Jackie Mason's Laughing Room Only

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The woman behind me at Jackie Mason's Laughing Room Only thought the comedian's venture into revuesical territory was a laugh a minute. No, make that a laugh every 10 or 15 seconds: Almost from start to finish, she gave the show the best kind of on-site rave review.

When Mason sat at a piano and mimed playing, then pulled a candelabrum out of nowhere and set it atop the spinet a la Liberace, the lady giggled. When he asked if there were any Gentiles in the audience, got scattered applause from the balcony and then said, "The cheap seats," the lady squealed. When he made fun of people who pretend to love opera but who, when asked what an opera they've seen was about, say that "It's about th[...]