Fred Allen Work Quotations

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

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.

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.