Groundbreaking contrarian stand-up comic Mort Sahl dies aged 94

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Groundbreaking contrarian stand-up comic Mort Sahl dies aged 94.

The stand-up comedian was best known for defining political satire for a generation of Americans in the late 1950s and 1960s.

 

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