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 distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
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.
I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.
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.
This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.
I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.