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
My life needs editing.
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong!
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.
The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.
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.
There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.
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?