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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All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
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He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.
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English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.
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After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.