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
paris legs frogs
Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.
funny-life contentment want
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
laughter years aggravation
All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
humor men talking
A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
president ships vices
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
coffee water taste
English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.
agents headache percent
My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.
gnats people television
Television is a triumph of equipment over people,
sense-of-humor conversation fire-escapes
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
funny writing years
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
uncles southern alabama
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
humorous cities paris
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
sarcastic skins waste
He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
travel paris phrases
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.