Top 35 Joy Behar Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Isn’t it a little racist to call it Black Friday?”

— Joy Behar

2. “I want a man in my life, not in my house.”

— Joy Behar

3. “I’ve been through many years of psychotherapy, psycho-drama, I’ve taken risks in my life. I’ve had trials and tribulations just like every body else. You have to really think about who you are. You can’t just go through life and sail threw.”

— Joy Behar

4. “I think it’s interesting to me to talk to people who don’t agree with me all the time.”

— Joy Behar

5. “I feel bad for young people. The 20s are a nightmare also. The 20s are hard to do.”

— Joy Behar

6. “You know, I’m a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we’re fundits! We’re not pundits!”

— Joy Behar

7. “I’m Italian, but some people think I’m Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.”

— Joy Behar

8. “Monogamy is monotonous, but it’s safe you know. And that’s my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.”

— Joy Behar

9. “If you have trouble with finding things you should get into some kind of therapy with a good therapist if you need, I mean I just believe in therapy for everybody. I really do. I don’t think any body can escape it.”

— Joy Behar

10. “It’s not interesting enough if you don’t know who you are, what you want. You need to make educated decisions about your moves and talk to people who care about you. And you need to have people who will have your back.”

— Joy Behar

11. “Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny.”

— Joy Behar

12. “I don’t profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that’s my position.”

— Joy Behar

13. “It’s a completely useless emotion – jealousy. I don’t go there.”

— Joy Behar

14. “I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don’t organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.”

— Joy Behar

15. “I am comfortable with myself, and this is how I am. I am not really interested in having an acrimonious fight with somebody.”

— Joy Behar

16. “I think looks do matter on television.”

— Joy Behar

17. “I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.”

— Joy Behar

18. “It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do – I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup.”

— Joy Behar

19. “Republican Party hasn’t been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.”

— Joy Behar

20. “The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.”

— Joy Behar

21. “I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.”

— Joy Behar

22. “A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.”

— Joy Behar

23. “Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she’s not a beautiful woman and she’s getting older. But you’re saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she’s talking about.”

— Joy Behar

24. “I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.”

— Joy Behar

25. “I don’t want to do just a liberal show.”

— Joy Behar

26. “Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa’s Trattoria.”

— Joy Behar

27. “He’s a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist.”

— Joy Behar

28. “When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.”

— Joy Behar

29. “Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.”

— Joy Behar

30. “I don’t need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.”

— Joy Behar

31. “I do like talk shows. I’m interested in talking to people.”

— Joy Behar

32. “As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that’s true. I do believe that.”

— Joy Behar

33. “You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it’s not that easy.”

— Joy Behar

34. “You can see a lot of politics on a lot of different channels. I’m not interested, really, in talking in some wonky conversation about politics, though. It’s not my speed. I’m not interested in the ins and outs of health care.”

— Joy Behar

35. “I feel like when being raised in New York City I have a particular perspective on things like Gay issues maybe, because I’m in the middle of Manhattan.”

— Joy Behar