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Satire On Surveys And Polls

Wynn Murray performs a lively version of "Comes Love!" while Fred tests audience members on their knowledge of advertising slogans and trivia. Bert Lahr sings "Roses Of Picardy," and the Mighty Allen Art Players present a comedic sketch called "Dr. Scallop's Quandry" that pokes fun at surveys and polling.

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The Fred Allen Show was a long-running American 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.

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“Satire On Surveys And Polls.” The Fred Allen Show. Radio broadcast, October 11, 1939.

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