Fred Allen--Town Hall Tonight (1935-1939)
The classic series by radio's master satirist. Including the classic "Town Hall News" and the Mighty Allen Art Players.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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fred allen is so great/audio not good at all
kristinmak
On number 6 the audio was SO bad, your brain has to strain to decipher the words they are saying, because you only hear a tiny fraction of the bandwidth. Only the vowels are decipherable. A lot of the quips are lost because of that. Taking off two stars for it. Fred Allen: he's wonderful and his humor is never ill-natured. He does do the a Chinese detective, obviously a parody of Mr Moto that is such a scream. You might feel left out of some of the jokes if you are ignorant of American history like the war rationings, housing crisis, and some jokes about other entertainers in that era. Even so, a lot of his humor is very, very funny and in a surreal and very intelligent way, but so funny that you will laugh to yourself over most of them. What a neat guy Fred Allen was. Too bad he passed away so young in life.
Listen to what has to be some of Garrison Keillor's inspiration, as it was for …
DesiluTrek
If you love "A Prarie Home Companion," you will love the droll wit of Fred Allen and his variety show, and recognize it as a direct ancestor of what Keillor still does so well today. These shows are still great fun, better still when you read and understand a little more about Allen and the show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Allen#.22It.27s_Town_Hall_Tonight.21.22
Had to leave a 5-star review...
Matt Sweeney136
...if only to offset kristinmak's bitchy comment about the audio quality of *one* track. She strikes me as the kind of person who asks to speak to the manager two or three times a day.