Thank You Mask Man is an animated short film based upon a comedy routine by Lenny Bruce, he died in which year, and he was a Jewish-American stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist?
Lenny Bruce Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was a Jewish-American stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in the history of New York state, by then-Governor George Pataki in 2003.
Jack Mendelsohn Jack Mendelsohn (November 8, 1926 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer-artist who worked in animation, comic strips and comic books. An Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor, he had numerous credits as a TV scripter, including "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", "Three's Company", "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Among his work for feature films, he was a co-screenwriter of "Yellow Submarine" (1968). In 2004, the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.