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Gay Byrne has criticised a recent TV drama which focused on the life of popular comedian Dave Allen.
The biopic saw Aiden Gillen play the Irish funnyman in a one-off show which aired on April 2nd, but broadcaster Gay revealed he couldn’t even finish watching it.
“It was a most peculiar treatment of Dave’s life. I don’t know what the BBC were at, coming up something like this,” he told the Sun.
“To be honest, I didn’t understand it. I watched it for about 45 minutes then I gave up.”
Gay was a big fan of the comedian and interviewed him many times on The Late Late Show and kept in touch with him.
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The show focused on Dave’s life from childhood and featured some of his well-loved sketches recreated by Aiden Gillen.
83-year-old Gay feels that using clips of the comedian would have worked better.
“Excerpts from the real Dave Allen show would have been a lot funnier,” he said.
He was also baffled by the casting of Dave’s father, played by Tommy Tiernan.
“I’m a massive fan of Tommy Tiernan but I don’t know what that was about.”