EARLY "Comic Genius" Jackie Mason Signed 8X10 Color Photo COA for Sale

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EARLY "Comic Genius" Jackie Mason Signed 8X10 Color Photo COA For Sale

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EARLY "Comic Genius" Jackie Mason Signed 8X10 Color Photo COA:
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Up for sale 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.
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Jackie Mason(bornYacov Moshe Maza; June 9, 1931) is an Americanstand-up comedianand film and television actor. He is ranked No. 63 onComedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all-time.His 1986 one-man showThe World According to Mewon aSpecial Tony Award, anOuter Critics Circle Award, anAce Award, anEmmy Award, and aGrammynomination. Later, his 1988 specialJackie Mason on Broadwaywon another Emmy Award (for outstanding writing) and another Ace Award, and his 1991voice-overof RabbiHyman KrustofskiinThe Simpsonsepisode "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 andpun, Mason's often culturally grounded humor has been described as irreverent and sometimespolitically incorrect.A critic forTimewrote that he spoke to audiences: "with theYiddishlocutions of an immigrant who just completed a course in English. By mail."Jackie Mason was bornYacov Moshe Mazaon June 9, 1931 (according to 1940 NYC census),inSheboygan,Wisconsin, the fourth and last son (and first one born in the United States) in a family of six children of strictOrthodox Jews.Mason comes from a long line ofrabbis, which included his father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather, and his great-great grandfather.His father Eli and his mother were both born inMinsk, 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 theLower East SideofManhattanin New York City, largely so that he and his siblings could pursue ayeshivaeducation, where he grew up onHenry Street,Rutgers Street, and Norfolk Street.There, his parents and their friends all spokeYiddishA 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 abusboyat resorts in theBorscht Beltin New York'sCatskill 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 aBachelor of Artsdegree in his double major of English and Sociology from theCity College of New York. At age 18 he became acantor, and at age 25]he receivedsemikhahfrom RabbiMoshe Feinsteinand was ordained arabbi(as his three brothers, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been), inLatrobe, Pennsylvania.He led congregations as their rabbi inWeldon, North Carolina, and Beth Israel Congregation in Latrobe He said that insynagogue, "I started telling more and more jokes, and after a while, a lot ofwhatwould 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."