When stand-up comedy tackled foreign affairs

The World

Host Marco Werman remembers comedian Mort Sahl who, improbably, managed to walk on stage in the 1960s and crack wise about US foreign policy on China, or Nixon’s visit to the USSR. Werman offers a couple of examples.

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