Mort Sahl — Canadian Comedian born on May 11, 1927,
Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl is a Canadian-born American comedian and social satirist, considered to be the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers, a humorist in the early 20th century. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire which pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop... (wikipedia)