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
lines littles cry
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.
funny humor men
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.
funny movie humor
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
funny humor men
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
music cat play
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
funny humor play
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
eye two wife
I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' and I said 'I don't feel good.' And tears - uncontrollable tears - was coming out of my eyes. And she said, 'What's the matter?' And I said 'I just thought about that execution I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved with.' And what it was something triggered within and it just - everybody - all of these executions all of a sudden sprung forward.
sarcastic eye blind
He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.