Joy Behar Quotes

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.

Funny is funny. You can be fooled by the eye, but if your performance is funny to the ear, it will be funny. I think it's that if you don't have the visual, you have to infuse the full personality into the voice.

In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

It was always the most fun thing in the world to think of a joke area and talk about it with someone like Jim Carrey, and then he would get on stage fearlessly and tear the house down. That's something I always enjoyed. It also allowed me to not be terrified.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I love comedians that dive into politics. I personally don't feel comfortable, with my background, weighing in unless I have a take that I think is funny enough that I would put it in front of an audience.

Chris Rock, I think is pretty brilliant, and Amy Schumer's fabulous.

It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

I think comedy in the last 5-7 years is as good as it's ever been in America. I like it when people push it. You go through periods where people did not push the envelope. The more you push it, the funnier you get.