1. Jay Jason was an American stand-up comedian who continuously performed in the show-business industry from 1933 to 2000.
14 Facts About Jay Jason
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Jay Jason traveled to Buffalo for amateur shows, and success in these comedy contests led him to pursue a career as an entertainer.
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Jay Jason played frequently at the Granit, Concord, Kutsher's Hotel, the Nevele, The Laurels Hotel and Country Club, The Pines Resort, Raleigh, the Overlook, the Tamarack Lodge, Stevensville, the Windsor, and Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel.
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Jay Jason's humor had self-deprecating aspects, and all subjects were grist for his comedy routines.
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Jay Jason impersonated celebrities such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jackie Mason, Jack Benny, Maurice Chevalier, Rudolph Valentino, Jimmy Stewart, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Arthur Godfrey, and Franklin Roosevelt, and he did voice-overs for cartoon characters.
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Jay Jason's jokes were often quoted in different newspapers such as the News and Courier in South Carolina, the Toledo Blade in Ohio, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Ohio, and the Miami News in Florida.
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New York has more psychiatrists than plumbers says Jay Jason, proving the city has more stuffed-up heads than toilets.
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Jay Jason performed at top night clubs across the country such as the Slate Brothers in Hollywood, the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and the Latin Quarter in New York City.
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Jay Jason entertained in other countries such as when he performed on television in Australia.
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Jay Jason opened shows for entertainers such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.
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Jay Jason was mentioned in the popular entertainer's magazine the Billboard.
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In Moore's book on comedians, he mentions that Jay Jason was one of the great comics he would watch at the Downingtown Inn, and Jay's name was mentioned in a number of other books.
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Jay Jason married Lynn Peltz in 1947, and had two children named Diana and Leonard.
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Jay Jason is doing my jokes and they're getting great laughs, and I realize, hey, I could do these jokes myself.