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Fred Allen

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.


— Fred Allen


#faces #i #i always #names #remember

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.


— Fred Allen


#dollars #easily #few #i #novel

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.


— Fred Allen


#coffin #fit #i #into #own

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.


— Fred Allen


#i #instrument #little #musical #musical instrument

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.


— Fred Allen


#imitation #sincerest #sincerest form #television

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.


— Fred Allen


#estimation #hole #life #make #men

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.


— Fred Allen


#crop #days #each #failure #first

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.


— Fred Allen


#any #children #except #father #hand

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.


— Fred Allen


#planter #southern #uncle #undertaker

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.


— Fred Allen


#carbon #little #little men #making #mediocrity






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Did you know about Fred Allen?

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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