TAKE A WALK!!

On my daily exercise power walk, I always pass by Angelo’s restaurant on the beach in Hollywood, Florida. To my shock and great surprise, I saw comedian Jackie Mason talking and emoting to one of his smallest audiences ever, eight people who were seated at one of the outdoor tables on the Boardwalk, and they were all firing questions at him and cracking up with laughter at his replies:

Q. This may seem a bit personal but are you financially in good shape?
Jackie: I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Q. My child is good in math, Do you think I should encourage him to be an accountant?
Jackie: Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant…even if they wanted to be one?

After the conversation died down, I walked up to Jackie and shook his hand, and told him I thought the articles he wrote for the Internet were brilliant. I also said I thought the show he did from London was one his best, and I mentioned that although the English have a slightly different sense of humor and a slightly different culture, he seemed to have really reached that audience and they absolutely loved him.

Like all comedians who you meet off stage, they are never really off but rather are always on and he was no different. He looked down at the Sony CD Walkman I had on my belt and he said, ‘ “Are you are recording this?”

He had some notes written on a piece of paper in his hand and he kept looking at them while talking, so I said, ‘When you are performing on stage, you do a 2 hour show without notes; here you have to read from a piece of paper?

That’s when I think he got a little pissed off and told me to take a walk.

So I did. I was doing that anyway!