Allen, Fred

Fred Allen (1894–1957), U.S. radio comic. Letter, June 12, 1953, to co...


• I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
American Magazine (Dec. 1945)


• California is a fine place to live—if you happen to be an orange.
quoted in Forbes (New York, August 1, 1967)


• Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six stran...
quoted in No People Like Show People


• Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
quoted in Paris After Dark


• The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or...
Treadmill to Oblivion


• We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to s...
• A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk...
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