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
There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry!
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.
The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.
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.