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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Fred Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan on May 31, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American comedian whose absurdist, pointed radio show (1934–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humourists in the so-called classic era of American radio.
		Fred Allen (May 31, 1894 - March 17, 1956) was a United States comedian best known for his witty, pointed radio programs of the 1930s and 1940s, including a comic "feud" with comedian Jack Benny.
		Allen remained in competition with the program until 1949 when his ratings were so low compared that he was taken off the air after 17 years in radio.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fred-Allen (541 words)

	Fred Allen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan on May 31, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American comedian whose absurdist, pointed radio show (1934–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humourists in the so-called classic era of American radio.
		Fred Allen's first taste of radio came while he and Portland Hoffa waited for a promised slot in a new Arthur Hammerstein musical.
		Fred Allen was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Allen (3845 words)

	The Comedy-O-Rama Fred Allen Tribute Page - Quotes - June 1999
		Allen was sort of the facilitator of all of these characters.
		Allen was more than a comedian, he was also a social satirist taking pot shots as the medium of radio and television.
		Fred Allen, the "man whose face was made for radio" had several long-lived programs on the radio between 1932 and 1949.
	www.comedyorama.com /fredallen/fred-quote.htm (1090 words)

	Fred Allen - Biography - Moviefone
		Allen's true radio personality began coming across in his long-running Town Hall Tonight (1934-41), in which he enjoyed deviating from the script for a wry adlib or satiric barb.
		It was during this period that Allen launched a desultory film career (he'd already appeared in a handful of short subjects in the early 1930s).
		In 1935's Thanks a Million, Allen was in his element as the cynical manager of a broken-down theatrical troupe; he was less well served in Sally, Irene and Mary (1938).
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/fred-allen/212218/biography (554 words)

	Allen, Fred
		Allen was a radio comedian for nearly two decades who, as early as 1936, had a weekly radio audience of about 20 million.
		Allen's world of radio was highly competitive and commercial, just as TV would be many years later.
		When Fred Allen was asked what he thought of television, he said he didn't like furniture that talked.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/A/htmlA/allenfred/allenfred.htm (1093 words)

	Fred Allen
		Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) was an American comedian best known for his witty, pointed radio programs of the 1930s and 1940s, including a comic feud with comedian Jack Benny.
		Allen was famous among his peers for his ability to ad-lib - a skill that Benny famously paid tribute to, responding to a mock insult with the line "You wouldn't say that if my writers were here."
		Allen was born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Fred_Allen.html (101 words)

	Alan Havig: Fred Allen’s Radio Comedy - Print
		More than a biography of Fred Allen, this is a study of the development of the radio industry, a discussion of American humor, and the story of how one relates to the other.
		Using a wide variety of published and unpublished sources, including the Allen Papers, Havig analyzes Allen’s radio comedy of the 1930s and 40s within the context of the peculiar advantages and limitations of radio as a medium for comedy.
		Allen developed a comedic style that depended on word play, sound effects, and on his audience’s ability and readiness to imagine a visual world in which his eccentric characters operated.
	www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/660_reg_print.html (494 words)

	Radio Hall of Fame - Fred Allen, Comedian
		Allen and his wife, former chorus girl Portland Hoffa, began their radio career on October 23, 1932, starring on The Linit Bath Club Revue.
		Allen’s best-remembered feature was “Allen’s Alley,” a weekly segment in which he would discuss issues of the day with eccentric creations like the blustery Senator Claghorn, Brooklyn housewife Pansy Nussbaum and stoic New Englander Titus Moody.
		Allen was known to read up to nine newspapers a day and often spent 12 to 14 hours a day writing and re-writing his scripts.
	www.radiohof.org /comedy/fredallen.html (213 words)

	Fred Allen Summary
		Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan on May 31, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, died March 17, 1956 in New York City) was an American comedian whose absurdist, pointed radio show (1934–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking hum...
		In the following excerpt, Havig characterizes Allen's humor as "verbal slapstick, " which he attributes to Allen's use of puns, double entendres, and hyperbole.
		In the following essay, Allen—a noted comedian and television host and no relation to Fred Allen—reminisces about Allen, his career in radio, and the reasons behind his failure to adapt his comic style to television.
	www.bookrags.com /Fred_Allen (173 words)

