Joy Behar | |
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Born | Josephine Victoria Occhiuto October 7, 1942 New York City, U.S. |
Education | Queens College (BA) Stony Brook University (MA) |
Occupation(s) | Comedian, television host, actress |
Years active | 1984–present |
Known for | The View co-host (1997–2013, 2015–present) |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouses | Joe Behar
(m. 1965; div. 1981)Steve Janowitz (m. 2011) |
Children | 1 |
Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar[1] (/ˈbeɪhɑːr/; née Occhiuto) is an American comedian, television host, and actress. 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[2][3] and Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current TV, from 2012[4] 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.