mort

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Try as the other contestants may, they simply can’t match Richter’s jovial expressiveness, or the easy win of having him speak a few lines in the voice of Mort, the mouse lemur in the “Madagascar” films.

From Salon

"We will miss him dearly," co-presidents Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein said in a statement.

From BBC

In a 1959 Time article, the magazine described Lehrer and fellow comedians Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl as the symbols of a new “sick” comedy.

From Los Angeles Times

A self-described “outlaw cartoonist ... outlaw writer,” Feiffer was more attuned to the darker comic style of Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce.

From Los Angeles Times

Of all the revolutionary comedians of the era such as Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Shelley Berman, Nachman wrote, “Newhart was the most Everyman of them all — nonethnic, nonabrasive, non-angst-ridden, non-you-name-it. ... His mild-mannered, quizzical nature worked like a sedative for the increasing craziness of the time.”

From Los Angeles Times