US comedian Jackie Mason dies aged 93

Comedian Jackie Mason stands beside a bus displaying a sign advertising his TV show in 1992 (AP)

Rabbi-turned-comedian Jackie Mason has died aged 93.

Mason, whose feisty brand of stand-up comedy led him from Catskills nightclubs to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, died on Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, the celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder told the Associated Press.