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.
party men people
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.
anger use argument
He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
girl home men
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four
competition historical comedian
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
teaching kids successful
Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.
long comedy talent
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
dull tides hometown
My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.
lines littles cry
Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.
stars honesty integrity
Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.
music cat play
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
queens luxury sailing
The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.
eye two wife
I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' and I said 'I don't feel good.' And tears - uncontrollable tears - was coming out of my eyes. And she said, 'What's the matter?' And I said 'I just thought about that execution I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved with.' And what it was something triggered within and it just - everybody - all of these executions all of a sudden sprung forward.
eye brain mind
Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.