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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) US radio comedian




Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen




What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
Fred Allen


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.
Fred Allen



[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen



I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953



Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
Fred Allen, on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950