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 associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.
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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
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I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
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Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.
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He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.