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 income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
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Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
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The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
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The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
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If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
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If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
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Television is the triumph of machine over people.