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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
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Long
Humor
Talent
Comedy

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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.
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On ships they call them barnacles in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
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He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
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I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.
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In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.
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He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
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If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.
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He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
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Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.
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Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
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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.
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English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.
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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.
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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.
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