Steve Allen
Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allenwas an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. He graduated to become the first host of The Tonight Show, where he was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Thereafter, he hosted numerous game and variety shows, including The Steve...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth26 December 1921
CountryUnited States of America
Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.
Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.
We expect that things are going to slow down, and that slowdown is going to be evident in two ways. One, we are going to see lower sales volume, fewer houses being sold. Secondly, we think the rate of price inflation will be declining fairly dramatically.
These black holes are very efficient, but it also takes a very long time to refuel them.
Public housing units in New Orleans were huge,
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.
We should be able to get more numbers out here to see this, because this is a big event.
We think that will give the students a big edge over people that are just computer science or engineering.
What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll just plant them in a random fashion. That may result in a tree not surviving more than a decade.
I don't know that much about them other than the fact that they gave us a lot of trouble last year over at their yard.
We want to follow Bruce on his path. Some of this could be disappointments; we're going to make it real.
This year saw the best results ever. We are very happy and looking to get better results next year.
Why do we do it, ... Because we?re crazy.