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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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.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.