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Total Rating: 
***
Opened: 
October 22, 2002
Ended: 
December 1, 2002
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Jyll Rosenfeld & Jon Stoll.
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
Royale Theater
Theater Address: 
242 West 45th Street
Running Time: 
2 hrs, 15 min
Genre: 
Standup Comedy
Author: 
Jackie Mason
Director: 
Jackie Mason
Review: 

To say there's nothing new here isn't exactly fair. Yes, there's stuff about Jews-versus-Gentiles in restaurants, but there's no Starbucks, no Ed Sullivan, and a just a little less Bill Clinton. About 50 percent of the material this time around deals with post-9/11 airport security, low-fat foods, and George Bush and Ariel Sharon. And if you've never seen Mason's act, your laughs are likely to be a lot louder than those of us who've been cheering on his unique, marvelous shtick since "World According to Me." The real disappointment - to be expected really - is that Mason has far more deference for the current president than he did for the last one. So he jibes lightly at George Jr.'s speaking style and mimics Shimon Peres's jowly baritone, but the zing isn't there.

It's not that Mason needs more new jokes; he needs to invest more in the jokes he tells.

Parental: 
profanity
Cast: 
Jackie Mason
Technical: 
Lighting: Traci Klainer; Sound: Christopher Cronin; SM: Don Myers; Company Mgr: Laura Janik Cronin; Press: Larry Weinberg.
Critic: 
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed: 
October 2002