Talk:Jay Jason

Very interesting. I like the jokes. Mark Perelman

This was added by Jaytribute516: I have now provided the actual letter from one of his agents: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qJJUQmNjPSI/TxQyptkbaUE/AAAAAAAAAHQ/M1Bybr9Ejz0/s144-c/January162012.jpg “Your performance Wednesday evening at the Pinegrove Golf & Country Club was outstanding. You were the hit of the season…Once again thank you. You made me look very good.” --Jaytribute516 14:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

This was added by Jaytribute516: In a May 20, 1950 Columbus Star newspaper article by Herb Christopher titled: “Life just a gag to Jay Jason’s family; Jay’s the straight man.” The reporter mentions that “Jay Jason, the current Palm Garden Headliner…As a matter of fact, Jay, his pretty brunette wife, Lynn; Dianne and year-old Lennie, manage to settle down in most of the cities the comic works. Anything under four weeks as an engagement seems like a one-night-stand. One appearance ran into 70 weeks.” And later: “Because Jason becomes a community fixture he finds many calls for guest appearances, benefit performances. Local television guest shows also come all too easy, calling Jason from his own T-V and where he monitors many of the better comics. Little Dianne, who had not been much of a video fan, was converted the first time she saw ‘Daddy’ on the screen at home. When Lennie, too, is watching the screen but still finds most satisfaction in reaching for the volume control just when Berle is coming up with a punch line Jason had spilled some seconds before.” And later: “His wallop-packing entertainment is a matter of timing. Similarly, the varied activities, the full home life that Jason manages in a business that all too often has to put these things into the background, show his full use of his time. ‘There is no business like show business,’ Jason says. And to fit the Jason story, this rising star seems to have made some personal improvements, upon this exacting, self-sacrificing profession.” --Jaytribute516 14:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute516 tried to make it easier to read this article. In it, the reporter for the Comic's Comic provides a case that Jay Jason had both a long and distinguished career in the Catskills as well as other places. He was a full time comic for over 65 years, and was well known in his entertainer circles. The link that I have made available for the Editors to review is below: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bz4gyjhP7mm3ZGVlOTYxYjEtYzJlMC00ODkxLWE4YjEtZThlNTVhYmZhZmEy --Jaytribute516 13:52, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute516 said the following: Two other quick issues to note, and again, I appreciate this opportunity to provide additional documentation. I just did a search on google with the terms: "Jay Jason" catskill comedian and found over 1000 entries. Most were dealing with Jay Jason, but I can not attest to all of them as I did not go through them all.

Jaytribute516 said the categories have been changes to comply with more standard terms. Thanks for the feedback on this. --Jaytribute516 14:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute516 added: I have also added a few more links to the article, as suggested, including to Jewish humor, Jewish Comedians, List of humorists, list of comedians, and impersonators. Thanks for the suggestion, and also for the vote list at the top to keep.--Jaytribute516 15:03, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute516 added: I have tried to reformat the references so that the are more similar to other Wiki pages. As they say, always more work to do on getting this right. I might need some help with putting a picture back up for Jay, so I might need to ask a few questions to get this right. --Jaytribute516 18:37, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute51 added references that provide a sample of examples of Jay Jason being cited in a variety of media sources. I am hoping this provides more references that have been requested by the editors.--Jaytribute516 16:39, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute516 took off the links to the three hotels. Hope this corrects the problem.--Jaytribute516 15:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute516 put in an updated set of links to media reports of Jay Jason, to document parts of his career. Sorry for changing this several times over the past few days, but I thought it best to delete older links that had been changed as those links no longer work. theo following link does give an overview of media coverage in a number of newspapers and magazines over Jay Jason's career:https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bz4gyjhP7mm3OTNkNDY0MTYtMWM2OC00OWJkLTk0YTYtYWE1NzUwNWMzZGU4--Jaytribute516 20:02, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

I am Chinese and I watched Jay Jason's wiki page and the tapes on Youtube. Jay Jason is a great comic and Chinese people really enjoy his jokes. Thanks for putting this on the site. If I can help with references, I will try.--Chinesegal009 (talk) 20:46, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I know of the era of the Catskills lively entertainment, and it is remarkable to capture one of its most beloved comedians of those times.--Daryl0005 (talk) 22:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute515 went to the wiki clean up site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup) and did not see this article listed, so maybe the clean up has allowed this problem to be taken care of.--Jaytribute516 16:50, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Jaytribute516 continues to work on the references for this Jay Jason entry, and making some good progress on it. Am trying to get rid of old links that are no longer relevant to this talk page given the changes that has been done on the actual entry--Jaytribute516 12:54, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Nice work on wiki citations, and I made a few more organizational changes--Chinesegal009 (talk) 20:06, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Since the original posting of Jay Jason in early Jan. 2012, the article has been improved with the help of 24 postings by Wiki helpers. There have been 13 different Wiki people who have contributed ideas, suggestions, new references, and made important editorial changes including the following: Vegaswikian1, Location, Lenin and McCarthy, Helpful Pixie Bot, MikeWazowski, Gene93K, GregoryB, Deryck Chan, Djassso, Alansohn, JL-Bot, Bearian, and Daryl005. I thank them all and in particular Deryck Chan who continually provided me ways to improve this listing. I also want to thank Alansohn, who added this important documentation which I had not been aware of: "My Favorite Jokes"], Parade (magazine) in The Modesto Bee. Alansohn concluded that “notability is established based on the sources provided; this is a perfect example of an individual who was well known in his day but for whom online sources are sparse”. --Jaytribute516 17:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaytribute516 (talk • contribs)