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Comedian Jackie Mason dies at 93
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July 24, 2021 at 8:49 p.m.
Actor/comedian Jackie Mason stands beside a bus displaying a sign advertising his TV show in this 1992 file photo. Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester, has died. He was 93. Mason died Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Manhattan, the celebrity lawyer Raul Felder told The New York Times. (AP Photo)
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 5 p.m. Central Time at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan after being hospitalized for over two weeks, the celebrity lawyer Raul Felder told The Associated Press.
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Stand-up who built his career out of political incorrectness found multiple generations of fans
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Jackie Mason, the stand-up comic whose career spanned several decades and became a template and poster child of sorts for Jewish self-deprecation, died Saturday at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital the age of 93. His friend, lawyer Raoul Felder, confirmed Mason’s death to the
“My humor it’s a man in a conversation, pointing things out to you,” he told the
Times in 1988. “He’s not better than you, he’s just another guy. I see life with love I’m your brother up there but if I see you make a fool out of yourself, I owe it to you to point that out to you.”
Jackie Mason, Borscht Belt Stand-Up Comedian, Dies at 93
Comic known for his Yiddish and irreverent humor was a Tony and Emmy winner
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Jackie Mason, the veteran stand-up comedian known for bringing his Jewish sensibilities and Yiddish culture and delivery straight from the Borscht Belt and into his irreverent sets, has died. He was 93.
Mason, whose death was reported by The New York Times as told by his lawyer Raoul Felder, died at a hospital in Manhattan on Saturday. No cause of death was given.
Mason was a Tony and Emmy winner famous for his one-man shows on Broadway and for bringing in a whole new generation of fans with his well-recognized voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofski, or Krusty the Clown s dad, on The Simpsons.
Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93
The 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. Author: MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer Published: 10:02 PM EDT July 24, 2021 Updated: 10:02 PM EDT July 24, 2021
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.