Remembering the life and career of Jackie Mason, who engineered one of the most spectacular rebounds in stand-up comedy history. Federman writes
Jackie Mason holds up a copy of his comedy album The World According to Me at the Carnegie Deli in 1987. Photo: Robert R. McElroy/Getty Images “Did you ever notice that Gentiles on vacation are always running and jumping and leaping around? A Jew on a vacation is looking for a place to sit. A Jew sees a chair, it’s a successful vacation.”
After Steve Allen, Mason moved easily to late-night comedy on NBC’s Tonight Show, then hosted by Jack Paar. Mason did a dozen spots for Paar over the next ten months. Other variety and talk shows followed, including The Ed Sullivan Show. First, the studio audience was populated with teenagers excited to see the U.S. television debut of a new British band, the Animals . Earlier that year, The Ed Sullivan Show had triggered a cultural tidal wave when another British band, the Beatles, made their stunning U.S. TV debut. Teenage rock-and-roll fans were notoriously difficult crowds for stand-ups and comedy teams.
As powerful as Sullivan was, he couldn’t completely blackball Mason. Following the event, Mason performed on other shows but felt that his career trajectory had taken a hit. So in early 1965, Mason fought back. He sued Sullivan for libel and defamation. He claimed that he was just trying to have fun and didn’t even know that “the finger” could be construed as an obscene gesture. Mason wanted his $45,000 plus about $3 million more in damages.
In the 1970s, Mason toiled in the wilderness. He went from headlining Vegas casinos like the Aladdin to playing second-rate clubs in Miami and New Jersey. Along with most of the Borscht Belt generation of comics, he now seemed like a relic from another time, an act permanently suspended in amber.
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