Los Angeles: American comedian Mort Sahl, considered the father of modern political satire, has died at the age of 94, The New York Times and The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The newspapers cited a friend who said that Sahl had died at his home near San Francisco. He did not specify the cause of death. Reuters could not immediately confirm the death independently.
Sahl is credited with influencing comedians such as George Carlin, Woody Allen and Jonathan Winters. He was also a friend of another comedy mold-breaker, Lenny Bruce, although his work did not include profanity like Bruce did.
His “Mort Sahl at Sunset”, released in 1955, was his first stand-up comedy album and, three years later, his Broadway show.
Morton Leon Sahl was born in Montreal on May 11, 1927, and grew up in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of Southern California, and moved to the San Francisco area in the early 1950s to try comedy. He lived in part of his car before building a following at San Francisco’s famed Hungry Eye nightclub and then hitting the street.
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