Mort Sahl on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour - 1969

Posted for historical purposes.

[@MMMarvelous]

Love that last line --- "Are there any groups we haven't offended". Yes, Mort --- the intelligent ones.

[@jamesbeadenkopf5429]

"you're left is my right and that's what makes this country what it's rapidly becoming"

[@mrsomething2132]

Best 2 minutes of comedy on Earth. Nowadays, comics could go on for an hour and not say as much.

[@LoyalOpposition]

The best 2 minutes in comedy. My hero. I've uploaded over 200 videos on my channel.. mostly for conversation.

[@bobxyzp]

“Your left is my right and that’s what makes this country… what it’s rapidly becoming.” Prophecy

[@larrypass6720]

That line has stuck in my head ever since I saw the show in1969.

[@ed.z.]

Scary how he prophesied the future… our present in 2022.

[@dariowiter3078]

​@@ed.z. And 2023, I might add!

[@JohnGeorgeHill]

R.I.P. I met Mr. Sahl at my old favorite hangout, Charlie O's in the valley. It was a cool little jazz club that featured really good musicians. I knew he knew about as much on the Kennedy Assassination as anyone on the planet. A few years back I had read Norman Mailer's novel, Harlot's Ghost. It centered around the history of the C.I.A. and how a conspiracy about the assassination might have come about. A huge book, (the longest novel I've ever read) and it ended with Part 1. Part 2 never came out, and I had read that Norman Mailer now believed in the lone assassin theory. Which was a shock to me. So I asked Mort Sahl about it, and he immediately dove into it, saying Norman Mailer's long time confident and producer was a plant from the C.I.A. and had been working on Mr. Mailer all this time. I thought that might have been dubious at best, but I did not want to bother him with a million follow-up questions, so I let it go, but in his day, Mort Sahl was a vibrant human voice in our culture.

[@joemartines3545]

Are you familiar with Vincent Salandria?

[@JohnGeorgeHill]

@@joemartines3545 P.S. I was half-way through that Phillymag article when I wrote my reply to you, and then could not go back to it unless I subscribed. However I will read up more on it. I just wish we all knew the truth.

[@joemartines3545]

@@JohnGeorgeHill Vince was a friend of mine...

[@JohnGeorgeHill]

@@joemartines3545 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5erZnyjnJmZf5I This guy says it was definitely the mob.

[@JohnGeorgeHill]

@@joemartines3545 I will be reading more from him and about him in the future.

[@Bootrosgali]

"And that is what this country is rapidly becoming" R.I.P to a prophetic and important commentator. I hope Mort gets some views from new comers over the years. God speed.

[@jovesheerwater]

Learnt from this man when I was 18, that it was all BS. Thank you dear Mort.

[@CraigDemel]

So many applause lines!

[@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones]

So relevant today

[@marywilliams9858]

He was Canadian.

[@grandpapa2134]

That was the day an FBI file was updated by old Jay Edgar

[@iadorenewyork1]

It’s J. Edgar Hoover, isn’t it?

[@harpozzz]

mort is a god!

[@MrDuds1984]

He only Mort knew at the time that Hoover was a cross dresser

[@bobbysands6923]

and looked ravishing in that summer dress....

[@TerryUniGeezerPeterson]

The poor man's Lenny Bruce. Really poor.

[@BGTuyau]

Substitute Joe Biden for Richard Nixon [to say nothing of The FBI], and -other than that Biden's intellect couldn't shine Nixon's wingtips- the prescience / parallels 50+ years on are eerie.

[@MrRacket991]

Mort was never as funny, clever or intellectual as he thought. Waving a newspaper around doesn't help. Rush Limbaugh was the far better, smarter political satirist, personal politics aside. Mort just kind of broke new ground because he wasn't the typical comic of his time cracking mother-in-law and family jokes like Hope and George Burns.

[@randymagnum143]

Wow, so much communism.

[@bobbysands6923]

From this very small sample of work, he doesn't seem very funny. Nice guy, but not very funny. RIP...you don't have to be funny in Heaven.

[@milart12]

Not funny at all

[@arhatyellow]

He's only funny to thinking people. How sad for people like you. Ha

[@milart12]

I think a lot and I think he stinks.

[@Jesuswtf]

@@milart12 lmao 2 years later still sticking to your guns

[@Themaddprof]

@@Jesuswtf I'm a history professor and published author of nonfiction and never found Mort Sahl funny. Too dry for my tastes. When it comes to this genre, I prefer Lenny Bruce as I tend to have a preference for comedians who tell stories and do different voices and characters. But I don't knock people who disagree with me on this issue. Like food and music, tastes in comedy are subjective and personal.

[@JCJeffrey]

If you grab a Telescope and look up into the night sky, focus very hard, you might catch a glimpse of this Comedian's Genius. I will put it in layman's term, so you can understand,, it's over your head.

[@bonscott602]

Close friend of Reagan. Friend to Adlai Stevenson. Hubert Humphrey. Jfk wanted him as a writer. Saw the warren commission report as very flawed. Brilliant individual. Brilliant humorist.

[@RPMac]

Simply not funny.....I'm sure I've offended the wanna be intellectuals !