Fred Allen
Fred Allen
John Florence Sullivan, known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically-pointed radio program The Fred Allen Showmade him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth31 May 1894
CityCambridge, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
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He's a fine fellow. I've known him a long time. I say they'll never catch him.
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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We take nominations from the general public, and they go through a screening and voting, which has worked very well for the most part. But it's been a less-than-perfect system for long-dead inventors who don't have a constituency to push for them.
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If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard -- let him worry about cutting it.
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When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
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A vice president in an advertising agency is a ""molehill man"" who has until 5 PM to make a molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.
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Television is a triumph of equipment over people and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart
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California is a great place to live if you're an orange.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
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A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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If you want to stop people from smoking, it takes a much larger tax increase.
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I had to come out one more time to take a look. I had a lot of fun and spent a lot of time out here. Our kids grew up out here.