FILE – In this Feb. 4, 1991, file photo, Liza Minnelli chats with comic Jackie Mason during a visit backstage at the Neil Simon Theater in New York. Minnelli had dropped by to congratulate Mason on his new Broadway show, "Brand New." Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester whose feisty brand of standup comedy got laughs from nightclubs in the Catskills to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93. Mason died Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Manhattan, the celebrity lawyer Raul Felder told The New York Times. (AP Photo/Michael Simon, File)