Dave Allen (July 6, 1936 – March 10, 2005)

I used to watch Dave Allen on Canadian television, long before I moved to England in 1985. He was famous for being an Irish Roman Catholic who wasn’t afraid to make fun of religion, like this:

Over the weekend, when we weren’t watching the Stanley Cup playoffs, we watched comedy routines. One of us had never heard of Dave Allen before, so it was a revelation to him.

This chart is rectified to his Saturn being at the age of twelve when his father died. The three inconjuncts spell out his role as ‘society’s conscience’: Sun inconjunct Jupiter; Moon inconjunct Mars; and Venus inconjunct Jupiter. In addition, Mercury is in opposition to Jupiter and Uranus is in opposition to Pluto. I suspect everything he says is done with affection, at least when he was younger.

Now, compare his humour with my next guest’s:

George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)

Everyone on this side of the pond knows George Carlin. Probably most of his notoriety comes from the “Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV” live show: he was arrested in Milwaukee for it. But we knew him in the 60’s as a counterculture figure, when he was Al Sleet, the Hippy Dippy Weatherman.

I began to suspect that these two might have similar impulses, but I hadn’t realized that they were born within a year of each other. That means that the slower planets would not have moved very far.

This is considered a good time for Carlin’s birth. Note, however that there are no inconjuncts, so what you see is what you get. That makes so much of a difference between them. Carlin’s sh*te disturbance comes from Jupiter in opposition of Pluto. One of his latest videos demonstrates his penchant for violent ideas and rude language.

I guess the other difference is the environment. But what is similar between them is the need to point out the ‘bloody’ obvious to the audience.

Comparing their birth charts demonstrates the slower planets hardly moving for a year, but there is one surprising ‘other’ connection: Carlin’s North Node is conjunct Allen’s Jupiter. Hmm. What does that mean?

Could they be comics-in-arms?