What happens
Fred Allen opens with Brooklyn's 300th anniversary and a round of comic bits with Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, and Minerva Pious. The show moves through a sketch about Senator Claghorn, who discusses music and children and gets tangled up in a rambling anecdote, followed by a bit with the Mad Russian and a call to the Bowery. The Bowery sequence follows Fred Allen as he visits Sammy's Bowery Follies, where a singing waiter named Dennis Day has been stranded since Jack Benny left the air and dreams of a career in radio. The episode is a comedy variety broadcast from the Fred Allen series, aired on June 9, 1946, with Fred Allen and his regular cast.
A radio comedy variety show, with comic sketches set in Brooklyn, a senator's home, and Sammy's Bowery Follies nightclub on the Bowery in New York City.
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Senator Claghorn, Titus Moody, Dennis Day, Jack Benny
Listen for: Listen for Senator Claghorn's rambling speeches and the Bowery sequence with Dennis Day's stranded-waiter story.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.