	Fred Allen: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Allen was famous among his peers for his ability to ad-lib Ad lib quick summary:
		Fred Allen started his career in radio the same year as Jack Benny, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Allen remained in competition with the program until 1949 when his ratings were so low that he was taken off the air, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/fred_allen.htm (1369 words)

	Mr. Fred J. Allen
		FRED J. ALLEN was appointed Director of Bands at Stephen F. Austin State University in June 1994.
		Allen is a frequent clinician and adjudicator in Texas and the Southwest.
		Pieces arranged and composed by Allen are consistently programmed at the annual MidWest Band Clinic and Convention and at various state conventions, such as the Texas Music Educators Association Convention.
	www.music.sfasu.edu /faculty/f_allen.html (337 words)

	New Zealand All Blacks Player Profiles, Match Details and Statistics
		Fred Allen has had a long association with Auckland and Auckland rugby but actually hails from the South Island.
		Allen was one of the great successes of the tour, playing in 28 of the 38 matches (only Johnny Smith and Jim Sherratt played as many games).
		Allen, who shouldered much of the coaching on that tour, was affected by injuries and stood down from the final two test matches.
	stats.allblacks.com /Profile.asp?ABID=7 (583 words)

	Fred Allen - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
		Fred Allen, who comically feuded with Jack Benny on the air for years, invented an entirely...
		Fred Allen, the "man whose face was made for radio" had several...
		Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. Fred Alan Wolf is a popular author of 11 books and aa frequent speaker and independent scholar/researcher in physics and consciousness.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/fred-allen/212218/main (170 words)

	Fred Allen : Comedian Profile
		Fred Allen was a United States comedian best known for his witty, pointed radio programs of the 1930s and 1940s, including a comic "feud" with comedian Jack Benny.
		Allen was born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Irish Catholic parents.
		Allen's humor was topical, with a more absurdist and literate slant than other comics, which limits its appeal to modern audiences.
	www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/a/allen-fred.htm (580 words)

	Fred Allen Show
		Fred Allen was the undisputed master of the adlib,often throwing out his scripts during a show he and Jack Benny begain a long running Feud.And a regular stroll down Allen's Alley With failing health,Allen left Radio in June 1949 and became a panelist on TV's "Whats my Line Until his Death on March 17, 1955.
		NBC Fred analyzes the statutes for pedestrians in New York.
		Fred and guest Tallulah Bankhead do their version of an early morning radio show.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/3688/allen.html (1020 words)

	Amazon.com: Fred Allen: His Life and Wit: Books: Robert Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For two decades Fred Allen, "the man with the flat voice," was America's most brilliant radio humorist, and for a time his program was the most popular in the country.
		Fred Allen, who lived from 1894-1956, is best remembered for his feud with Jack Benny and a skit on his own radio program in the later years, "Allen's Alley", which featured four dwellers of various ethnic backgrounds responding to Allen's news of the day question.
		Fred's life with Portland Hoffa, his wife, is recounted from the day they met until that fateful day in 1956 when the police found Fred's body along the streets of New York.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316833886?v=glance (1090 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Forgotten Laughter: The Fred Allen Story
		Allen was the hardest-working of radio’s funnymen, the only star of the new medium who tried to feed its voracious maw almost single-handedly, week after week, year after year.
		Allen had to be available all day Tuesday to argue about changes- he would “climb up the wall and scream and yell” over them, Pat Weaver recalled—and to make alterations in the script when he lost the battles.
		Allen, often having carried a brown-bag lunch, sat at the head of the conference table and the clippings would be passed up to him for inspection, or jokes suggested.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1988/1/1988_1_98.shtml (5123 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - Colleagues Remember Radio Great Fred Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hample was one of nine men on hand Wednesday night (March 6) at the 19th Annual William S. Paley Television Festival to present a tribute to Fred Allen, one of America's pre-eminent radio personalities from the first half of the last century.
		Allen, of course, was known as one of the strongest wits of the radio age.
		But Allen, who died in 1956 at the age of 61, never became as popular as some of his contemporaries -- like Jack Benny -- after the introduction of television proved to be more than a fad.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|74388\|1\|10,00.html (351 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Fred Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fred J. Allen FRED J. Fred J. Allen is Director of Bands at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.
		FRED J. Fred J. Allen is Director of Bands at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.
		Allen is a member of College Band Directors National Association, Texas Music Educators Association, and Phi Beta Mu honorary bandmasters fraternity.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Allen_Fred_5083137.htm (801 words)

