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Desert Island Discs: Jackie Mason

11/03/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Jackie Mason

American comedian Jackie Mason is the latest castaway interviewed by Kirsty Young.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the American comedian Jackie Mason.

His one-man shows have been pulling in audiences for more than fifty years. Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him, he trained initially as a rabbi - and quickly acquired a reputation for being very funny. 

"The people who heard my sermons kept saying to me; 'Rabbi, why aren't you a comedian?' I said to myself, maybe I should take the hint." 

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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