{"id":606,"date":"2017-05-15T19:32:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2023-07-25T03:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T03:02:27","slug":"mort-sahl-last-man-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Mort Sahl – Last Man Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mort Sahl’s New Book Just Released!<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Available Now on amazon.com<\/span><\/p>\n

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On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl took the stage at San Francisco\u2019s hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a new generation of smart<\/span><\/span> comics <\/span>emerged\u2015Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Lenny Bruce, Bob Newhart, Dick Gregory, Woody Allen, and the Smothers Brothers, among others. He opened up jazz-inflected satire to a loose network of clubs, cut the first modern comedy album, and appeared on the cover of <\/span><\/span>Time<\/i><\/span><\/span>\u00a0surrounded by caricatures of some of his frequent targets such as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevenson, and John F. Kennedy. Through the extraordinary details of Sahl\u2019s life, author James Curtis deftly illustrates why Sahl was dubbed by Steve Allen as \u201cthe only real political philosopher we have in modern comedy.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n

Sahl came on the scene the same year Eisenhower and Nixon entered the White House, the year\u00a0Playboy<\/i>\u00a0first hit the nation\u2019s newsstands. Clad in an open collar and pullover sweater, he adopted the persona of a graduate student ruminating on current events. \u201cIt was like nothing I\u2019d ever seen,\u201d said Woody Allen, \u201cand I\u2019ve never seen anything like it after.\u201d Sahl was billed, variously, as the Nation\u2019s Conscience, America\u2019s Only Working Philosopher, and, most tellingly, the Next President of the United States. Yet he was also a satirist so savage the editors of\u00a0Time<\/i>\u00a0once dubbed him \u201cWill Rogers with fangs.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here, for the first time, is the whole story of Mort Sahl, America\u2019s iconoclastic father of modern standup comedy. Written with Sahl\u2019s full cooperation and the participation of many of his friends and contemporaries, it delves deeply into the influences that shaped him, the heady times in which he soared, and the depths to which he fell during the turbulent sixties when he took on the Warren Commission and nearly paid for it with his career<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch Mort Live Every Thursday Night at 7pm Pacific on Periscope<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

If you are on Twitter you can get the Periscope app for free and watch Mort every Thursday night. \u00a0His show is only broadcast from the Throckmorton Theater in Northern California. \u00a0He is amazingly sharp and recalls many funny incidents from his long career in show business that included writing for films, comedy gigs, writing for JFK, and working with Jim Garrison on the Kennedy Assassination, which got him black-balled from Hollywood.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Watch Mort Live Every Thursday Night at 7pm Pacific on Periscope<\/span><\/h1>\n

If you are on Twitter you can get the Periscope app for free and watch Mort every Thursday night. \u00a0His show is only broadcast from the Throckmorton Theater in Northern California. \u00a0He is amazingly sharp and recalls many funny incidents from his long career in show business that included writing for films, comedy gigs, writing for JFK, and working with Jim Garrison on the Kennedy Assassination, which got him black-balled from Hollywood.<\/span><\/p>\n

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