Fred Allen His Life and Wit Author:Robert Taylor His was a simpler time, a time when America enjoyed a different, more personal form of entertainment, when families gathered around the living-room radio once a week to laugh at his particular humor, revel in his distinctive voice, and relish the comic genius that was Fred Allen. This biography, the first of the man who created some of Ame... more »rica's wittiest and most popular radio shows, is an informed and entertaining vision of twentieth-century comedy, seen through vaudeville, Broadway, Hollywood, radio, and early television.« less