Mort Sahl Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mort Sahl Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Morton Lyon Sahl (born May 11, 1927) is an American comedian, actor,

and social satirist, considered the first modern stand-up comedian

since Will Rogers. 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 him 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,

George Carlin and Woody Allen. Allen credits Sahl's new style of humor

with "opening up vistas for people like me.":545Numerous politicians

became his fans, with John F. Kennedy asking him to write his jokes

for campaign speeches. After Kennedy's assassination in 1963, however,

Sahl became obsessed with the Warren Report's inaccuracies and

conclusions, and spoke about it often during his shows. This alienated

much of his audience and led to a decline in his popularity for the

remainder of the 1960s. By the 1970s, however, his shows and

popularity staged a partial comeback which continues to the present. A

biography of Sahl, Last Man Standing, by James Curtis, was released in

2017.
Mort Sahl Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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