Trivia

Woody Allen said of him, "With Mort Sahl, the whole face of comedy changed completely".

After sitting through three hours of a screening of director Otto Preminger's 3.5-hour film Exodus (1960), Sahl turned to Preminger and said, "Otto, let my people go".

Emceed the very first Grammy Awards show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel

Joined ROTC when he 15. He left high school, lied about his age and joined the United States Army. It took his mother 2 weeks to get him discharged.

After high school he enlisted in the Army Air Force and was stationed in Alaska. He edited the base newspaper, Poop From The Group.

Attended Compton Junior College before graduating from the University of Southern College with a degree in city management.

Father was an aspiring New York playwright before moving to Montreal & opening a tobacco shop to support his young family. He later moved the family to Los Angeles where he became a clerk for the Department of Justice.

Published his memoir "Heartland" in 1976.

(5 Feb 1997 - 19 Feb 1997) Performing "Mort Sahl's America" in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

He grew up in Los Angeles, California.