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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

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Joy Behar
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 7
Comedian
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Brooklyn
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Josephine Victoria Occhiuto
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