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Mort Sahl

1927 - 2021

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Morton Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born Jewish American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern comedian. He pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop. Sahl spent his early years in Los Angeles and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he made his professional stage debut at the hungry i nightclub in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mort Sahl has received more than 975,690 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Mort Sahl is the 4,438th most popular actor, the 355th most popular biography from Canada and the 106th most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 980k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mort Sahl ranks 4,438 out of 9,996. Before him are Nina Li Chi, Corbin Bleu, May Britt, Junko Takeuchi, Mark Damon, and Nigel Terry. After him are Ben McKenzie, Louise Lasser, Roy Dotrice, Richard Herd, Michael Beck, and Barbara Windsor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Mort Sahl ranks 297. Before him are Otto Stich, Eileen Ryan, Brock Peters, Roberto Suazo Córdova, Robert Guillaume, and Adrián Escudero. After him are Victor Mees, Hirotugu Akaike, David Padilla, Oskar Pastior, Patrick O'Neal, and Adolfo Suárez Rivera. Among people deceased in 2021, Mort Sahl ranks 463. Before him are Rildo da Costa Menezes, Padma Sachdev, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Lubomir Kavalek, Kurt Biedenkopf, and Fausta Morganti. After him are Rush Limbaugh, Valentin Afonin, Mauro Bellugi, Johnny Isakson, Sabine Schmitz, and Franco Marini.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mort Sahl ranks 355 out of 1,350. Before him are Lucile Watson (1879), Arthur Meighen (1874), Chief Dan George (1899), Tom Thomson (1877), Kristin Kreuk (1982), and Katherine DeMille (1911). After him are Michel Tremblay (1942), Wyndham Lewis (1882), Étienne Desmarteau (1873), Feist (1976), Kate Nelligan (1950), and Tommy Burns (1881).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Mort Sahl ranks 106. Before him are Anna Paquin (1982), Dean Butler (1956), Lucile Watson (1879), Chief Dan George (1899), Kristin Kreuk (1982), and Katherine DeMille (1911). After him are Kate Nelligan (1950), Emmanuelle Chriqui (1975), Steven Ogg (1973), Carole Laure (1948), Michael Sarrazin (1940), and Frances Bay (1919).

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