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
you don't know what you think unless you say it.
The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.
A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.
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.
Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup?
You haven't lived until you've died in California
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
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.
Obama is running again for spite.
Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - except the drone.
New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.
The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.
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.