Joy Behar

Joy Behar is an American comedian and television host who has also worked as an actress and playwright. Born in Brooklyn, she taught high school English before entering show business in the early 1980s, first as a receptionist at Good Morning America and later as one of its producers. She moved into stand-up comedy and appeared on The New Show, and in 1987 hosted the Lifetime variety talk show Way Off Broadway. Small film roles followed in Cookie, This Is My Life and Manhattan Murder Mystery. In 1997 she joined The View as one of its original panelists and eventually became a permanent co-host, and in 2009 she and her fellow hosts shared a Daytime Emmy Award. She also hosted The Joy Behar Show on HLN from 2009 to 2011, Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current TV from 2012 to 2013, and the weekly Late Night Joy on TLC in 2015, and played Dr. Lucy in Hall Pass (2011).