“I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realise it's me.”

— Dave Allen

Compilation by the BBC 11 March, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4340205.stm

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Irish comedian and satirist 1936–2005

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