Mort Sahl

Mort Sahl ( born May 11, 1927 in Montreal) was originally a native of Canada American stand-up comedian and political satirist.

Sahl went early with his parents to California and attended Belmont High School in Los Angeles. He studied at the University of Southern California urban and transport planning with the completion in 1950 and was then stationed in the U.S. Air Force in Alaska. After his return he began as a stand- up comedian in a night club in San Francisco occur. He was up in the 1960's very successful ( 1960, he even appeared on the cover of Time Magazine ) and with figures such as Ronald Reagan (still in the 1980s, he was invited to the White House by Reagan ), John F. Kennedy and Hugh Hefner friends. But the friendship did not mean that he did not Kennedy or Reagan later the object of his satire, the most anknüpfte to current events of the day and took up political issues. One of his trademarks was that he appeared with a newspaper on the stage, another that he was not wearing a suit but a sweater.

His career took a downturn when he was taken after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 increasingly by conspiracy theories (for a time he worked in the team of Jim Garrison ), which he incorporated in his comedy performances. He taught thereafter with college tours and experienced in the late 1960s and early 1970s making a comeback, but without regaining his old popularity. In 1988 he had a one-man Broadway show. Sahl stepped up to the 2000s.

His first LP At Sunset came out in 1959 without his consent (formed in 1955 with Dave Brubeck ). In 1976 he published his autobiography Heartland.

He was married from 1967 until their divorce in 1991 with the former Playboy Playmate China Lee.