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
Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.
There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.
I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?
Obama said he went to Libya because of his conscience. Did anyone ever wrestle with his conscience and lose?
Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.
I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.
Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with a newspaper and pretend I’m an intellectual making fun of the yokels running the government.
If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.
I found people looked better when they laughed
I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.