When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

Quote by Fred Allen

Topics: Actors And Acting Quotes, Laughter Quotes

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

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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on...

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

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what...

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Television is called a medium because anything good on it is rare.

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of...

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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on...

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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if...

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and place it in the navel of...

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I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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

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

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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and...

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian...

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and...

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and...

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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his...

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Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little...