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
The bravest thing that men do is love women.
That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
You know me, I love lost causes.
I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.
Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual.
I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.
I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
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?
We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.
I don't think fascism is dying for.
If you can't join them, beat them.