An Equal Opportunity Offender. But after only a couple of years as a rising star on TV's variety shows, he was virtually banished from the tube after a run-in with variety show king Ed Sullivan. After a supposed reconciliation, Mason was invited back to the Sullivan show for a performance. But he was never asked back again, and by that time, the damage was done to Mason's career. Unfazed, the comic continued to point irreverent fingers left and right throughout the show biz wilderness for the next 20 years.
People are stupid.
Not exactly Will Rogers-esque. But it's often hard to argue with the man.