Comedian

My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.

My mother loves it when I talk about her. Half the time, I think she says things that she knows will go straight into the act.

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.

Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, 'Oh, I'm not gonna vote,' I just wanna tear their heart out.

People always think you have a lot of money when they see you on TV.

My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ.

I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.

There is no reason to be ashamed of who you are.

I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother.

When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was allowed to utter a sound. Her gait was full of pep and purpose and her voice unmatched.

The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.

When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

If I was married to a man, and I had the same life situation that I have, it's the perfect recipe for a sitcom.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.