	Amazon.com: All the Sincerity in Hollywood: Selections from the Writings of Fred Allen: Books: Fred Allen,Stuart Hample (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fred Allen was the king of humor during radio's Golden Age.
		Allen had a quality that even his stickiest barbs could not long obscure: he was a genuinely warm, humane man, whose affection and friendship was probably coveted even more than his impeccable wit.
		Fred Allen, the only satirical comedian of radio's golden age, is revealed as a true American humorist, in the pantheon with Thurber, lardner and Twain.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1555911544?v=glance (1457 words)

	Fred Allen - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Allen's comedy was almost always topical and satiric, and throughout his career he was famed for being as sharp with the quip as any live radio comedian.
		Allen's prime seasons of 1945-48 are great satirical radio, loaded with topical laughs, musical parodies and great characters that are timeless in their inventiveness and audience appeal.
		Allen was famous for ad-lib bing and cracking up the audience with running comments on the jokes and the show itself, as he had come up from Vaudeville and Broadway.
	www.otrcat.com /fredallen.htm (1102 words)

	Fred Allen Quotes - The Quotations Page
		It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
		Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
		Fred Allen, on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
	www.quotationspage.com /quotes.php3?author=Fred+Allen (272 words)

	Biography for Fred Allen (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fred Allen, the well-known comedian who went on to star in radio, television, and film, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894 and educated at Boston University.
		He produced, wrote, and starred in "The Fred Allen Show" on radio from 1939 to 1949 and starred on the television show "Judge for Yourself" from 1953 to 1954.
		One of Fred Allen's best known schticks was his long-standing feud with fellow comedian Jack Benny.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0020521/bio (491 words)

	Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
		Allen began his vaudeville career as a juggler, and a poor one at that: he billed himself at one time as the “World’s Worst.” He soon discovered that the comedy he had added to his act was wowing audiences more, so he abandoned juggling and thereafter found himself in great demand on the vaudeville circuit.
		But Allen, like many performers from that era, soon realized that vaudeville was not long for this world—and that a gig on this new-fangled medium of radio would provide a great deal more economic stability.
		Allen was, at this particular juncture, enjoying the greatest ratings of his radio career—his show was the No. 1 comedy program of the 1947-48 season.
	blogs.salon.com /0003139/2003/11/14.html (3761 words)

	Fred's Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fred Allen has been involved with the presentation of live performance for over 30 years.
		Fred was instrumental in the re-opening of three historic theaters in Los Angeles: Royce Hall, the Wiltern Theater, and the Doolittle theater.
		Allen created a partnership, to manufacture and distribute Field Templates TM, revolutionizing the concept of lighting design templates.
	www.fieldtemplate.com /contact/fred_bio.html (223 words)

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		Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, astronomical observatory located 35 mi (56 km) S of Tucson, Ariz., at an altitude of 8,500 ft (2,590 m).
		He began his career at age 22 at a radio station...
		...NUMBER: 4452 AUTHOR: Fred Allen QUOTATION: Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective...
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	THE FRED ALLEN SHOW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fred: As the dollar dinner said when the glutton sat down, I'll be gone in a minute.
		Fred: That was just a short order of "Who Do You Love," I hope, played by maestro Al Goodman and his forty men who...
		Fred: Look, Jack, if there ever was a time that you and I should not argue, this is the time.
	www.jackbenny.org /scripts/fredallen052646.htm (2725 words)

	Fred Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fred Allen an international speaker, poet, writer, cartoonist, and teacher.
		A former pastor and college teacher, he is the president and co-founder of Burning Bush Ministries, a non-profit organization based in Salem, Oregon.
		Sonia Allen, co-founder and vice president of Burning Bush Ministries, is a homemaker, homeschooler, artist, and art educator.
	www.christianrenewalcenter.org /fredallen.htm (218 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Don Freeman -- 'World's Worst Juggler' always had a ball
		The legacy of Fred Allen was the subject recently in a discussion at New York's Museum of Television and Radio.
		During the Depression and the World War II years, Fred Allen and his troupe brought laughter to the nation.
		Allen was the first to make cities his target.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/freeman/20011228-9999_1c28freeman.html (534 words)

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