Jackie Mason Quotes

Jackie Mason is an American stand-up comedian and film and television actor. He is ranked #63 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all-time.His 1986 one-man show The World According to Me won a Special Tony Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ace Award, an Emmy Award, and a Grammy nomination. Later, his 1988 special "Jackie Mason on Broadway" won another Emmy Award and another 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." Wikipedia  

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Jackie Mason Quotes

“Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.”

Quoted in [Bill, Maxwell, In gloomy times, let's try to find a sense of humor, http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/07/Columns/In_gloomy_times__let_.shtml, 2002-07-07, 2008-10-04, St. Petersburg Times]

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