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
uncles southern alabama
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
anger use argument
He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
humorous cities paris
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
funny humor agency
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
competition historical comedian
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.
humor men talking
A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
easter home kids
I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.
funny stars mistake
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
uplifting cutting worry
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.
cows milk littles
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
family tree looks
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
love stay-strong goal
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
funny stars humor
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
funny failure humor
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.