Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between notches in the Borscht Belt, he sold shoes at Gimbel's, pajamas at Saks and menswear at Macy's. The only item he had trouble merchandising was Jackie Mason. It was not until 1962 that he found his own reproachful voice. Steve Allen caught the act and booked him on his TV show. Later that year, Ed Sullivan granted Jackie spots on what was then the nation's most popular variety program...
...Nobuddy understends dis." The man in the Honda commercial is talking about a parking gear, but he might just as well be analyzing his own career. After two decades of anonymity, Comedian Jackie Mason is lighting up Broadway. Next month he will celebrate a year as the stand-up soloist of The World According...
...shows usually offer a variety of delights: Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg impersonated scores of different women; Victor Borge played the piano between monologues. Jackie Mason is only Jackie Mason, a hunched and tuneless figure towering some 5 ft. 4 in. above sea level and speaking with the Yiddish locutions of an immigrant who just completed a course in English. By mail. His targets are ecumenical. On Jews and Christians: "You show a gentile carrots and peas, he eats carrots and peas. You show a Jew carrots and peas: 'Wait a minute. Why are there so many carrots compared...
...Mason did. Despite his unlimited stock of foreign shrugs and intonations, the rabbi's son was born Jacob Maza in Sheboygan, Wis. He and his three brothers followed their father's profession, but, he confesses, "I didn't feel it. I wasn't dedicated." Assigned to a Weldon, N.C., synagogue, Mason gained a reputation for injecting humor into sermons. "Congregations would say to me, 'Rabbi, you should be a comedian.' I began to take their advice...
...from a nearby picnic table. Strains of the Battle Hymn of the Republic float with gentle familiarity through the heavy air. Only the fact that it is sung in Portuguese seems inappropriate. But, in fact, it is fitting because this get-together occurs some 5,000 miles below the Mason-Dixon line, just outside a southern Brazilian city called Americana...