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I was afraid no one would laugh, and I wanted to pretend I wasn’t noticing the audience. I didn’t want the audience to get the idea I was telling a joke and waiting for a laugh.

– Mort Sahl

Mort Sahl

There are talented people along the way, although very few come to mind. They’re not very daring. Part of the problem is that comedians don’t want to overthrow anything. They want to join it.

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Mort Sahl

I was a writer. I couldn’t sell anything, and the comedians were among the dumbest people I had ever met. They’d all say to me, ‘The average man won’t understand it.’ You know, they’re superior to the average man.

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Too often, these comedy guys now only care about getting on and then getting off and getting rich.

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Mort Sahl

Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.

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Mort Sahl

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

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Mort Sahl

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

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I’m a radical, and I always have been.

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Mort Sahl

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

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I was always biting the hand that fed me. It was compulsive. Kennedy was very good to me, and I attacked him as soon as he was elected. I attacked him before he was elected.

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I never met a man I didn’t like until I met Will Rogers.

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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

– Mort Sahl

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