" Ed Sullivan will last ", comedian Fred Allen said, " as long as someone else has talent ", and frequent guest Alan King said " Ed does nothing, but he does it better than anyone else in television.

* 1920 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach ( d. 2012 )

Hawks's short film The Ransom of Red Chief starred Fred Allen, Oscar Levant and Lee Aaker.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin ' in the Rain as well as Debbie Allen, Fred Astaire, and Bob Fosse.

** Fred Allen, American comedian ( b. 1894 )

* May 31 – Fred Allen, American comedian ( d. 1956 )

The other stories are " The Clarion Call ", " The Last Leaf ", " The Ransom of Red Chief " ( starring Fred Allen and Oscar Levant ), and " The Gift of the Magi ".

Among the stars he accompanied were Nora Bayes and Fred Allen.

Other well-known alumni: syndicated columnist and Politico editor Roger Simon, reclusive media mogul Fred Eychaner, environmental journalist William Allen, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, New York Times columnist David Brooks, author of Bobos in Paradise, pop artist Claes Oldenburg, consumer advocate David Horowitz, columnist Mike Royko, and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Herbert Lawrence Block, ( commonly known as Herblock ).

During this period, Karloff was also a frequent guest on radio programmes, whether it was starring in Arch Oboler's Chicago-based Lights Out productions ( most notably the episode " Cat Wife ") or spoofing his horror image with Fred Allen or Jack Benny.

Portland Mason was named for Portland Hoffa, the wife of the American radio comedian Fred Allen ; the Allens and the Masons were friends.

Top comedy talents surfed the airwaves for many years: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn.

The rest of the cast included humorist Fred Allen, singers Mindy Carson and Frankie Laine, stage musical performer Ethel Merman, actors Jose Ferrer and Paul Lukas, and comic-singer Danny Thomas ( about to become a major television star in his own right ).

In 1960, Herman made his Broadway debut with the revue From A to Z, which featured contributions from newcomers Woody Allen and Fred Ebb as well.

Reportedly, Fred Astaire campaigned to Producer Irwin Allen to write a song for " The Towering Inferno " but ultimately his effort was deemed too old fashioned and thus dismissed.

The founders of modern American stand-up comedy include Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all of whom came from vaudeville.

A " feud " between Fred Allen and Jack Benny, was used as comic material for nearly a decade.

" The same year they were a summer replacement on radio for Fred Allen.

Fred Allen, an All Black of the 1940s who went on to coach the All Blacks to 14 wins from his 14 tests in the 1960s, was born in Oamaru, though not educated there.

In November 2007, Daevid Allen held a series of concerts in Brazil, with a branch of Gong, which was called Daevid Allen and Gong Global Family ( Daevid Allen on vocals and guitar, Josh Pollock on guitar, megaphone and percussion ; Fred Barley on drums and percussion ; Fabio Golfetti on guitar, Gabriel Costa on bass, Marcelo Ringel on flute and tenor saxophone ), along with his other band University of Errors ( Allen, Josh Pollock, Michael Clare, Fred Barley ).

Clockwise from top left: Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, Tallulah Bankhead, Fred Allen and Ethel Merman

This 90-minute variety program was hosted by Tallulah Bankhead and featured a rotating cast that included some of America's and the world's greatest entertainers, including Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, Jimmy Durante, Joan Davis, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, George Jessel, Ethel Merman, José Ferrer, Ed Wynn, Lauritz Melchior, Ezio Pinza, Édith Piaf, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Barrymore, Phil Silvers, Benny Goodman, and Danny Thomas.

Throughout its history, The Queen's Theatre has seen such talents as Peggy Ashcroft, Fred and Adele Astaire, Tallulah Bankhead, Kenneth Branagh, Noël Coward, Henry Daniell, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Edith Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Gielgud, Cedric Hardwicke, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Hawthorne, Celia Johnson, Jane Lapotaire, Alec Guinness, Rachel Kempson, Gertrude Lawrence, Robert Morley, Stephen Fry, Anthony Quayle, Basil Rathbone, Michael Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Margaret Rutherford, Fiona Shaw, Nigel Havers, Maggie Smith, Sybil Thorndike, and Ramin Karimloo.

