Mal Z. Lawrence, a mainstay of comedy in the Catskills during the latter years of that resort area’s heyday, and one of the performers who brought borscht belt humor to Midtown Manhattan in 1991 in the hit show “Catskills on Broadway,” died Sept. 30 in Delray Beach, FL. He was 88.

Mr. Lawrence came to prominence in the Catskills in the 1950s but was soon known all over the country, playing Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Florida and other stops on the comedy circuit, where his brand of Jewish humor was greeted enthusiastically. To a Florida audience, he’d poke fun at the Catskills; to a northern audience, he’d joke about Florida.

“I worked a place down there called Century Village of West Palm Beach,” one routine went. “Working there, if you didn’t have a handicapped parking sticker, there was nowhere to put your car.”

Mr. Lawrence, who added the Z to his name to get more marquee space, he said, also acted in films and would occasionally turn up in a play. For his appearance in a Broadway revival of “Candide,” he shaved his signature mustache. “I look 20 minutes younger now,” he told the Jewish Exponent at the time.