Author Profile
Jackie Mason
1931 • American • Comedian
26
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 26 quotesI didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?— Jackie Mason
Every comedian feels out an audience. As you're telling jokes, if they're not laughing at this, you change the subject.— Jackie Mason
If you wanted to hear politics, you'd go to Henry Kissinger; you wouldn't go to hear Jackie Mason. The reason I speak about politics is because I know I can get a laugh out of it.— Jackie Mason
I knew nothing about professional comedians when I became a comedian. I was a rabbi. So I had no professional comedians to learn from.— Jackie Mason