Joy Behar

American comedian, television host, actress and writer

Photo by: Nick Step · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Born:October 7, 1942

Age:84

Zodiac Sign:Libra

Children:1

Born in:Brooklyn, United States

Residence:The Hamptons, United States

Languages:American English

Voice Actor Screenwriter Film Actor Writer Presenter Comedian Journalist Teacher Children's Writer

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Famous For

Notable Work

The View

Movies & TV

Manhattan Murder MysteryHall PassLove Is All There IsThis Is My LifeCookie

Awards

Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host (2011)Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host (2010)GLAAD Media Awards (2010)Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host (2009)CableACE Award (1995)

Joy Behar

American comedian, television host, actress and writer

Biography

Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar (; née Occhiuto; born October 7, 1942) is an American comedian, television host, actress, and playwright. She co-hosts the ABC talk show The View, on which she has appeared since the beginning of the series. For her work on The View, Behar won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2009. She hosted The Joy Behar Show on HLN from 2009 to 2011 and Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current TV, from 2012 until the channel switched formats in August 2013. Behar's latest weekly late-night talk show, Late Night Joy, aired on TLC in 2015. She also wrote The Great Gasbag: An A–Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World.

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Quotes

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

— Longstanding Behar joke about how her Italian-Catholic persona is mistaken as being Jewish. As reported in The Boston Globe (April 20, 2008) page 3. Url accessed on December 12, 2008.

“Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.”

— The View, October 4, 2011.[1]

Quotes sourced from the Wikiquote article "Joy Behar", available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Photos

Television personality Joy Behar of "The View" attends the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards on March 13, 2010 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

From left: Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on an episode of The View at ABC Studios in New York City.

W.H.C.D. 2004 Wash D.C.

Television personality Joy Behar of "The View" attends the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards on March 13, 2010 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.