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 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.
A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.
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.
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.