Joy Shtick: Or What Is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come with Attachments - Softcover

Behar, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786885459 ISBN 13: 9780786885459

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Now in paperback! The View's raciest co-host shares her views on life and womanhood in a side-splitting scrapbook of reflection, rage, and raw honesty

"One of the funniest women in America" (New York Post), irrepressible comedienne Joy Behar never minces words. Whether she's skewering popular culture as the co-host of ABC's The View, or offering her own skewed outlook on life in one of her sold-out standup routines, she's always candid about the way she feels. And this book is no exception. A no-holds-barred scrapbook of Joy's perspective on life, it includes rants on every topic--from aging to men, to family, to death--and features Q&As with Joy's take on every dilemma. Flip through her private, hilarious collection of family photos. Enter her weird imagination as she dreams up a feminist feud between Gloria Steinem and Camille Paglia. And discover why she's certain to remain one of America's most charming and disarming personalities.

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Joy Behar is currently a co-host of The View. Her television work includes appearances on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect, a regular role on Baby Boom, and a Cable ACE Award-winning stint on Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist. She was also a talk show host on her own WABC radio show and had roles in such movies as This Is My Life and Manhattan Murder Mystery. She lives in New York City.

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How to Tell if You're Really Italian: The True and False Test

It has come to my attention that for some reason there is a small group of people who claim to be Italian even though they're not. In order to ascertain just who are the real Italians, I have devised a fool-proof true-false test. Take it if you dare.

Give yourself one point for each correct answer

1. True or False: A braciola is a lethal weapon.

2. True or False: A pitsuda is a Japanese motel.

3. True or False: If you had ten cannoli and eighteen sfogliatelli and you ate three pastaciotti after swallowing a pound of mortadella, you could be hungry at ten o'clock for a little dish of meatballs, or maybe a nice pepper and egg sandwich.

4. True or False: A rolling propetta gathers no sauce.

5. True or False: Figlia Bedda is a silent screen star.

6. True or False: Cuoricedda di Papa is a recent acquisition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

7. True or False: A sensible breakfast for an infant is pureed sausage and peppers.

8. True or False: Chi Fa is the brother of Kung Fu.

9. True or False: "People who live in glass houses should dress in the cellar" was said by Immanuel Kant.

Answers: 1. T; 2. F; 3. T; 4. T; 5. F; 6. F; 7. T; 8. F.; 9. F

If you scored nine, you are definitely Italian. Go inside and take the plastic seat covers off the couch.

If you scored five to eight, you are eating at too many Italian restaurants and you're too involved in Tony Danza's career.

If you scored zero to four, fuhgedaboudit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786885459
• ISBN 13: 9780786885459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208