Tape recorder ever in hand, with a battery of typists on the ready, author Steve Allen spent a lifetime producing an outpouring of novels, short stories, plays, musical comedies, poems, magazine and newspaper articles, as well as comedy material.  His published books to date number 54.  His articles, verse and stories have appeared in magazines, newspapers and syndicates such as: Look, Saturday Review, Television Quarterly, New York Times, Cavalier, Frontier, Redbook, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago American, Indianapolis News, United Press International, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, Coronet, Playboy, America, Cosmopolitan, National Review, Wall Street Journal, Esquire, and InterContinental Press -- to name a few.

   Steve was often asked where he got his ideas but had no ready answer.  "Creativity, of just about any sort, is a mysterious process," he said.  "Nobody knows how the world's poets and story tellers get ideas.  You're brushing your teeth and suddenly you think: Hey, there's an idea for a book!  Obviously it wasn't brushing your teeth that gave you the idea."

   Allen attributed his proficiency, in part, to an insatiable curiosity.  He dictated thoughts as they came to mind (which seemed to be almost every waking moment).  The accumulated materials took the form of jokes, sketches, poems, essays, songs, magazine articles, or additions for one of his many books "in progress."

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   When Steve Allen passed away on October 30, 2000, he had just finished two more books, Steve Allen's Private Joke File (published on December 5, 2000 and available at the Steve Allen Store -- see below) and Vulgarians at the Gate, published in Spring 2001.
    Vulgarians At The Gate  rose to # 7 on the Los Angeles Times non-fiction Best Seller list by the summer of 2001.  Mr. Allen was also at work on several other books -- check back here on SteveAllenOnline for news on these new titles in the coming years. 

Attention Steve Allen Fans!  Please check out books available below from the Steve Allen Store.  Most are on sale for the Holiday Season.  Order early while supplies last!!

