Word: sahl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asocial Satirist Mort Sahl, a disciple of Birth-Control Advocate Sir Julian Huxley ("He's a swinger; every time I read him, I say, 'You're right, you're right' "), had a population problem of his own. Whacked with a paternity suit by Costume Designer Patricia Manley, who in July bore a son she named Adam Matthew Sahl, the 34-year-old comedian equably announced, "I'm not admitting or denying anything. Let the court decide." Responded Miss Manley, reminiscing about the European tour she says she made with Sahl last fall: "Then...
...SPECIALTIES: Chicago's much-touted Second City improvisational group-where Comedians Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May all began their careers-will bring a new revue to Broadway (Sept. 26). Comedian Mort Sahl is this season's man behind the Golden Theater's 9 o'clock curtain (Dec. 26); and French Actor-Singer Yves Montana" will do a one-man soiree full of songs...
Wandering about town for a week before his broadcast, Sahl ritually shopped for his daily toy (a $25 Mont Blanc pen, a $5,000 E-type Jaguar), once went out at 3 a.m. into the grey vacuum of the London night just to have a look at the outsized eagle atop the new U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square. Then, taping his show before an audience full of political rebels and comedians (Lord Boothby, Peter Sellers), Sahl warmed them up with a note on his visit to the House of Commons ("I thought the debates were a little mannered...
...Then Sahl claimed that he had once taught college math, and, as a blackboard illustration of the differences between the exact and inexact sciences, "I drew a woman on a couch, and I explained to the class that in mathematics you moved across the couch and got the girl. In philosophy you never reached her; and in psychology, you discovered she wasn't the right girl for you anyway...
...Sahl, he discovered that he was not for Britain. Telly viewers thought him too mild and too American. One critic complained that Sahl had not even made fun of cricket or British pubs-obviously two unforgivable omissions...