Trailblazing standup comedian Mort Sahl has died at 94. He is credited with revolutionising American comedy in the 1950s with his acerbic political satire. He was described as a cross between Lenny Bruce and Bob Hope and though he never shocked with obscenities, he aimed like a ‘heat seeking missile’ on his target, who would be a public figure of any political inclination. One tribute said ‘pound-for-pound, [he was] the funniest, most innovative comedian of them all, throughout his entire career.’
One of his comments was “Washington couldn’t tell a lie. Nixon couldn’t tell the truth and Reagan couldn’t tell the difference.”
Born 11 May 1927 8.30am Montreal, Canada, he was a Sun Taurus in a creative square to Neptune in Leo, oddly enough in his communicative 3rd. He had a lucky, successful Jupiter in his career 10th in an adventurous conjunction to Uranus square a charming Venus in Gemini. Where he got his acid-edge was a ruthless and enraged Mars Pluto in Cancer in his 1st sextile Mercury and his Sun.
‘Mort’ in Latin and French means dead or death – quite an apt forename for a person with Pluto rising on the Ascendant.