FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug 28, 2002, file photo, comic Jackie Mason addresses the media at Zanie's comedy club in Chicago about the club's decision to cancel comic Ray Hanania's appearance. Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester whose feisty brand of standup comedy got laughs from nightclubs in the Catskills to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93. Mason died Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Manhattan, the celebrity lawyer Raul Felder told The New York Times.
The irascible Mason was known for his sharp wit and piercing social commentary, often about being Jewish, men and women and his own inadequacies. His typical style was amused outrage. “A person has to feel emotionally barren or empty or frustrated in order to become a comedian,” he told The Associated Press in 1987. “I don’t think people who feel comfortable or happy are motivated to become comedians. You’re searching for something and you’re willing to pay a high price to get that attention.”
Mason’s act even carried him to Broadway, where he put on several one-man shows, including “Freshly Squeezed” in 2005, “Love Thy Neighbor” in 1996 and “The World According to Me” in 1988, for which he received a special Tony Award. “I very rarely write anything down. I just think about life a lot and try to put it into phrases that will get a joke,” he said. “I never do a joke that has a point that I don’t believe in. To me, the message and the joke is the same.”
rip
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RIP
He used to be a riot !! RIP.
RadioFreeTom I’m sorry to hear that. He was funny in his day.
RIP Jackie 😞
Holbornlolz Approached by a woman in the street who said 100 dollars to sleep with me? I wasn't tired but 100 dollars is a 100 dollars?
The voice of the ardvark on pink panther. Sad day MoustacheClubUS
AMERICAN allegedly a comedian, he never made me laugh..
Holbornlolz Jackie Mason has left the stage. RIP
I used to be so self-conscious that when I attended a football game, every time the players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.” May his memory be a blessing.
R.I.P. Born Yacov Moshe Maza, he, like all immigrants had identity issues. His were aired on Fox's 'The Simpsons', (Like Father, like Clown). A strict Orthodox father made him often lash out for being a Minsk refugee & 'hating the little bit of Hebrew schvartze in him'. R.I.P.
Saw him at the Liverpool Philharmonic years ago. He said, ‘You’ve got some beautiful buildings here….Next to every one of them is a shit hole!’ Brilliant comedian. RIP Jackie Mason.
Met him at The Lowry Hotel, Manchester. Very approachable and funny guy! RIP Jackie!
You can't please everyone. I have a girlfriend. I think she's the most wonderful person in the world. That's to me. But to my wife.....
BDE. Loved him!! Z”L.
Very very funny self-desparaging guy. Thanks for the laughs Jackie. RIP Sir.
Never_Again2020 😢
tvlive Very sad to hear
In NYC, Remembering his racial attack on David Dinkins ...
RadioFreeTom People like Jackie Mason and George Burns were a rarity in comedy. They 'thought funny', unlike others such as Bob Hope, who needed jokes written for him to be funny. The former will always be superior. Jackie Mason was a diamond in the rough!
Back in the day, he was one of my favourite stand up comedians. First saw him when I was a kid on the EdSullivan TV show. JackieMason was outrageously funny. Unique. Right mister!🤣 RIPJackieMason
RadioFreeTom Didnt realize he was even still alive
KennedyTwits Thanks. One of those 'other things' was calling David Dinkins (and later Barack Obama) a 'fancy schvartze (yiddish for nigger) with a moustache' in case you forgot JackieMason RIPJackieMason
One of the funniest of all time
RadioFreeTom I loved the borscht-belt comedians...Henny Youngman, Robert Klein, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Allan Sherman, Jonathan Winters End of an era, the young ones will likely never learn about and appreciate
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I saw him live at a taping of Letterman. He was vile. His off camera comments were awful. Terrible misogynistic, racist tropes. He was booed loudly.
Jackie Mason 'Luxury Apartments' on The Ed Sullivan Show He was too witty for most audiences 👋😀😂
RIP
Honestly, I didn’t know he was still “around.”
I saw his show on Broadway. Very talented and funny
RIP
morgfair A familiar face on the talk shows in the 60's through the 80's RIP🙏
Rest in peace Jackie Mason.
Damn, I thought that was Jerry Jones
BDE
Rest peacefully funny man
Oh, Rest In Peace. 🙏❤️😪
Sad
Rest In Peace Jackie
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