Here’s a time line of Mort Sahl’s life:

• 1927 – Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• 1950 – Started trying to perform stand up around Los Angeles
• 1953 – Moved to Bay Area, remarked “I was born in San Francisco.”
• 1954 – Started performing at hungry i, a nightclub in San Francisco making $75 a week (about $720 in 2020 money)
• 1955 – Started appearing at clubs throughout the country, including the Black Orchid and Mister Kelly’s in Chicago, the Crescendo in Los Angeles, and the Village Vanguard and the Blue Angel in New York City.
• 1963 – Following Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Sahl’s interest in who was responsible was so great that he became a deputized member of District Attorney of New Orleans Jim Garrison’s team to investigate the assassination.
• 1970 – By the 1970s the rising tide of counterculture eventually fueled Sahl’s partial comeback as a veteran comedian, and he was included along with the new comedians breaking into the field, such as George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, and Richard Pryor.
• 1988 – Sahl was back in New York City and performed a one-man Off-Broadway show, Mort Sahl’s America, which, despite getting good reviews from critics was not a box office success.
• If you have time, you should read more about this incredible human being
  on his
  Wikipedia entry.