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
Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.
I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.
You know me, I love lost causes.
You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.
If you can't join them, beat them.
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
You haven't lived until you've died in California
This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.
In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.