There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
He was ahead of his times in the 50s! I have a ton of Mort Sahl videos and he accurately predicts everything. Even RFK's assassination! Of course, because he said it first, he was blacklisted and shunned, and when it was confirmed, no one apologized and brought him to the fore-front, except for a few powerful people (like the President).
I love the little nuances of genius that you find in Mort's work, like the comment he made when Alexander Haig said to him that he thought the collapse of the USSR was a trick by the communists and Mort essentially said if that's so, it was very elaborate.
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
I miss Lennie Bruce too, as well George Carlin, Robin Williams and Bill Hicks ... Great comic ... so smart ... I had no idea Mort continued working into the 90s (or later). He was so entrenched in investigating the murder of John Kennedy ... he just dropped of television at that time. Good to see and hear him ... he is brilliant.
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
@Ryan Wiley Dude, I worked on Hicks' "Arizona Bay" album, considered Lenny's friend Shelley Berman a dear friend and mentor as well, was loosely involved with Bruce's producer John Magnuson on a planned Hicks biopic, and even have (incredibly thin and vague) connections to Carlin's daughter, so I was hoping I could get you to rent a crane to help me get *my* cred onto the bus -- cuz I'm dead broke!
Robin Williams Mort Sahl Bill Hicks Richard Pryor Lenny Bruce Dave Chappelle Jim Varney George Carlin Dudley Moore Norm MacDonald Johnny Carson. The GOATs
Mort Sahl. Godfrey Cambridge. Lenny Bruce. Gore Vidal. Dick Gregory. Muhammad Ali. Even William F. Buckley from another angle. There is a type of satirist and humorist and social commentator personality missing from the public forum in the USA nowadays.
I just wish that WC Fields, like Mae West, could had lived into the latter half of the 20th century so that he could've gone around muttering "Godfrey Cambridge!" under his breath...
I love Mort Sahl's observations. I would tune in every night if he had made enough shows to run in syndication on a typical cable network. But the quotes attributed to George Bernard Shaw & Sigmund Freud don't exist. The Freud quote is a variation of a Shakespearean quote, and GBS never said anything remotely close to what Sahl claims. I'm guessing he (or his writers if he had any) made up something that sounded clever & he went with it back in 1991 without the benefit of fact-checking that the web provides now, but they were cool quotes indeed even though fictitious.
Degeneration and decay. There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
Great show -- oh, maybe not Sahl's absolute best (his late-'50s/early-'60s LPs are mindblowing) but with flashes of his usual genius. Like: "I'm nostalgic for capitalism -- the communists say that, too." With Sahl, it is the asides and the throwaway lines that often provide the biggest laughs (and greatest insights). One thing I found especially interesting: Elsewhere on this site there is a snippet from a mid-sixties variety show -- Hollywood Palace, I think, introduced by Gene Barry -- in which Sahl does his chalkboard analysis of the left, middle and right wings. And here he is, doing the same bit 25 years later. Only the names have been changed.
I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
Ah, Mort seems to forget what happened to Gregory Peck’s character in 12 O’Clock High: the character became catatonic with fear, and had to sit out a mission.
@@tomcarl8021 Were you referring to the Liberal News Monopoly that allowed Richard Nixon to extend and elongate the Vietnam War to ensure his election victory?
@@ponchocervantes He was elected DESPITE the liberal news monopoly. I find it fascinating that people like you can see the bias of Fox news, but not the liberal bias of CNN, NYTimes, PBS, NBC, etc. It's dumbfounding. Or is it that you are, in fact, deep down, an authoritarian? Maybe you hate Fox because they represent a different point of view. Because if that is true, than you have no right thinking of yourself as a liberal-minded person.
Why don't you compare this show to Carlin's show? Go watch Mort's actual stand-up. I love George, but even he would tell you Mort was the best (go back and listen to his interviews).. Mort not only mentored George, but he also put him on national TV for the first time when he was hosting (and possibly replacing Jack Paar) The Tonight Show.
