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Entertainment December 13, 2016
Even the most experienced performers suffer from nerves, as Joy Behar proves.
“The View” co-host revealed on Tuesday’s show that she still sometimes vomits before standup comedy performances, even though she has been telling jokes on stage since the Eighties.
“It’s been extremely stressful for 35 years,” Behar said, after discussing the high standards she holds herself to in her comedy act. “I puke. I puke… sometimes.”
Behar added that she has “no anxiety” when it comes to co-hosting “The View.” The nerves only pop up for her standup performances.
“If you are not laughing every single second…” she said, explaining that even one lull in her routine is unacceptable to her.
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If she has a one hour routine, she needs the audience to be entertained for that entire 60 minute set, otherwise she feels she has failed. “You have to be laughing hysterically for one hour,” Joy explained.
Behar admitted that the pressure she puts on herself is “too much,” adding, “It’s ridiculous.”
In a show of solidarity, fellow co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and Jedidiah Bila all resolved to support her by showing up at her next comedy gig, which is at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut on Jan. 7.
