and actor
. He occasionally wrote jokes for speeches delivered by President John F. Kennedy
. He was the first comedian to record a live album
and the first to perform on college campuses. He was on the cover of Time
magazine in 1960 where they called him "the patriarch of a new school of comedians".
He was born on May 11, 1927 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
to Harry Sahl.
About his ideology, "I'm not a Liberal, I'm a Radical!"
About Liberals and Conservatives, "Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen."
About Politics & Evolution, "There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin|Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Bill Clinton|Clinton and Bob Dole|Dole. What can you draw from this? Charles Darwin|Darwin was wrong!"
About George W. Bush, "He's the face on the can. But who canned that soup?"
About Cosmetic Sugery, "There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry!"
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning 50 feet off shore, he'd throw you a 30 foot rope. Then Henry Kissinger|Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way. (1973)