This is not the first time people have said that political satire was dead.

Mort Sahl poked fun at all poiticians from the Korean War on, but Lyndon Johnson did not get the joke. It is quite possible that Sahn was warned of consequences for insulting the tyranical Johnson. Whatever the case, Sahl retired his act and did executive work in the entertainment field for years.

He did not come back to comedy until the Nixon was president.