Rabbi-turned-comedian Jackie Mason dies at 93
By Mark Kennedy
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American stand-up comedian Jackie Mason during a photocall at the Queens Theatre in London to launch his show 'The Millennium Show'. (Photo by Yui Mok - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK - Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93.
Mason died Saturday at 6 p.m. ET at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan after being hospitalized for over two weeks, the celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder told The Associated Press.