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
![What's My Line? - Mort Sahl; Harry Belafonte [panel] (Jun 11, 1961)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_e_GMr2qDuI/mqdefault.jpg)
RIP Mort you were great
Mort had great hair.
He was always ahead of the times. RIP. Have loved him since I was 14.
I was thinking the same thing, I was thinking how much Further comedy would be today if Mort had not been black listed.
A Genius, Mort Sahl.
Mort Sahl is the best!
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
this is SO GOOD and really kind of groundbreaking for the time
His earlier stuff is sharper IMO. But still great here
He was ahead of his times in the 50s! I have a ton of Mort Sahl videos and he accurately predicts everything. Even RFK's assassination! Of course, because he said it first, he was blacklisted and shunned, and when it was confirmed, no one apologized and brought him to the fore-front, except for a few powerful people (like the President).
Love this. Things haven't changed.
28:00 Movies are the last literature. It lets you document. Most people don't read.
morts the best!
brilliant fella.
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year.
I love the little nuances of genius that you find in Mort's work, like the comment he made when Alexander Haig said to him that he thought the collapse of the USSR was a trick by the communists and Mort essentially said if that's so, it was very elaborate.
there is nothing about sahl.....that is genius...
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
@@LoyalOpposition 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Mort is still going strong on periscope. 😊
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year.
Politics section should be shown to children. Best education they could get.
I miss Lennie Bruce too, as well George Carlin, Robin Williams and Bill Hicks ... Great comic ... so smart ... I had no idea Mort continued working into the 90s (or later). He was so entrenched in investigating the murder of John Kennedy ... he just dropped of television at that time. Good to see and hear him ... he is brilliant.
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
@Ryan Wiley Dude, I worked on Hicks' "Arizona Bay" album, considered Lenny's friend Shelley Berman a dear friend and mentor as well, was loosely involved with Bruce's producer John Magnuson on a planned Hicks biopic, and even have (incredibly thin and vague) connections to Carlin's daughter, so I was hoping I could get you to rent a crane to help me get *my* cred onto the bus -- cuz I'm dead broke!
Robin Williams Mort Sahl Bill Hicks Richard Pryor Lenny Bruce Dave Chappelle Jim Varney George Carlin Dudley Moore Norm MacDonald Johnny Carson. The GOATs
(in this order) Mort Sahl, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Dick Gregory
Mort Sahl. Godfrey Cambridge. Lenny Bruce. Gore Vidal. Dick Gregory. Muhammad Ali. Even
William F. Buckley from another angle. There is a type of satirist and humorist and social commentator personality missing from the public forum in the USA nowadays.
I just wish that WC Fields, like Mae West, could had lived into the latter half of the 20th
century so that he could've gone around muttering "Godfrey Cambridge!" under his breath...
Any news on the Mort Sahl project??
R.I.P 1927-2021
I love Mort Sahl's observations. I would tune in every night if he had made enough shows to run in syndication on a typical cable network. But the quotes attributed to George Bernard Shaw & Sigmund Freud don't exist. The Freud quote is a variation of a Shakespearean quote, and GBS never said anything remotely close to what Sahl claims. I'm guessing he (or his writers if he had any) made up something that sounded clever & he went with it back in 1991 without the benefit of fact-checking that the web provides now, but they were cool quotes indeed even though fictitious.
SO true, but luckily there are a lot of new videos on Mort Sahl on TH-cam
“Actual, not Factual”
@@actualnotfactual WTF are you talking about?
And from Mort we have Colbert and the Daily Show.interesting.
Degeneration and decay. There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
@@LoyalOpposition seems a bit drastic?
@@wunderdoggy what exactly is a bit drastic?
@@LoyalOpposition to Fire the guy. Come on. We all gotta make a livin.
