Mort Sahl
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 Mort Sahl facts

• 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