I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

About Fred Allen

Portrait of Fred Allen

John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian. His absurdist, topically pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio.

More quotations from Fred Allen

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

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

History

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