Mort Sahl at Sunset
Taped in 1955, Mort Sahl at Sunset was released after Mort Sahl had gained national renown three years later. Sahl’s conversational style relied on an improvisational approach similar to that of a jazz musician. “I never found you could write the act,” he told an interviewer. “You can’t rehearse the audience’s responses. You adjust to them every night.” Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), believed “Sahl’s popularity is a sign of a yearning for youth, irreverence, trenchancy, satire, a clean break with the past.”
Taped in 1955, <em>Mort Sahl at Sunset</em> was released after Mort Sahl had gained national renown three years later. Sahl’s conversational style relied on an improvisational approach similar to that of a jazz musician. “I never found you could write the act,” he told an interviewer. “You can’t rehearse the audience’s responses. You adjust to them every night.” Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), believed “Sahl’s popularity is a sign of a yearning for youth, irreverence, trenchancy, satire, a clean break with the past.”