Highlights from the Sessions news conference

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hat tip, Fred Allen: The Fred Allen Show

The Fred Allen Show was a popular and long-running American old-time radio comedy program starring comedian Fred Allen and his wife Portland Hoffa. Over the course of the program's 17-year run, it was sponsored by Linit Bath Soaps, Hellmann's, Ipana, Sal Hepatica, Texaco and Tenderleaf Tea. The program ended in 1949 under the sponsorship of the Ford Motor Company.

The most popular period of the program was the few years of sponsorship under the Texaco Gas Company. During this time, the program was known as Texaco Star Theatre with Fred Allen. On the December 6, 1942 episode of the program, Allen premiered his first in a series of segments known as "Allen's Alley". The segments would have Allen strolling through an imaginary neighborhood, knocking on the "doors" of various neighbors, including average-American John Doe (played by John Brown), Mrs. Nussbaum (Minerva Pious), pompous poet Falstaff Openshaw (Alan Reed), Titus Moody (Parker Fennelly), and boisterous southern senator Beuregard Claghorn (announcer Kenny Delmar). Texaco ended its sponsorship of the program in 1944.

Senator Claghorn

[turbinetree]

1. Beautiful just beautiful spot on

now the orange hair clown show begins, if we get a "independent" prosecutor

[gopiscrap]

2. love it

[cab67]

3. I just can't like this.

The current attorney general is unworthy of Mel Blanc's genius.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Say what you will, but he plays a mean banjo

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Bless his heart!

Thanks for these classics, it helps, it truly does son.