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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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
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I had to come out one more time to take a look. I had a lot of fun and spent a lot of time out here. Our kids grew up out here.
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If you want to stop people from smoking, it takes a much larger tax increase.
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California is a great place to live if you're an orange.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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A vice president in an advertising agency is a ""molehill man"" who has until 5 PM to make a molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.
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Not every one of those lower-income taxpayers becomes a cost to a state-funded system.
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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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A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on