When my wife Nancy was 16, she listened over and over to Mort Sahl's first album until she memorized it, just as she had done with the score of My Fair Lady. Last week, we sat behind Sahl, watching him enjoy and appreciate a tribute to him by a gaggle of comedians at the Wadsworth Theater in Brentwood.
There were the original gang members: Jonathan Winters (in character as an aging baseball star); Norm Crosby (master of malapropism); and Shelley Berman...
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