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Schmucks!: Our Favorite Fakes, Frauds, Lowlifes, Liars, the Armed and Dangerous, and Good Guys Gone Bad | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jackie Mason, Raoul Felder
Publisher: Collins Living
Category: Book
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 345929
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061126128
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780061126123
ASIN: 0061126128
Publication Date: April 1, 2007
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Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy well known and beloved around the world and his friend in crime Raoul Felder go after America's lowlifes, scumbags and everything else that pisses them off - including old men who wear black socks and shorts to the beach. The book spares no one, Politicians, sports stars, celebrities, corporations, publishers, crossing guards, all fair game. If you are a scumbag or just somebody who they find annoying there is a fair chance you will be on the list. Politics has long been a passion for Jackie Mason and he is well known for his tough and outspoken position on many issues. He is not one to sidestep an issue no matter how sticky. Together with his friend and collaborator, the well-known divorce attorney Raoul Lionel Felder, he has hosted a weekly PBS talk television series "Crossing The Line" and a BBC radio show "The Mason-Felder Report", and currently he has a weekly talk show on the Comcast Network.
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 An Education in Schmucks November 23, 2008
The first thing I found interesting about this book is that it is divided into sections: "Holy Schmucks", "Rich Schmucks", "Power Schmucks", etc. The second thing I found interesting about this book is that each schmuck only gets a few pages that highlight his, her, or its schmuckish behavior.
Many of the schmucks in the book are the ones that you already know are schmucks: Mahmous Ahmadinejad, Cindy Sheehan, Tom Cruise, Al Sharpton, The Hilton Girls, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and Susan Sarandon. The fun part is learning about schmucks that you thought might be schmucks but weren't sure. Even more fun is learning about schmucks you have never heard of.
A funny read. A little trite at times and some of the humor is a little predictable. However, definitely worth the time. The nice thing is that you can read a smidge here and a smidge there. The next thing you know, you're done with the book and you are mentally making your own list of schmucks.
 Schmucks June 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not very funny. They mostly trash people they and most of us don't like. A lot of the stuff is a rehash of already published material.
Disappointingly shallow April 2, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sadly, this book takes a great concept and goes nowhere with it. Sure, there are a few chuckles, but Jackie Mason is capable of a lot better than this snoozer. It consists mainly of lame potshots at easy targets. The Hilton sisters are spoiled; ha ha. Radical Muslim fundamentalists are "humorless." You don't say! Duke Cunningham is a greedy hypocrite. This is supposed to be clever? Some of the sections, such as the one that attacks "Reform Jews" for trying to be like rich, superficial WASPs (is that really what Reform Judaism is about, Mr. Former Rabbi?), are just plain stupid.
The book is also full of smaller factual errors, for example a reference to Mets "pitcher" (actually third baseman) David Wright. That's a pretty embarassing mistake for a couple of New Yorkers to make. And there are plenty of other lazy inaccuracies throughout. The fact-checker (assuming there even was one) should find another line of work.
I get the general feeling that very little effort was put into this book. The authors often forgot about the "humor" part of "observational humor." You can't just point out something ironic or foolish and call that comedy. To be fair, some of the jokes are good, but too many of them are just cheap name-calling. I had high expectations for this book and was sorely disappointed. All the more so because the world could use more *good* right-leaning humor -- too much of it is more concerned with being right-leaning than with being funny.
 Cheap Awful Jokes and simply stupid October 6, 2007
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I guess I thought it would give me a laugh or two based on some of highlighted phases, "Jews for Jesus" etc. However, it was yet another comedian trying to join the Lewis Black, Daily Show or Bill Maher bandwagon of political humor. Too bad this comedian is not as funny nor has diverse content.
After the first few pages the book simply turns into a complaining/vent session of everything which the authors deeply disagrees with - let me summarize:
Any Jew who is against Israel
Any political organization against Israel politics
Any person who remotely supports the Holocaust
Any non-Conservative
and silly jokes to those in media which require teasing (ie. Al Sharpton, Michael Moore, Jesse Jackson, Britney, etc.)
There are many other comedian with similar content and jokes but they are really funny whereas this book just takes a small segment of its victim and highlights it as their basis for existence.
Save yourself money and time. If you want something funny watch a truly funny comedian. Allow Jackie to perform on Broadway and advise him to keep the stand-up act going but stay away from the typewriter.
Useful in only one regard September 25, 2007
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
Perhaps I'm just getting too old... I can vaguely remember back in the early days of television when some of what Jackie Mason said was actually funny.
But the only way this book could been any worse would have been if Alan Derschowitz had done the editing and Ann Coulter's face had been on the cover. (Although, to be fair, Neither Mr. Mason nor Mr. Felder is very much less unappealing to behold than Ms. Coulter)
Still, this book did add something to my store of knowledge. Based upon the definitions given in the introduction, I can now state with some authority that:
1. Anyone who either buys a book written by a faded borscht belt comedian and a celebrity divorce lawyer for more than 39 cents on a remainders table OR takes seriously anything contained in said book - is a schmuck.
2. Anyone who actually writes such a book as this one AND puts his own name on it - is a putz.
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