But we also had at that time a *regional* humor industry -- Brother Dave,
etc. -- as well as "ethnic" humorists like the Black comics, Dom DeLuise
(unless he's later), etc., which tends to get ignored in offiical histories.
Then there's Tom Lehrer, who stopped doing humor at the height of the
Vietnam War because "it wasn't funny anymore", but returned later. There's a
sense in which Mort Sahl was a regional humorist (SF Bay Area at first).
Then there's Lord Buckley who was an anti-regional humorist. (He wasn't
allowed to perform in New York City because he'd been arrested for marijuana
possession in 1943.)
Tom Condit