	SPECIAL LOW PRICE!!! Steve Allen's Private Joke File -- New in 2001! SPECIAL PRICE:  Only $11.95 plus s&h Steve Allen is a legend among comedians and entertainers. He played to audiences on stage, radio, film and television for more than 50 years, gaining acclaim for his unique wit and energy. Now, for the first time, here are more than a thousand of his favorite one-liners, anecdotes, limericks, quotes, other general funny things. The entries are divided into nearly two hundred categories to make it easy for anyone to find the right laugh for any occasion. If you're faced with the prospect of having to "say a few words", Steve Allen's Private Joke File is the perfect place to look for ideas and inspiration on such topics as awards, drinking, baseball, lawyers, dentists, insurance, marriage, the stock market, and dozens of other subjects. A sampling: - My wife and I had words, but I never got to use mine! - If ignorance is bliss, he should die of joy. - "How are the acoustics here?" "Great, I can hardly hear you!" - I learned to rumba very early in life....I had a tricycle with a loose seat. - Room for rent, by young lady, freshly plastered. Steve Allen has also included a number of his favorite essays and monologues. Steve Allen's Private Joke File is great to flip through for fun or for function, and for those of us looking for a good laugh--to give one or to have one--it's indispensable. Click here for online ordering information.
	Special Offer -- While Supplies Last! You can own a hard-cover, guaranteed authentic autographed copy of Hi-Ho, Steverino!  Only $19.95 plus s&h  (Limited Supply) Steve Allen's 38th book is an autobiography covering his fifty years in radio and television. Filled with comedy, both on- and off-camera, this is Allen's first-person look at the Golden Age of TV. Hi-Ho, Steverino includes Steve's experiences as creator and first host of the Tonight Show, and his years as star of his own primetime comedy series The Steve Allen Show, where he worked with such gifted comedy players as Don Knotts, Tom Poston, Louis Nye, Pat Harrington, Jr., Gabriel Dell, Bill Dana, Dayton Allen, Buck Henry, Tim Conway, The Smothers Brothers, and Jim Nabors. In recalling the glory years of these series, Allen reminisces about getting to know such luminous guests as Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis. There's a chapter on Allen's award-winning PBS series Meeting of Minds, and reports on his other comedy-and-talk shows, series and specials, in which he relates on-the-air TV boners, mistakes, and technical mishaps that are now part of the comic folklore of television history. Along the way, Steve Allen pays tribute to Arthur Godfrey, Ernie Kovacs, Jack Paar, Dave Garroway, Jerry Lester, and other video pioneers. Click here for online ordering information.
	How To Be Funny, Discovering the comic you by Steve Allen  (with Jane Wollman) SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICE:  Only $11.95 plus s&h No one knows more about comedy than Steve Allen. For four decades as a writer, performer, and keen observer of the social scene, he has looked into every aspect of who's funny, and why. Now he shares his discoveries in a book designed to help every reader develop his or her special talent for funniness. For anyone who wants to be a more amusing conversationalist, a more effective public speaker, or just more fun to be around, How to Be Funny is as foolproof as a Steve Allen punch line. Click here for online ordering information.
	Schmock-Schmock! by Steve Allen  SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICE:  Only $11.95 plus s&h This is a rare,  early collection of Steve's radio, television and literary humor guaranteed to bring many a chuckle. Edited from the book jacket cover: He's been the original Talk Show host, a comedian, an after-dinner speaker, night-club entertainer and serious actor... He's been attacked by tarantulas, overrun by large red ants, blown up by dynamite... Who else could host a "Prickly Heat Telethon" or invade kitchens as the renowned "Graham Cracker" for a cooking show called "The Rollicking Gourmet"?... He's done slapstick, farce, satire, parody, physical stunts, even outrageous puns... That high-pitched, falsetto-executed "Schmock-Schmock!" is his trademark and it says it all. Scathing in its disregard for dullness, naturally funny in its sound, inherently absurd, its uninhibited zest stands for the high life of the spontaneous and unexpected--and the just plain enjoyment of a good time. And now here is Steve Allen at his best, with comedy monologues from his TV appearances, snippets from the early years of "The Tonight Show," after-dinner repartee, some of his wild off-camera television commercials, the transcript of his memorable night as the Mystery Guest on "What's My Line" when host John Daly committed the one unforgivable sin, his television sketches (the famous "You Bet Your Bird" and others), sketches for the theatre ("Whatever by Harold Splinter," "The Genius's Wife," etc.) and many other Allen classics, such as "The National Jerk Test," "What Is a Clyde?" and"Little Hip Riding Hood." Click here for online ordering information.
	The Public Hating -- a collection of short stories by Steve Allen SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICE:  Only $11.95 plus s&h This is a collection of  Steve Allen's most brilliant short stories which takes the name of one of the tales as title for the collection. The Public Hating itself has been published in a number of anthologies, as well as in Germany, Sweden and Japan. It says something important about the disturbing phenomenon of mass-hatred. Stories: Irene, The Cats, The Sidewalk, Joe Shulman Is Dead, The Girls on the Tenth Floor, The Award, The Secret, One Reason Television Is So Terrible, The Italian Voices, Houston Incident, Everybody Hates David Starbucks, The Southern Accent, The House In Bel Air, The Pigeon, The Interview, The Saint, "I Hope I'm Not Intruding", The Strangers, The Scribbler, The Blood of the Lamb, Point Of View ,The Sunday Morning Shift  and The Public Hating. Click here for online ordering information.
	Ripoff -- The Corruption That Plagues America by Steve Allen SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICE:  Only $11.95 plus s&h Although we Americans tend to see ourselves as the Good Guys -- and most of us are -- far too many of us are corrupt and dishonest in our commercial dealings with others. This book reveals disturbing facts about dishonesty in the marketplace, in the entertainment media, the military, the churches, our schools and other institutions. Edited from the book jacket cover: In a successful motion picture of a couple of years ago, a TV newscaster looked at the evils in the world around him and loudly announced that he was "mad as hell" and was "not going to take it anymore!" But outside of making the announcement, he did nothing--nothing to alleviate the ills, or to help the situation. When TV humorist, actor, musician, composer and author Steve Allen views the extent to which corruption has penetrated all levels of American society, he too is "mad as hell." But in Ripoff he sets out to do something about it. In a scathing denunciation of our greed-gripped society, Allen catalogs its illnesses and offers helpful suggestions for remedial action. Steve Allen perceives almost no present limits to the tide of crime and corruption that has affected all walks of life in modern-day America. Congressmen, senators, governors, bank presidents, industry leaders--even a Vice President of the United States--have been caught with their hands in the till. The youngster who accepts cheating on a grade-school test as merely part of his education...the politician whose hand is open for a bribe...the government investigator into fraud who juggles his own expense account...the physician who "adjusts" his bill to cheat the Medicaid system...the show business agents and performers who work tax swindles as casually as they ply their trades...the businessmen who "buy" their way into successful careers...they are all here in Ripoff, and they do not make a pretty picture. In a breezy, informal style, Allen lays out the facts--from the West Point cadet cheats to the complex machinations of the computer-based Equity Funding scandal--with the deft touch that has made him a favorite on TV screens and in personal appearances for three decades. He touches all bases, from employee theft to shoplifting. With a sensitive social conscience and probing mind, he asks how so much wrongdoing came about--and what it bodes for the future. But even when Allen is most despairing, he retains his sense of humor, managing eventually to find hope and to provide answers that could lead to a less troubled tomorrow. Click here for online ordering information.
	"How To Make A Speech" by Steve Allen SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICE:  Only $11.95 plus s&h "In our busy society more and more people are called upon to speak publicly. Most of us, unfortunately, don't have a natural talent for lecturing or entertaining. This book gives dozens of practical suggestions about how to look good at the lectern and persuade others to accept your message." -- Steve Allen. Edited from the book jacket cover: If you have ever tried to make a speech without adequate preparation, you are painfully aware that it is not as easy as falling off the proverbial log. In this book, Steve Allen shares with you all the rules and tricks of the lecturer's trade acquired during his forty years at the podium. Many of us know Steve Allen as the man on TV who always makes us laugh--but he is also much in demand as a public speaker. He is active on the lecture circuit, speaking sometimes on humorous subjects but often with a seriousness of purpose on a wide range of social issues. In this engaging how-to book, he sums up his years of experience and outlines a clear, simple course of speechmaking. The neophyte as well as the experienced speaker can put many of Steve's suggestions and observations to work. Some of the topics are: - Overcoming stage fright - Writing the speech - The importance of rehearsing - How and when to employ humor - What to do if your audience knows more than you - Serving as toastmaster. Studded with examples of Steve's unique humor, this is truly a book that will entertain while teaching you How to Make a Speech. Click here for online ordering information.