Yes, Jackie Mason! The others mentioned had their great, memorable moments, mostly highly scripted and orchestrated. Laughing at their humor was an occupational hazard for some, though people could not help but laugh along with them in the era of live TV (before taped performances). Groucho had a really quick wit for retorts.
Jackie’s soul had absorbed from Jewish history the sense of tragio-comedic human irony that comes from deep in the soul of his family and the collective history and memory of his people as a whole. It’s humor of survival, bitter, and sometimes able to be perceived as bitter sweet, with deep ties to the experience of continual persecution of the Jews in Russia and the Pale of settlement and the persecutions and relocations of 2,000 years. It has been written that this ordained rabb, Jackie Mason,i was so funny at his early employment as a rabbi that members of the congregation urged him to pursue comedy as a career.
Of all the funny men who have been mentioned, only Jackie Mason time after time, year in and year out, had my parents and me, when I was a kid, uncontrollably howling with laughter. Recordings on YouTube of Jackie Mason’s performances in England, etc, show that one doesn’t have to be Jewish to love Jackie Mason’s humor of hyperbole and truth.
My family also thinks he is one of the funniest people.