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 don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.
I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.
I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.
I'm a radical, and I always have been.
I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.
Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.
You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.