Description: Up for auction an EARLY?RARE! "Comic Genius" Jackie Mason Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo. This item is authenticated By Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity. ES-6240E Jackie Mason (born Yacov Moshe Maza; June 9, 1931) is an American stand-up comedian and film and television actor. He is ranked No. 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." Jackie Mason was born Yacov Moshe Maza on June 9, 1931 (according to 1940 NYC census), in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the fourth and last son (and first one born in the United States) in a family of six children of strict Orthodox Jews. Mason comes from a long line of rabbis, which included his father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather, and his great-great grandfather.His father Eli and his mother were both born in Minsk, and emigrated to the U.S. in the 1920s with the rest of Mason's family; his father died in 1959. A Jewish refugee organization helped his father find a position in Sheboygan, as it needed a rabbi. When Mason was five years old his family moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, largely so that he and his siblings could pursue a yeshiva education, where he grew up on Henry Street, Rutgers Street, and Norfolk Street. There, his parents and their friends all spoke Yiddish A 1940 U.S. census report from New York City states Jacob Maza (Jackie Mason's birthname) was born in 1928. As a teenager, Mason worked as a busboy at resorts in the Borscht Belt in New York's Catskill Mountains. He recalled: "Twenty minutes, at the Pearl Lake Hotel. I broke all the dishes. They made me a lifeguard. 'But I can't swim', I told the owner. 'Don't tell the guests', he says." In 1953 Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in his double major of English and Sociology from the City College of New York. At age 18 he became a cantor, and at age 25] he received semikhah from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and was ordained a rabbi (as his three brothers, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been), in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He led congregations as their rabbi in Weldon, North Carolina, and Beth Israel Congregation in Latrobe He said that in synagogue, "I started telling more and more jokes, and after a while, a lot of what would come to the congregation just to hear the sermons." Three years later, after his father died, he resigned from his job as a rabbi in a synagogue to become a comedian because, he says, "Somebody in the family had to make a living."
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