I've never thought Colbert was half as brilliant as he thinks he is .John Stewart on the other hand,smart and funny
RIP Mort so far ahead of his time but still laughing about it. Note: Trump's sign didn't fall off the roof, it jumped.
Trump's been a joke for a long time. Just started getting taken seriously by people with short memories apparently
Great show -- oh, maybe not Sahl's absolute best (his late-'50s/early-'60s LPs are mindblowing) but with flashes of his usual genius. Like: "I'm nostalgic for capitalism -- the communists say that, too." With Sahl, it is the asides and the throwaway lines that often provide the biggest laughs (and greatest insights). One thing I found especially interesting: Elsewhere on this site there is a snippet from a mid-sixties variety show -- Hollywood Palace, I think, introduced by Gene Barry -- in which Sahl does his chalkboard analysis of the left, middle and right wings. And here he is, doing the same bit 25 years later. Only the names have been changed.
I watched that 60s clip right before seeing this one, awesome
Right. His digressions, stream of consciousness, free association were always gold. There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year.
1:28 he mentions Trump!
I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
prophetic comic
Ah, Mort seems to forget what happened to Gregory Peck’s character in 12 O’Clock High: the character became catatonic with fear, and had to sit out a mission.
Would love to see how Mort would do his black board chart L, SD, R today with all the gender alphabet crapola
He might not have used a chart, but I have a hundred Mort Sahl stand-up shows from 2015-2020 (when COVID shut down all the theatres)
6:15 Corporate World Solve Gang Problem
14:01 Politics chart
Trying to make the Monitor look hip toward the end of Monitor television era...he couldn't save it.
RIP
Mort Talks! Way before Tes
Ted
Ah, the days before Fox News…
Yeah, the days when the left had a total monopoly on news. I can see why you long for those days.
@@tomcarl8021 Were you referring to the Liberal News Monopoly that allowed Richard Nixon to extend and elongate the Vietnam War to ensure his election victory?
@@ponchocervantes Are you saying The New York Times, Washington Post, and all the news networks were Nixon supporters?
@@tomcarl8021 No, I was asking how he got away with it when there was a vast Liberal Media Conspiracy ravaging the mind and soul of America…
@@ponchocervantes He was elected DESPITE the liberal news monopoly.
I find it fascinating that people like you can see the bias of Fox news, but not the liberal bias of CNN, NYTimes, PBS, NBC, etc.
It's dumbfounding.
Or is it that you are, in fact, deep down, an authoritarian? Maybe you hate Fox because they represent a different point of view. Because if that is true, than you have no right thinking of yourself as a liberal-minded person.
Why can't you people just enjoy the comedy. Get a fricking life and get your noses so far out of the air---geesh--pathetic.
😂
Joe biden 18:17
Not horrible but Carlin makes this guy wait for an ocasional laugh while Carlin is a laugh factory
Why don't you compare this show to Carlin's show? Go watch Mort's actual stand-up. I love George, but even he would tell you Mort was the best (go back and listen to his interviews).. Mort not only mentored George, but he also put him on national TV for the first time when he was hosting (and possibly replacing Jack Paar) The Tonight Show.
I miss you Lenny Bruce... Mort could have used you. Or maybe not.
There's been a barrage of TH-cam uploads in the last year. I saw him 4 months ago live, and he had the best Trump joke.. He wondered aloud, "I wonder how Trump would have handled Hitler?..... "I'd FIRE HIM!" -- he brought the house down!
@@LoyalOppositionTrump jokes have been beaten to death but if it's from Mort Sohl, I say 'give us excess.'
@@RyanCFoster I agree 100%
Funny? I don’t understand his humor.
You are not alone
More of a social humorist,than a comedian.you know,like Mark Twain was at times.i'm sure there's a Three Stooges Channel on TH-cam for you.
Get an education
He's about as funny as hemorrhoids.
Your too stupid to find this funny
Only to humorless bastards like yourself. Read a book.
I'm sure Mort's vocabulary is over your head.
Over rated as a "comic".
boring