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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A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
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He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
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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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Not every one of those lower-income taxpayers becomes a cost to a state-funded system.
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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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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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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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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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I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
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A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.