Will Durst

Will Durst, to paraphrase the old country radio music billboard, was doing political satire before it was hip, and he’s still going strong. Part of the San Francisco contingent of comics who didn’t sell out to Hollywood for sitcoms and potato chip commercials, Durst displays the thoughtfulness of Mort Sahl without Sahl’s patina of Ward Cleaver weeniedom; he also summons the righteous anger of Lenny Bruce before he was driven cuckoo. If you don’t attribute when you rip off his insights, quoting Durst will make you sound very smart around the water cooler the next day.
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