Mort Sahl
Mort Sahl
Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahlis a Canadian-born American comedian and social satirist, considered by filmmaker Robert B. Weide to be the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers, a humorist in the early 20th century. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire which pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth11 May 1927
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.
Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?
Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry!
I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!
If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.
Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup?
Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.
I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?
Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.