Mort Sahl

Legendary comedian Mort Sahl (who's still alive and kicking, by the way) used to tell this one during the Nixon administration. If a man were drowning 15-feet from shore, President Nixon would throw him a 10-foot rope. Then Henry Kissinger would go on television and declare that "the president had met him more than halfway." In his State of the Union speech, President Obama announced with great fanfare that he wanted to raise the federal minimum...

At the ripe age of either 98 (per Wikipedia) or 100 (per his faded driver's license), Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost Authority," is still a man of many words, usually multisyllabic and unintelligible. No other comedian is so eloquent in his use of vocabulary and so incoherent through his abuse of it. Mostly self-educated, a voracious reader, still spry, hip, impish and still performing, albeit not as often as during his glory days, Corey built a thriving career on...