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
When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.
I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.
The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong!
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
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.