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
sarcastic eye blind
He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.
sarcastic skins waste
He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
sarcastic men punning
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
inspirational sarcastic sarcasm
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
funny sarcastic anger
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
control equipment heart left minds navel people room seeds small television triumph
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
general inventors push screening system voting worked
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.
catch fine known
He's a fine fellow. I've known him a long time. I say they'll never catch him.
american-comedian returned sane
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
great
California is a great place to live if you're an orange.
decide men
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
full
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
gathering people
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
becomes cost income taxpayers
Not every one of those lower-income taxpayers becomes a cost to a state-funded system.