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
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.
Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.
A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup?
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.
You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.