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I met Jackie Mason today. His 1986 one-man show The World According to Me won a Tony, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ace Award, an Emmy Award, and a Grammy nomination. His 1988 special “Jackie Mason on Broadway” won another Emmy and Ace Award, and h...

by mordechai March 10, 2019

I met Jackie Mason today. His 1986 one-man show The World According to Me won a Tony, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ace Award, an Emmy Award, and a Grammy nomination. His 1988 special "Jackie Mason on Broadway" won another Emmy and Ace Award, and his 1991 voice-over of Rabbi Hyman Krustofski in The Simpsons episode "Like Father, Like Clown" won Mason a third Emmy Award. He has written and performed in six one-man shows on Broadway. Known for his delivery and voice, as well as his use of innuendo and pun, Mason's often culturally grounded humor has been described as irreverent and sometimes politically incorrect. A critic for @time wrote that he spoke to audiences: "with the Yiddish locutions of an immigrant who just completed a course in English. By mail."

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