{"id":11719,"date":"2021-10-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11719"},"modified":"2021-11-07T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:02:45","slug":"mort-sahl-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/26\/mort-sahl-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mort Sahl Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/10\/mort-sahl-dies-groundbreaking-contrarian-comedian-was-96-1234863016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mort Sahl Dies: Groundbreaking Contrarian Comedian Was 94<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/epedersen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erik Pedersen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/thomas-tapp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tom Tapp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MORT SAHL DISCUSSES LENNY BRUCE\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NrSfyzuXS2M?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mort-sahl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mort Sahl<\/a>, the acerbic comic whose pioneering style paved the way for such boundary-breaking comedians as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, died Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley, CA. He was 94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/26\/arts\/television\/mort-sahl-dead.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a>&nbsp;his death to<em>&nbsp;The New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/2021-obituaries-photo-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Showbiz &amp; Media Figures We\u2019ve Lost In 2021 \u2013 Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known for his topical social commentary, he boldly skewered politicians and others in a harsh but clean stand-up act. He hosted the first Grammy Awards in 1959, co-hosted the 1959 Academy Awards and a year later became the first comedian featured to be featured on the cover of\u00a0<em>Time\u00a0<\/em>magazine. He also guest-hosted\u00a0<em>The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson\u00a0<\/em>multiple times during the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/10\/mort-sahl-dies-groundbreaking-contrarian-comedian-was-96-1234863016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Mort Sahl Dies: Groundbreaking Contrarian Comedian Was 94 By\u00a0Erik Pedersen,\u00a0Tom Tapp Mort Sahl, the acerbic comic whose pioneering style paved the way for such boundary-breaking comedians as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, died Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley, CA. He was 94. A friend&nbsp;confirmed&nbsp;his death to&nbsp;The New York Times. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}