MILL VALLEY Calif. (Reuters) - Robin Williams was the only person who came backstage to see him when satirist Mort Sahl gave a show 17 years ago, and the 87-year-old comic said it marked the start of ...

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Long before Jon Stewart or Bill Maher, there was Mort Sahl. In the 1950s, while most comedians were telling jokes about in-laws, Sahl was ribbing politicians. His stream-of-consciousness style was ...

On October 26th fans of stand-up comedy mourned the death of Mort Sahl, perhaps the most influential stand-up in history, who passed away at 94. When Mort began performing in 1950, most comics were ...