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
easter home kids
I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.
radio done wells
Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.
criticism would-be harm
If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
life-sucks noses world
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
family tree looks
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
skins stories humans
A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
cows milk littles
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
uplifting cutting worry
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.
love stay-strong goal
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
issues office faces
It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.
two kind funny-jokes
There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.
skins humans human-beings
To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.
money aspirin radio
After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.
promise able frozen
With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.