Mort Sahl - Less Views than Morty Gunty and Opening a Box

"If things go well," Mort Sahl joked at the Hungry i in 1959, "we won't have to keep holding these meetings in secret!"

Today, Mort's appearances, sadly, might as well be a secret. While Bill Maher, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and others thrive telling their Trump jokes, Sahl is confined to a Mill Valley theater that has a few small rooms that might hold 50 people. This hour, streamed once a week, gets only 200 and 400 views. The shows are kept online but it doesn't seem to matter.

Consider that Morty Gunty, dead, can match this number.

Consider that some chick doing stand-up for the first time, gets well over FOUR TIMES the views for Mort Sahl.

The sad fact is that complete unknowns ranting about yesterday's football game do better than Mort Sahl.

While Mort is a nonagenarian, he's pretty much the same as he was ten years ago, rambling along and chuckling at his own punchlines, which cues the audience to laugh. He's still his own worst enemy, feuding with friends for no reason, and canceling big opportunities at the last minute just because he can (which he did to Seth Meyers last year). Still, you'd think more than a few hundred would want to tune into the streams, which are publicized through Facebook and Twitter.

Off-key singer-songwriters hoisting their camcorder footage of a Taylor Swift song or even one by Eleanor McEvoy, get bigger numbers. If somebody buys and UNBOXES AN APPLE PRODUCT in front of a camera, nearly a MILLION want to watch:

To borrow one of the more quotable Mort Sahl punchlines..."Darwin was wrong!"