Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman
Allan Shermanwas an American comedy writer and television producer who became famous as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer, became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. His biggest hit single was "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh," a comic novelty in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. He is not to be confused with the songwriter Al Sherman who, coincidentally,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth30 November 1924
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Love is lovelier the 7th time around.
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting."
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.
The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.
Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!