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Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl (born May 11, 1927) is 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.
Sahl spent his early years in Los Angeles and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he made his professional stage debut at the hungry i nightclub in 1953. His popularity grew quickly, and after a year at the club he traveled the country doing shows at established nightclubs, theaters and college campuses. In 1960 he became the first comedian to have a cover story written about them by Time magazine. He appeared on various television shows, played a number of film roles, and performed a one-man show on Broadway.
Television host Steve Allen claimed that Sahl was "the only real political philosopher we have in modern comedy." His social satire performances broke new ground in live entertainment, as a stand-up comic talking about the real world of politics at that time was considered "revolutionary." It inspired many later comics to become stage comedians, including Lenny Bruce, Jonathan Winters and Woody Allen. Allen credits Sahl's new style of humor with "opening up vistas for people like me."
This is Mort Sahl's March 24, 2016, performance at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, California. He appears most Thursdays at 7:00pm. Attendees pay on a donation basis. Live real-time video of his appearances is broadcast on Periscope. Mort publishes a link to the Periscope video on his Twitter feed as soon the show begins (typically around 7:05pm Pacific time).
Mort Sahl Live #1 Atlantic City 11/16/91 Premier of Mort Sahl Live on The Monitor Channel.
Mort Sahl performs an improvised stand-up routine on topics provided to him on the spot. This is Set List, Stand-Up Without a Net! Follow Mort Sahl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mortsahlsays Check out more about Mort Sahl: http://www.mortsahlofficial.com Check out more Set List: http://setlistshow.com Follow Set List On Twitter: https://twitter.com/SETLISTSHOW On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SETLISTSHOW On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/setlistshow
Comedian Mort Sahl in a 1959 TV clip. Taken from "The Big Party". Much of the humor is dated, but interesting.
Mort Sahl is a legendary comedian and member of Jim Garrison's investigation team. He discusses his relationship with President Kennedy, the events of November 22nd 1963, and the complicity of the American Left in cover-up of the assassination. Interviewed by comedian David Feldman (KPFK - North Hollywood, CA) on November 22nd, 2013.
Menachem Begin Anecdote from MORT SAHL. www.MortSahl.com.
For more related content, please visit: https://archive.org/details/@altviewstv-fanclub http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bb2790 THE CAUSE IS HUMANITY / Mort Sahl interviewed by Alan Farley. - Political satirist Mort Sahl is interviewed about show business personalities such as Bill Cosby, liberals, Gloria Steinem, Jim Garrison and the John F. Kennedy assassination, the spreading influence of the CIA, and the Pentagon's dominance of American society. - RECORDED: San Francisco Playboy Club. BROADCAST: KPFA, 30 May 1970.
Mort Sahl on The Steve Allen Show 1960
at Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, August 2013
From the 1986 cable special "Jonathan Winters On the Ledge": Mort Sahl interviews the Russian Premier (Jonathan Winters). (Apologies for the occasional audio glitches.)
The father of modern standup comedy Mort Sahl talks about the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and the unanswered questions surrounding 911. This is an excerpt from the one hour interview he did on November 22, 2013 for the David Feldman Show on Paciifica Radio.
George Carlin & Jack Burns “interview” Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl. Clip from "Burns and Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight" (1963)
Elliot Mintz presents a preview of his interview with Mort Sahl taped in 2015. it follows this clip. For more, visit elliotmintz.com. ©2016 Stendek Communications, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
This is the raw vision/sound of an interview me and Chris Murray conducted in Sydney in late 2010 for the now-defunct cable show The Movie Club. I posted the footage a few months ago because I've always liked how it showed the low-key Robin Williams behind the sometimes manic persona I'd seen in other interviews. He was a lovely guy, very happy to chat afterwards and was instrumental in arranging for me to visit his hero, Mort Sahl, in Mill Valley, California, for another interview. He will be missed.