Stand-up comic Jackie Mason, whose long career encompassed Catskills resorts, film, television, and several stints on Broadway, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93. According to Mason's friend, he died at a hospital of undisclosed causes. Born on June 9, 1928, in Sheboyan, Wisconsin, his Orthodox Jewish family relocated to NYC when he was a small child. The move put him closer to the Borscht Belt comedy circuit in upstate New York where he would become a comic sensation. Mason's style was simp...
Stand-up comic Jackie Mason, whose long career encompassed Catskills resorts, film, television, and several stints on Broadway, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93. According to Mason's friend, he died at a hospital of undisclosed causes. Born on June 9, 1928, in Sheboyan, Wisconsin, his Orthodox Jewish family relocated to NYC when he was a small child. The move put him closer to the Borscht Belt comedy circuit in upstate New York where he would become a comic sensation. Mason's style was simp...
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