Mort Sahl, a Canadian-born American comedian who helped pioneer socio-political satire in the 1950s and '60s, died on October 26. He was 94. For a brief moment in 1958, he hosted a pilot for a local San Francisco TV jazz show called Jam Session. He wasn't the show's planned host but he agreed to sit in. And why not? The group that was featured live at t…
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