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"The World According to Me" Jackie Mason Hand Signed Playbill Todd Mueller COA
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Up for auction"The World According to Me" Jackie Mason Hand Signed Playbill.
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Jackie Mason
(born
Yacov Moshe Maza
; June 9, 1928)
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 (for outstanding writing) 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."