Fred Allen's Radio Comedy
by Project Muse, Havig, Alan R.
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""A notable example of radio at its best."" --Back Stage/SHOOTIn 1954, James Thurber wrote: ""You can count on the thumb of one hand the American who is at once a comedian, a humorist, a wit, and a satirist, and his name is Fred Allen."" Several decades after his death and more …
Tracing a career that lasted from 1912 into the 1950s, Havig describes the "verbal slapstick" style that was Fred Allen's hallmark and legacy to American comedy.