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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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 conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.
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Television is a triumph of equipment over people,
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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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Television is the triumph of machine over people.
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If you want to stop people from smoking, it takes a much larger tax increase.
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We take nominations from the general public, and they go through a screening and voting, which has worked very well for the most part. But it's been a less-than-perfect system for long-dead inventors who don't have a constituency to push for them.
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He's a fine fellow. I've known him a long time. I say they'll never catch him.
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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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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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I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
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Not every one of those lower-income taxpayers becomes a cost to a state-funded system.