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...heard from San Francisco to the Canadian border and as far west as New Zealand, and it has made such a hit with listeners that KEWB hopes to hook up with a sister station in Los Angeles to give Jackson the entire West for an audience. Comedian Mort Sahl, who has rigged up a special antenna in his backyard in Los Angeles in order to receive Jackson, calls him "the all-night psychiatrist." Make Love Now. Jackson stays in business because his audience finds the program engrossing and totally unpredictable, but he also does his best to dispense free comfort...
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Funnymen Dick Gregory, Mort Sahl, Al Capp and Jules Feiffer join the Second City group from Chicago and the Uniquecorns from Washington in a program about satire in the U.S., with comments by Dr. Bergen Evans...
...this was the American the new used as its target. They made openly on his values, his sex his leaders. It was frightening. to Mort Sahl in the middle was like listening to Radio Europe in East Berlin or singing Civil War Songs at Fort Dix, New Jersey. We all felt like memories of the underground and our laughter was based very much on a sense of conspiracy. Laughing at McCarthy in those dear gone days was like laughing at God--or worse--J. Edgar Hoover...
...Mort Sahl who can still be quite funny has never been as hilarious to me since I began to feel free to laugh at him without fearing the F.B.I. was photographing me in the act. Any against authority was a dangerous joke in those days. This was losers' school of humor. Robert little man would have it instantly. So would . In one case it was Sahl being overcome by the Government, in the case it was Mike and Elaine being overcome by sexual mores; in another case it was Lennie Bruce being overcome by everything...
...Voice, and then they found that he could sell. "Once they see you can sell," he says matter of faculty, "they don't care what you're saying." the cartoonist recognizes, thankfully, that he is less endangered by success in his medium than a night club comedian such as Sahl A live performer works with an audience immediately before him; he needs that laugh, he must have their direct approval and satisfaction. But Feiffer works for himself, alone with his materials, and must meet his own approval...