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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1988
Gentleman Gadfly Sahl's
Stinger Is Still Sarcastic
N
ew York — In his
heart, liberal Mort
Sahl knows he's right.
All those potshots he took
at bureaucrats, miscreants,
officials with hands in the
cookie jar when there were no
Oreos in sight, well, he must
be feeling pretty good these
days.
Because Mort Sahl, the
gentleman gadfly, the Jewish
wasp with a stinger dipped in
sarcasm, has seen his jibes
come true. The '50s Sahl Man
of satire doesn't close on
Saturday night; his act has
been teeming for 34 years.
And if he seems to fade from
sight every now and then, the
humor lingers, like the after-
math of a needle under the
skin.
Once called "the thinking
man's comedian" by Eugene
McCarthy and "the Will
Rogers of our time" by Presi-
dent Reagan, Sahl's timeless
attacks are spirited, brilliant
and at times outrageous. He
has come in from left field for
a closer look at the dugout.
What he has discovered is a
ball game with no ground
rules.
Not even the fans in the
stand are sacrosanct. Greeted
by guffaws for pungent comic
comments citing "BorkNor-
thContra," Sahl turns on the
audience, wheeling like a pit-
cher loading up with a spitter
made of acid.
"Oh, sure, that's what you
want, freedom for those who
deserve it," says a smiling
Sahl, referring to the au-
dience's smug self-satisfaction
of being the ones to determine
who is right or wrong. "If they
can only get the Constitution
through that shredder?'
He rips away. Sahl has been
feeding on satire like an
undernourishe waif since his
1953 debut at San Francisco's
Hungry i. On Broadway, his
meal is made up of politicos,
movies and almost anybody
worthy of a satirical snack.
Sahl credits the success of
Jackie Mason's one-man
show. The World According to
Me! for an environment en-
couraging comics to try their
hands and humor on the
Great White Way.
Wary of bumbling Demo-
cratic presidential can-
didates, Sahl wonders why so
many of them have aped John
Kennedy. "Is there anybody
in the Democratic Party who
Mort Sahl: He sent Vanessa Redgrave to solicit Clint Eastwood.
is not like John Kennedy?"
Pause. "Yeh. Ted Kennedy."
Sahl has a "Dear John" let-
ter for those who still con-
sider him the darling of the
left. He is just as prone to
knock them over with his
punch lines as those on the
right.
He recalls getting a call
from Jane Fonda, who wanted
to introduce him to her
friend, Vanessa Redgrave.
Redrave, who had been forced
off a program with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, sued
and won her case, citing that
her performance as a nar-
rator was cancelled because of
her controversial views,
centering on her pro-
Paletinian position.
The ardent anti-Zionist told
the. Jewish Sahl that she
"was the victim of hard-core
Jewish criminals." "Ah," he
retorted, "the violin section."
He met her solicitation of
support with "Are you
serious?" He sent her to
solicit law-and-order Clint
Eastwood, a decidely unikely
source of support for the
Liberation
Palestine
-
Organization.
"Jane Fonda was very
angry with me for doing
that," says Sahl, smiling at
the recollection.
Redgrave asked Eastwood,
mayor of Carmel, Calif., for
support of "the revolution."
"The revolution?" asked a
quizzical Eastwood of the
English actress. "Haven't you
heard? It's over and you lost."
Sahl relishes the story. "It
is possible to dislike Vanessa
Redgrave just for herself," he
says.
But Israel and Jews do not
get off the hook either. Sahl
talks about Jewish condem-
nation of Kurt Waldheim, the
alleged Nazi conspirator who
became president of Austria.
"Israel really influenced that
election in Austria," says Sahl
snidely. "They denounce him
and he wins in a landslide"
But it is the liberals — "A
liberal is someone who
believes any behavior behind
closed doors is okay as long if
it's done among three consen-
ting adults" — who seem to
bear the brunt now of Sahl's
misgivings.
Approached by Norman
Lear to contribute to Jesse
Jackson's presidential cam-
paign, Sahl kiddingly
retorted, "Jackson — is that
the black guy?"
To which, says Sahl, the
noted liberal Lear replied,
"'Ib tell you the truth, I never
noticed:'
A Reagan quip is never too
far away, however, Reagan
was talking to the prime-
minister of Japan, goes the
story, and Nakasone inform-
ed the president that he,
Reagan, could never really
understand Japanese men-
tality since the Americans
never had a Hiroshima, a ci-
ty destroyed by the enemy.
"Oh, no?" said Reagan.
"What about Detroit?"
Reagan's vice president is
not spared either. "Bush,"
says Sahl, citing the "wimp
factor," looks like the fourth
guy in any car pool."
Even a former president
feels the sting. Sahl, noting a
meeting between Jimmy
Carter and Israel's Prime
Minister Menachem Begin
after the two left office, talk-
ed of the two former world