“Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish."”

—  Joy Behar

Longstanding Behar joke about how her Italian-Catholic persona is mistaken as being Jewish. As reported in The Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/04/20/in_the_swirl_of_the_view_a_stabilizing_force/?page=3 (April 20, 2008) page 3. Url accessed on December 12, 2008.

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