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    Fred Allen

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    Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #anything #because #done #medium #rare

    A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #gentleman #hat #his #hit #man

    A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #better #even #good #magnify #press

    An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #guy #hollywood #only #producer #who

    An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #form #income #income tax #laundry #like

    California is a great place to live if you're an orange. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #great #live #orange #place #you

    Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #decide #done #group #individually #men

    During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #days #during #enjoying #had #johnson

    Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #ed #ed sullivan #else #long #someone

    Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #creation #go #hat #her #just






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    It also never happened really. E. Allen was able to negotiate a lucrative new contract as a result not only of the show's success but thanks in large measure to NBC's anxiety to keep more of its stars from joining Jack Benny in a wholesale defection to CBS.

    A master ad libber Allen often tangled with his network's executives (and often barbed them on the air over the battles) while developing routines the style and substance of which influenced contemporaries and futures among comic talents including Groucho Marx Stan Freberg Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson but his fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt and novelists William Faulkner John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk (who began his career writing for Allen).

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