Steve Allen: an Author, Humorist, Philosopher, Musician, Social Critic, and Performer to name a few of his vocations

Steve Allen, December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000


Steve Allen at Wikipedia


Wrote over 10,000 songs and 50 books.

Quotes:

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

Steve Allen at brainyquote


Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.
http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/steve_allen_a001.htm

Books
Bop Fables (1955)Fourteen for Tonight (1955)
Short story collection
The Funny Men (1956)
Wry on the Rocks (1956)
Poetry
The Girls on the Tenth Floor and Other Stories (1958)
1970 printing: ISBN 0-8369-3608-6
The Question Man... (1959)
Mark It and Strike It: An Autobiography (1960)
Not All of Your Laughter, Not All of Your Tears (1962)
Dialogues in Americanism (1964)
with L. Brent Bozell, Jr., William F. Buckley, Jr., Robert M. Hutchins, James MacGregor Burns, and Willmoore Kendall
Letter to a Conservative (1965)
The Ground is Our Table (1966)
Bigger Than A Breadbox (1967)
The Flash of Swallows (1969)
The Wake (1972)ISBN 0-385-07608-8
Princess Snip-Snip and the Puppy-Kittens (1973)
Curses! or... How Never to Be Foiled Again (1973)ISBN 0-87477-008-4
What To Say When It Rains (1974)ISBN 0-8431-0357-4
Schmock-Schmock! (1975)
ISBN 0-385-09664-X
Meeting of Minds (1978)ISBN 0-517-53383-9
1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-550-4
Chopped-Up Chinese (1978)
Ripoff: A Look at Corruption in America (1979)
With Roslyn Bernstein and Donald H. Dunn
ISBN 0-8184-0249-0
Meeting of Minds, Second Series (1979)ISBN 0-517-53894-6
1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-565-2
Explaining China (1980)ISBN 0-517-54062-2
Funny People (1981)ISBN 0-8128-2764-3
Beloved Son: A Story of the Jesus Cults (1982)ISBN 0-672-52678-6
More Funny People (1982)ISBN 0-8128-2884-4
How to Make a Speech (1986)ISBN 0-07-001164-8
How to Be Funny: Discovering the ComicWithin You (1987)Jane Wollman
ISBN 0-07-001199-0
1992 printing: ISBN 0-87975-792-2
1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-206-4
The Passionate Nonsmoker's Bill of Rights: The First Guide to Enacting Nonsmoking Legislation (1989)
With Bill Adler, Jr.
ISBN 0-688-06295-4
"Dumbth": And 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter (1989)ISBN 0-87975-539-3
1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-237-4
Meeting of Minds, Vol. III (1989)ISBN 0-87975-566-0
Meeting of Minds, Vol. IV (1989)ISBN 0-87975-567-9
The Public Hating: A Collection of Short Stories (1990)ISBN 0-942637-22-4
Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality (1990)ISBN 0-87975-638-1
Hi-Ho, Steverino: The Story of My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of Television (1992)ISBN 0-942637-55-0
large-print edition: ISBN 1-56054-521-6
More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality (1993)ISBN 0-87975-736-1
Make 'em Laugh (1993)ISBN 0-87975-837-6
Reflections (1994)ISBN 0-87975-904-6
The Man Who Turned Back the Clock, and Other Short Stories (1995)ISBN 1-57392-002-9
The Bug and the Slug in the Rug (1995)ISBN 1-880851-17-2
But Seriously...: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind (1996)ISBN 1-57392-090-8
Steve Allen's Songs: 100 Lyrics with Commentary (1999)ISBN 0-7864-0736-0
Steve Allen's Private Joke File (2000)ISBN 0-609-80672-6
Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio—Raising the Standards of Popular Culture (2001)ISBN 1-57392-874-7

February 15, 2009--"Humor from a Journalist" Miles Kington

There are those who read on a train if there is no one to talk to, and those who read on a train for fear that someone will talk to them There are those who buy gadgets when they're still cutting edge and state of the art (i.e. far too expensive) and not worth buying, and those who say they'll wait to buy them till they've come down in price (i.e. till they're worth buying but no longer worth having). There are those who prefer reading a book in hardback, because hardbacks are proper books, unlike flimsy paperbacks, which are just a poor substitute, and there are those who prefer reading books in paperback because paperbacks are proper reading books unlike hardbacks, which are school books and academic texts. There are those who sound their car horn as a peaceful warning and those who sound it as a war cry. There are those who, when eating an apple, just eat the nice, juicy flesh and throw the rest away, and those who nibble it down to the last vestige of fruit round the stalk, yea, down to consuming the bit round the pips and all the skin that is left. Miles Kington British Journalist, Musician, Broadcaster May 13, 1941 - January 30, 2008 (age 67) Miles Kington at The Independent, UK Miles Kington at Wikipedia

© Bob Hoff, 2009