Word: sahl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Comedian Mort Sahl, never slow to satirize, also has an album that he calls Sing a Song of Watergate . . . Apocryphal...
...Titanic only to have it sink again, but he is still an alternative for those weary of Johnny Carson. Although some nights of the comedy week were mind-numbing in their amateurishness, others, like those given over to a humorous look at the news, with such performers as Mort Sahl and Marian Mercer, were as funny as the early Laugh...
...satire of the 1970's reflects the disillusionment of the last decade; it transcends the congenial buffoonery which has left Meader already forgotten. The success of these works inevitably leaves us to ponder the price in blood we have paid to achieve them. Mort Sahl, in 1968, summed up a feeling with which de Antonio, Vidal and Roth would assuredly agree. It would be easy for the satirists to make fun of a President Nixon, he said, "but please don't cast your votes for our sake...
Honeymooning with Bride China Lee, 28, a onetime Bunny trainer, Stand-Up Satirist Mort Sahl, 43, invited the press to his Playboy Club Apartments penthouse in London and let fly. Mort's missiles zapped, among others: President Nixon ("If you were drowning 20 feet offshore, he'd throw you an eleven-foot rope and point out he was meeting you more than halfway"); Movie Stars Dustin Hoffman, Elliott Gould and Richard Benjamin ("If any of those guys had been my roommate in college I couldn't have gotten him a date"); his host, Playboy Hugh Hefner...
Married. Mort Sahl, 43, nightclub and TV comic, master of the political potshot; and China Lee, 28, Playboy playmate (August 1964) and Sahl's longtime girl friend; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills...