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    Fred Allen

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    Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #ask #autographs #church #even #god

    Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #device #haven #people #permits #television

    Television is the triumph of machine over people. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #over #people #television #triumph

    The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #before #existed #had #men #space

    The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #first thing #paris #strikes #taxi #the first thing

    I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #annoy #especially #i #like #long

    Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #employees #like #partners #treat

    Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #bad #competition #good #good actor #great

    The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #advertising agency #agency #been #bit #conference

    California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. ↗


    — Fred Allen

    #california #fine #happen #live #orange






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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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