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Article: He never stops Jackie Mason needs to 'be funny every second'.(Time Out!)(On the town)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2004
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Byline: Laura Stewart Daily Herald Staff Writer
Interviewing 72-year-old comedian Jackie Mason on the telephone is like taking a roller coaster ride with one hand clutching a pen, and the other hand clutching the phone's receiver.
There is a brief hello, then zoooomm ... we're off at breakneck speed, as the Tony Award-winning comic launches into his thoughts on comedy, life and the world at large before I can get even one question uttered.
Mason moves from one subject to the next, seemingly not stopping to ... well ... breathe.
"It's an urgent matter to me to be funny every second," Mason said. "I want to be as funny as I possibly ...