# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mort-sahl
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:01:14.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mort-sahl"
name: "Mort Sahl"
slug: "mort-sahl"
description: "Morton Lyon Sahl was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social satirist. He pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current event topics by means of improvised monologues, using only a newspaper as a prop."
tagline: "Canadian-born American comedian (1927–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mort_Sahl_-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Comedians"
  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
  name: "Comedian"
  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1927-05-11"
deathDate: "2021-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2654747392658811
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "mortsahlsays"
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    handle:    "nm0756340"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Mort Sahl"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump