TV & VIDEO - Nov. 10, 1989

Canceled Mason Not Worried: Comedian Jackie Mason, whose new series “Chicken Soup” was canceled this week by ABC, said Thursday in an interview taped for CNN’s “Larry King Live” program that “I’m not too worried about my career because any decent person would feel stupid for calling me a racist.” Mason has drawn fire for the comments he made while campaigning for New York Republican mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani. “The only people who would call me a racist from their own sick guilt somehow feel cleansed by it. They’ve enjoyed it . . . and then there’s the black columnists who feel if they don’t have anybody to call a racist, then they don’t have anything to write about.” Mason said he was “a Humphrey Democrat crusading for equality for blacks before anyone even heard of the civil rights movement. I don’t have to apologize or justify myself to anyone, not these sick people who feel cleansed by attacking me.”