Before walking on stage and making people laugh, Fred Allen was an employee of the Boston Public Library. That’s where his scrapbooks were ...

There was one person essential to every comedy/variety show on network radio. It wasn’t the star; both Jack Benny and Jimmy Durante were fo...

In the 1940s, Fred Allen aimed his wit at the witless things in radio—network executives, ad agency executives, banal musical guessing game...

Some of the top radio actors on the West Coast found uncredited regular employment on the Jack Benny show. Two that come to mind are Herb Vi...

Fred Allen’s feud with Jack Benny began with an Allen ad-lib in late 1936 and carried on even after Allen’s radio show came to an end in 194...

Fred Allen wasn’t finished with radio in 1949 when his show for Ford went off the air. In 1950, there were guest appearances on other NBC sh...

Allen’s Alley made a huge impression on radio listeners, even though it was only part of Fred Allen’s show for a small percentage of the tim...

Fred Allen returned to the airwaves on October 7, 1945 after a year away for health reasons. He changed networks (NBC from CBS), sponsors (S...