Jackie Mason, a throwback to the borscht belt style of comedy that was punctuated by a thick Yiddish accent and arm-waving delivery, died Saturday in New York City.
“My humor — it’s a man in a conversation, pointing things out to you,” Mason told the Times in 1988.
Mason’s political incorrectness, combined with an innuendo-laden style of delivery, earned him a spot at No.
He used a Yiddish defamatory term for Blacks to describe then-New York Mayor David Dinkins, the website reported.
Mason, who once was a rabbi, also had a role on “The Simpsons” as the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, the father of Krusty the Clown, Variety reported.
Mason’s father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfathers had all become rabbis, along with Mason’s three older brothers, Rolling Stone reported.
Mason caught the attention of fellow comedian Jan Murray at a Los Angeles nightclub in 1960, the Times reported.
Mason became a regular on the major television variety shows of the 1960s, but he had a disastrous incident on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Oct.
Mason made his feature film debut in 1972 as the star of “The Stoolie” and later starred in “Caddyshack II” in 1988, Variety reported.
Mason was born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on June 9, 1928, to immigrants from Belarus, the Times reported, although other sources give the year as 1931.
Mason began working in the Catskills after his stint as a rabbi, writing comic monologues and appearing onstage whenever he could, the newspaper reported.
“I’ve been doing this for a hundred thousand years, but it’s like I was born last Thursday,” Mason once told the Times.
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