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
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.
party men people
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.
girl home men
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four
sense-of-humor conversation fire-escapes
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
funny-life contentment want
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
sarcastic skins waste
He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
teaching kids successful
Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.
travel paris phrases
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
inspirational funny teamwork
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.