“Hello, Hello Remember Me”?

Dee-Dee Diamond
2 min readDec 11, 2024

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Jackie Mason, … Thanks for the laughs. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🧡

He was funny looking, with a funny accent.

(This Brooklyn gal has the gall to call his accent funny). 😏 LOL!

Nostalgia: I found an old photo of my dear friend, Lou-Lou, (accidently), while searching for something else… in my messy desk drawer. It was taken years ago. Suddenly a long-lost memory flashed.

Jackie Mason had good taste!

Louise attracted Jackie Mason’s eye. He became obsessed with her. She was a cutie-pie who came to visit us at Bath & Tennis Resort one Summer, circa 1980’s. (That was a New York resort in Westhampton Beach) where he, too was a guest.

He kept finding her in the cocktail lounge or at the pool area…even on the beach.

She was a magnet for him, but she was not at all attracted to him. 😐

We all knew of him as a minor Borscht -belt comedian, or just another character slumming about Manhattan, where we lived.

Who could predict that little Jackie Mason would become a very successful comedian! 😮

The time came when his name on a Marquee would fill venues, in the USA, and internationally.

Broadway featured him in a sold-out one man show that ran & ran… Carnagie Hall, too.

I remembered my husband & I, invited tourist customers, of ours to his show.

The 6 of us, along with the audience laughed… until we cried. 😂🤣

His interaction with the audience, was hysterical…so personal, we all became part of his act.

Jackie became a frequent guest on The Ed Sullivan TV Show, Johnny Carson’s, etc.

When Hollywood called… he & his friend, Rodney Dangerfield finally “Got Respect”!

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Dee-Dee Diamond
Dee-Dee Diamond

Written by Dee-Dee Diamond

Born & raised in Brooklyn, 80 years, ago. Interviewed by The Brooklyn Historical Society. I published a funny book called” First Stop Brooklyn” it's on Amazon.

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