Jackie Mason, Borscht Belt Stand-Up Comedian, Dies at 93

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Jackie Mason, the famed stand-up comedian known for his bringing his Jewish sensibilities and Yiddish culture and delivery into his irreverent routines straight from the Borscht Belt, has died. He was 93.

Mason's death was reported by The New York Times as told to them by his lawyer Raoul Felder. He 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 playing the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofski, or Krusty the Clown's dad, on "The Simpsons."

Once a rabbi from Sheboygan, Wisconsin and born to a family of strict Orthodox Jews from a long line of rabbis, Mason got his start doing standup in the Catskills but managed to keep his career thriving long after the Catskills resorts closed their doors, especially through the '80s, in which in 1986 he won a Tony for his one-man show "The World According to Me."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/jackie-mason-borscht-belt-stand-up-comedian-dies-at-93/ar-AAMwn8E?ocid=uxbndlbing

[Shellback Squid]

1. ,,

[brooklynite]

2. "Jackie Mason's Pesach sermon: 'Trump the second time will be like a new Pharaoh'"

The good news is that he was able to make a succinct, rational speech. Yes, an hour and a half is succinct in my book. The bad news for the rest of the world is it seems like he can actually win again. It’s like right before Passover, the plague of the first born, and the Democrats are putting goat’s blood on their doors. Because Trump the second time will be like the new Pharaoh, bigger and better if you could believe it.

...snip...

The truth is the Jewish people have a lot to be grateful to him, and owe him at the least, a little bit of respect.

Trump reinitiated regional unity in the Middle East. The region really rallied around his long-reaching vision. Whether it’s the move of the embassy to Jerusalem, a campaign promise to which every president for decades has given lip service, and which Trump followed through with, to his leadership in getting many of the Gulf States to the side of peace with his Abraham Accords.

Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Bahrain, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates sign papers during the Abraham Accords Signing Ceremony at The White House on Tuesday, Sep. 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA)
Let’s hope Biden doesn’t muck it up, and not even remember he mucked it up. The fact he wants to get back in the Iran nuclear deal is enough to make anyone scream Dayenu!

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jackie-masons-pesach-sermon-trump-the-second-time-will-be-like-a-new-pharaoh/

[Raine]

3. Sad news 🕯️

RIP ... Jackie

[no_hypocrisy]

4. This is why I stopped liking Jackie Mason:

Comedian Jackie Mason: Obama is 'the biggest liar' and sounds 'like a maniac in an asylum' on health care

Aging conservative comic says the president 'should be locked up'

He previously slammed Obama for holding a White House Hanukkah observance 12 days early in order to fit it in with his vacation plans

Mason has faced accusations of racism in the past, following a stand-up act in which he used he Yiddish word 'schvartze' to refer to the president

Obama, he said last year, was 'completely crooked lowlife' after news reports claimed the White House leaked Israel's plan to attack Iran

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487306/Comedian-Jackie-Mason-Obama-biggest-liar-sounds-like-maniac-asylum-health-care.html?fbclid=IwAR2fzCwizNeC9JUONqLmRSwjaTtc2u7Gwh3DpebfINStbW0R2y-qdhylnso

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I never had a high opinion of him.

Calling President Obama a "schvartze" was a new low for him.

[SouthBayDem]

10. Jackie Mason is in my "separate the art from the artist" list

There is the "great at art, awful political views" category (Eric Clapton, Dave Mustaine, John Cusack) where I'd put Mason (as a millennial I'm not too familiar with his work other than what I've seen in the news).

And there is the "great at art, shitty at being human" category of stars who have committed crimes against other people (R. Kelly, Tupac Shakur, Phil Spektor).

[ShazzieB]

18. Add Bill Cosby to that second list!

And add J.K. Rowling to the first one.

I'm sure there are lots of other famous people who belong on those lists, but those are the first ones that popped into my head.

[PlanetBev]

5. I never liked him

After his attack on Obama, even less. He made me embarrassed to be Jewish. I own Trump nothing, least of all respect.

[ZonkerHarris]

7. Met him several times many years ago. The guy was a jerk and an asshole to everyone.

[SouthBayDem]

11. Jerky Mason?

[Renew Deal]

8. Haven't heard that name in a while.

Sad to hear he's gone.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. He was a Trumper and a Kahanist, and used racial slurs

against both David Dinkins and President Obama.

I'm sure that he was very talented, and many people will miss him, but I'm just not able to muster up any feelings about this.

[SergeStorms]

12. I met Jackie once....

outside of the Carnegie Deli (where else) in NYC. He was gracious enough to talk to my daughter and I for a few minutes, and in that few minutes a small crowd gathered. Always the entertainer, he put on a small impromptu act for them.

I felt guilty intruding on him like that, but later on I thought maybe he enjoyed it. This was probably 10 years ago or so, and I like to think he was happy people still recognized him and remembered his work. I'd never heard about his comments about President Obama.

He was very gracious man to my daughter and I, and I'm sorry to hear of his passing.

[UTUSN]

13. Stopped being interested in him when he mocked Ted KENNEDY's dialect. My word for him: Bitter.

As Bette DAVIS said, "You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”

[smirkymonkey]

15. Wait, HE was mocking somebody else's accent?

People in glass houses.

The only thing I really know him from was the Carl Reiner/Steve Martin film "The Jerk". He was pretty good as Mr. Hartoonian the owner of the gas station who gave Navin Johnson his first job and "apartment".

However, I had never heard the things about him that were mentioned in this thread and they are very disappointing.

Well, RIP anyway.

[Dial H For Hero]

16. I never thought he was particularly funny. Wasn't aware of his politics until now.

[Archae]

17. I didn't know he was from Sheboygan!

Where I live.