints from viewers who didn't like poking fun at Islam and what |
| 1:37.1 | they saw as stereotyping Asians. |
| 1:40.2 | And Dave Allen too got himself into trouble with being pretty impertinent about religion. |
| 1:46.0 | There's a meeting of minds here. |
| 1:47.4 | Is this what drew you to him in the first place? |
| 1:49.4 | Well I just thought I'd take this opportunity to blame Dave Allen really. |
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