[Link] The Rise and Fall of the Comedian Who Revolutionized Stand-Up

Read: 6/12/2021 slate.com

Mort Sahl, who died on Tuesday at 94, may be unknown to most people who are younger than half that age, but in his prime in the 1950s, he sparked a revolution in stand-up comedy that persists to this day.

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