RIP Jackie Mason

[CameronBornAndBred]

Chalk another one up to folks that I had on my "thought they were already dead" list.

Mason might actually be one to appreciate the humor of that thought. He was Don Rickles style offensive before it was as acceptable.

(I grew up thinking it was his voice behind the anteater in the shorts that were on the Pink Panther cartoon show, found out later it was some other guy doing a dead-on impression.)

93 years, and a lifetime of laughter.

[rsvman]

RIP. Funny dude, for sure.

[brevity]

I did not come up with this piece of trivia. I read it on a different board years ago.

I'm thinking of two famous entertainers. Both were born in 1928. Both spent part of their lives in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Both were ordained clergymen. Both are now deceased. One of them was Jackie Mason. Who was the other?

[bundabergdevil]

I did not come up with this piece of trivia. I read it on a different board years ago.

I'm thinking of two famous entertainers. Both were born in 1928. Both spent part of their lives in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Both were ordained clergymen. Both are now deceased. One of them was Jackie Mason. Who was the other?

I hear they might have been neighbors…

[CrazyNotCrazie]

I did not come up with this piece of trivia. I read it on a different board years ago.

I'm thinking of two famous entertainers. Both were born in 1928. Both spent part of their lives in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Both were ordained clergymen. Both are now deceased. One of them was Jackie Mason. Who was the other?

Can’t spork you but that is really great.

Also, Arnold Palmer was born in 1929 and spent much of his life in Latrobe.

Jackie Mason was a very funny guy. RIP.

[cspan37421]

Can I ask a practical question at this point?

Are we going to mention Caddyshack II?

[Deslok]

Can I ask a practical question at this point?

Are we going to mention Caddyshack II?

Much like Highlander II, we just pretend it never happened

[brevity]

I did not come up with this piece of trivia. I read it on a different board years ago.

I'm thinking of two famous entertainers. Both were born in 1928. Both spent part of their lives in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Both were ordained clergymen. Both are now deceased. One of them was Jackie Mason. Who was the other?

I hear they might have been neighbors…

Can’t spork you but that is really great.

Sounds like they know the answer:

Spoiler!

Fred Rogers, who was already working at the PBS affiliate in Pittsburgh before graduating with a divinity degree and becoming a minister. He started Mister Rogers' Neighborhood a few years later.

Jackie Mason was an ordained rabbi who became a comedian. He won an Emmy for his voiceover work in The Simpsons, where he played a rabbi who struggled to accept his son's choice to become children's comedian Krusty the Clown.