MY FAVORITE JOKES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700160013-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 26, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Mort ' a dark, fiercely in-
cisive young mar, T07777-known for making
serious jokes about politics and world affairs. A
so call reaik ,c4ntetin Sahl,started out at
unstrv I nIQ c u :n an Francisco at $5
a week, soon? caught on, and is currently re-
garded as one of the leading tbliical monologists
in the country. He was born in Montreal in
192 7, raised in Los Angeles, and graduated from
the University of Southern California in 1950.
He appears in smart supper clubs throughout
the nation garbed in collegiate sweater and open-
collar shirt, with a rolled-up newspaper his only
,prop. Here are some of SahI's favorite lines:
I'M BACK IN HOLLYWOOD where two people marry seem
whether anyone cares or nl.
jail if he were litician.
I HEARD AN interesting definition of the New York
A friend of mine calls it - - the official leak of the State
AT,-EIX(_?TIOPT TIME the ''important question was not who
,,was, going to be the next President. It was whether we'd be
around to vote.
A JAZZ RooM is a night spot where the house trio is no
longer addicted to Cole Porter.
THE BACKBONE OF TELEVISION is hope, the "something-
might-happen"-philosophy. Nine-thirty was dull. Right)'
Right. Well,' maybe' 10 will be better. It's more than faith
in the future-it's almost theology.
PEOPLE ACCUSE ME of being an intellectual. It is inter-
? esting that in the seven years I was at the University of
California, no one called me that.
TILE MANIA for mathematics has even spread to the restau-
rant business. You go into a cubicle that features 96
sandwiches. You choose bacon and tomato. "Order by num-
ber," the waiter commands you, so upon consulting the menu
you say, "4 " Whereupon the waiter consults the menu
and asks, " is 42? ... Oh, yes, bacon and tomato."
COFFEE f OUSE,JL a place where people drink coffee
wait for the beat generation to come in ... You can tell
#7's a real coffee house because if it is, there will be a
lengthy calendar of entertainment on the wall-everything
from poetry and jazz to bomb tests.
SAl-IL'S OBSERVATIONS:
The H-bomb: There's no appreciable increase in radio-
activity, but don't plan a large family.
Cape Can role Disneyland East.
Soci edicine: A dangerous trend toward health.
ere's no use discussing what you can't document.
Psychoanalyst - Psychoanalysts aren't like other doctors.
If you're not relating to them, they'll gladly refer you to
another doctor. They call this rehabilitation referral motiva-
tion therapy. We call it fee-splitting.
- Dogs: My dog is affectionate and brings the newspaper in,
his mouth, but the Russian dogs are all engineers.
Holidays: The new national holiday is Beat Wednesday,
when all the people in coffee houses go to work for one day.
PRISON as opposed to life: knowing
THE ATTRACTION Q
when you're getting out.
THE u:s.A," has two admitted s ies-Nathen__Hale, and
Panels Powers. ut t ere. s a s Ig fferencc in the mo-.
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wo men When Hale was caught, he uttered
ality4 " se
hese immortal words: "I regret that I have but one life to
ive for my country,:" But Powers is cut out of different
cloth. When his U-2 was forced down, he said, "This
shatters all my plans." ^
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