Name | Jackie Mason |
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Caption | Jackie on stage at the Hollywood Improv photo by Luciana Unsworth |
Birth name | Yacov Moshe Maza |
Birth date | June 09, 1936 |
Birth place | Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Medium | Stand-upTelevisionFilmBooksRadio |
Nationality | American |
Active | 1961–present |
Genre | Satire/Political satireObservational comedyImprovisational comedy |
Subject | American politicsInternational relationsCurrent eventsrace relationsAntisemitismJewish cultureAmerican culture |
Spouse | Jyll Rosenfeld (August 14, 1991–present) |
Children | Sheba Mason |
Notable work | The World According to Me!Hyman Krustofski in "Like Father, Like Clown", "Today I Am a Clown" and "Once Upon A Time In Springfield" |
Website | jackiemason.com |
Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York. At age 25, he was ordained a rabbi (as his three brothers, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been) in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Three years later he resigned to become a comedian.
In 1992, Mason won an Emmy Award for his voice-over of Rabbi Hyman Krustofski in The Simpsons episode "Like Father, Like Clown", making him the first guest star to win an Emmy for his role. Jackie has also appeared in The Simpsons episodes "Today I Am A Clown" and "Once Upon a Time in Springfield".
In a 2005 poll to find the Comedian's Comedian, Mason was voted among the top-50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. He was also ranked #63 in Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
His full length motion picture One Angry Man has been released in 2010 throughout the US and Canada.
Jackie has completed a new full length feature film "Jackie Goldberg Private Dick" for release in late 2011.
Jackie was a comedian at the Fieldston Hotel in Swan Lake, NY in the summer of 1955. He was let go because his act was too ahead of its time. The patrons had never been exposed to a comic who seemed to be ridiculing them. A few years later, Don Rickles came along; but, audiences had become open to this brand of humor.
Mason referred to Barack Obama as a "schvartze" during a performance in New York City on March 12, 2009. Schwarz means "black" in Yiddish and German. Republican political commentator Angela McGlowan (who is black) defended Mason's remarks and disagreed that he used a racist term.
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