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
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.
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.
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.
I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.
When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.