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- Mort_Sahl abstract "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.\"Numerous 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 what he saw as the Warren Report's inaccuracy 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.".
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- Mort_Sahl birthName "Morton Lyon Sahl".
- Mort_Sahl birthPlace Canada.
- Mort_Sahl birthPlace Montreal.
- Mort_Sahl genre Improvisational_theatre.
- Mort_Sahl genre Political_satire.
- Mort_Sahl influenced Dick_Gregory.
- Mort_Sahl influenced George_Carlin.
- Mort_Sahl influenced Jay_Leno.
- Mort_Sahl influenced Jon_Stewart.
- Mort_Sahl influenced Lenny_Bruce.
- Mort_Sahl influenced Woody_Allen.
- Mort_Sahl influencedBy H._L._Mencken.
- Mort_Sahl influencedBy Henry_Morgan_(humorist).
- Mort_Sahl influencedBy Will_Rogers.
- Mort_Sahl nationality Americans.
- Mort_Sahl spouse China_Lee.
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