Bush, he observed: "He's born again, you know.
Which would raise the inevitable question: If you were given the unusual opportunity to be born again, why would you come back as George Bush?".
WATCH | Sahl performs on CBC-TV's Parade in 1959:.A new generation of comedians, including Bill Cosby, George Carlin and the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, was inspired by Sahl."I don't have the image of myself as a comedian," Sahl himself said.Fearing he would seem to be joining the establishment, Sahl cracked: "We've just lost the college crowd; all across the country they're yelling, 'Sellout!"'.
In the 1980s he frequently ridiculed his friend Reagan, but he said the president was never offended.Sahl thought so highly of Kennedy, however, that he even wrote jokes for him on the campaign trail. .When Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Sahl was devastated and the tragedy foreshadowed a decline in the comedian's fortunes that lasted for years.