Morton Lyon Sahl (born May 11, 1927) is a Canadian-born American comedian and actor. He is credited with pioneering a style of stand-up comedy that paved the way for Lenny Bruce, Nichols and May, and Dick Gregory. He also occasionally wrote jokes for speeches delivered by President John F. Kennedy.
Sahl, whose father was an FBI Administrator, was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The family soon moved to Los Angeles, California. Sahl joined the R...
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Morton Lyon Sahl (born May 11, 1927) is a Canadian-born American comedian and actor. He is credited with pioneering a style of stand-up comedy that paved the way for Lenny Bruce, Nichols and May, and Dick Gregory. He also occasionally wrote jokes for speeches delivered by President John F. Kennedy.
Sahl, whose father was an FBI Administrator, was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The family soon moved to Los Angeles, California. Sahl joined the ROTC unit at Belmont High School (Los Angeles, California) and also was on the staff of the school's newspaper, the Belmont Sentinel. Actor Richard Crenna was one of his classmates. After high school, Sahl enlisted in the United States Air Force and was stationed in Alaska. In 1950, he graduated from University of Southern California in with majors in traffic engineering and city management. He then began performing stand up comedy at Enrico Banducci's hungry i nightclub in San Francisco, where his audience sometimes threw peanuts and pennies...
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