Clockwise from top left: Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, Tallulah Bankhead, Fred Allen and Ethel Merman

Hosted by legendary stage actress and personality Tallulah Bankhead, The Big Show began November 5, 1950 on NBC with a stellar line-up of guests: Fred Allen, Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, José Ferrer, Portland Hoffa, Frankie Laine, Russell Knight, Paul Lukas, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas and Meredith Willson.

" As a staff writer on those programs, Oppenheimer wrote sketch comedy for many Hollywood stars, including Fred Allen, Talullah Bankhead, Charles Boyer, Fanny Brice, George Burns and Gracie Allen, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, and Spencer Tracy.

The Big Shows November 26, 1950 installment, for example, took the cast of Bankhead, Fred Allen, Jack Carson, Melchoir and Ed Wynn to the fictitious Duffy's Tavern, where Ed Gardner, in character as Archie the manager, awaited them.

Fred Allen, who frequently joked about his own radio demise, joined Bankhead in recreating one of the best-remembered routines from Allen's old show: the " Mr. and Mrs. Breakfast Show " routine that ruthlessly satirized the often saccharine husband-and-wife morning shows that became something of a radio staple a decade earlier.

We may assume there is no reason to believe Fred treats one bowl differently from another, likewise for the cookies.

Fred Halliday states that rather than having damaging implications, the story is a cautionary tale, the point of which is " not to malign God but to point up the frailty of human beings ," and that even a prophet may be misled by shaytan — though ultimately shaytan is unsuccessful.

In the Australian state of Queensland, Ombudsman Fred Albietz ruled in 1998 that public schools may not require uniforms.

The poem that Fred asks Laura to assist him with is by John Keats: " When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be ".

Fred Eckhard, a UN spokesman who filed the complaint, says that this activity may violate the Security Council resolution that set up the zone, but adds that it was up to the UN Security Council to make a determination.

Fred suspects that Renee may be cheating on him.

Fred may refer to:

If Fred and Joe address the issue of whether or not Fred's cat has fleas, Joe may state: " Fred, your cat has fleas.

However, if Fred and Joe agree on the fact that the cat has fleas, they may further question why this is so and put forth an explanation: " The reason the cat has fleas is that the weather has been damp.

Frederick, Freddie, or Fred Mitchell may refer to:

Software bloat may also be a symptom of the second-system effect, described by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month.

Frederick Roberts or Fred Roberts may refer to:

She may have been the model for Diana Barry, Anne of Green Gables ' " bosom friend ": both had unusual, non-Christian first names, and the fictional Diana's husband was named, perhaps not coincidentally, Fred Wright.

Fred Astaire's and Gene Kelly's filmographies may significantly contribute to these lists.

The SPC may have been responsible for defeating of centrist labour candidate Fred Dixon in the election of 1910.

Nola Jones conducted the Regional Honor Band, which prepared ( but may not have publicly performed all of ) some works by Joseph Olivadoti, Jacob de Haan, Jan Van der Roost, Gustav Holst, Fred M Hubbell, and Thomas S Allen.

When her CEO contacts her and asks her to meet him for dinner afterward, she worries that her job may be in danger and engages the help of a headhunter named Nick Harris ( Fred Weller ) to look for a new position.

So Fred for instance may be just half between happy and sad ( one construct ) and definitively clever rather than stupid ( another construct ).

In the United States, they may be used to demonstrate copying, but are not always sufficient to prove legal infringement if the material was not eligible for copyright ( see Feist v. Rural, Fred Worth lawsuit or Nester's Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co., 796 F. Supp.

Fred, Frederic, or Frederick Smith may refer to:

Originally named " Allison ", after his first wife, Fred renamed the engine " Betsy " ( his mother's name ) following his divorce – Fred's view being " wives may change but your mother remains your mother!

Fred Davis, Frederic Davis or Frederick Davis may refer to:

Prof. Fred Wendorf and Dr. Romuald Schild, of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, originally thought to have found evidence of early agriculture in Upper Paleolithic times at Wadi Kubbaniya, on the Kom Ombos plateau, of Egypt, including a mortar and pestle, grinding stones, several harvesting implements and charred wheat and barley grains — which may have been introduced from outside the region.

Also dismissed in the 2005 book for not having been reported on contemporaneously is a story that may have first appeared in Fred Lieb ’ s “ The Humorous Side of Baseball ’’ in Baseball Magazine in 1921.