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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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
stars honesty integrity
Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.
father men average
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
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A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.
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I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.
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If children could vote, Jesse Jackson would be our next president.
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Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.
eye brain mind
Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
queens luxury sailing
The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.
funny stars agents
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
funny humor cities
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
funny growing-up humor
He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.
dull tides hometown
My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.