Joy Behar Biography

Joy Behar happens to be a comedian, TV personality, actor and writer from the US. She is the only original panelist as of now featuring on ABC’s daytime talk show The View, that she co-hosts. Since 2009 to 2011, she hosted The Joy Behar Show on HLN, from 2012 to August the year 2013, she presented Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current television. Late Night Joy, Behar’s most recent weekly late-night chat show, started on TLC in the year 2015. She’s as well the author of The Great Gasbag: An A–Z Study Guide for Surviving the Trump Era.

Joy Behar Age

She is 79 years old as of 7th October 2021. She got to the station in 1942 in Williamsburg, New York, US. Her official name is Josephine Victoria “Joy” Behar.

Joy Behar Family

Behar was given birth to in a Roman Catholic household of Italian origin as an only child. Rose (née Carbone), her mother, happened to be a seamstress while Gino Occhiuto, her father, was a Coca-Cola truck driver. Behar completed from Queens College with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in the year 1964 and a master’s degree in English education from Stony Brook University in the year 1966. She taught English at Lindenhurst Senior High School in Lindenhurst, New York, from the fall of 1960s until the early 1970s. She attended the HB Studio to study acting.

Joy Behar Husband

Behar was wife to Joe Behar, a college professor, from the year 1965 till 1981. Eve Behar Scotti is their only daughter. Her grandson’s name is Luca . Behar married Steve Janowitz in the year 2011 after 29 years together.

Joy Behar Education

Behar completed from Queens College with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1964 and a master’s degree in English education from Stony Brook University in the year 1966. She taught English at Lindenhurst Senior High School in Lindenhurst, New York, from the fall of 1960s until the early 1970s. She attended the HB Studio to study acting.

Joy Behar Net Worth

She has a net worth of about $30 Million.

Joy Behar Salary

She receives a yearly salary of about $7 Million.

Joy Behar The Joy Behar Show

From 2007, she has featured as a guest host on Larry King Live on a sporadic basis. Behar made public on June 11th 2009, that she would be airing her own news/talk show, The Joy Behar Show, on CNN’s HLN starting the fall of 2009. She did not quit The View; instead, she served on both shows at the same time. HLN chose to nullify the chat show after two years, even though it was the network’s second-highest-rated show. The Joy Behar Show aired its last episode on December 15th 2011.

Joy Behar Joy Behar: Say Anything

Joy Behar: Say Anything! will start on the Current television network on September 4th 2012. It was officially confirmed in June the year 2012 that Behar will be getting another talk show. Behar started filling in for Eliot Spitzer’s Current television talk show, Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, on July 18th 2012, before the new show started. Current television was bought by Al Jazeera in August the year 2013, and the show was replaced by Al Jazeera America.

Joy Behar Late Night Joy

Late Night Joy, Behar’s short-lived every week late-night chat program, unveiled on TLC on November 4th 2015. At every episode, Behar has private talks with friends in her New York City apartment. After five episodes, it was nullified.

Joy Behar The View

Behar got to the ABC daytime talk show The View, that was co-authored by Barbara Walters, as one of the first panelists in the year 1997. Come 2009, Behar and her co-hosts bagged the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Behar brought to the public on March 7th 2013, that she would be leaving the program at the end of that very season.

Mike Pence, Vice President, is a stooge Christian. “Talking to Jesus is one thing; talking to Jesus is another,” she elaborated. Viewers asked for an apology from Behar, and ABC got 40,000 calls and 6,000 complaints. Bob Iger, the CEO of the Walt Disney Company, showed that Behar had apologized to Pence directly.

Joy Behar TV Shows

•  2018 – Crashing
• 2016 – Nashville
•  2016 – Crisis in Six Scenes
•  2009 – Ugly Betty
•  2007 – One Life to Live
•  2007 – 30 Rock
•  2005–17 – Real Time with Bill Maher
•  2001 – Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
•  2000 – Spin City
•  2015–present – The View
•  1996 – Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
•  1991 – Wisecracks
•  1990 – The Rock

Joy Behar Movies

•  2012 – Ice Age: Continental Drift
• 2011 – Hall Pass
•  2009 – Madea Goes to Jail
•  1996 – ‘M’ Word
•  1996 – Love Is All There Is
•  1993 – Manhattan Murder Mystery
•  1992 – This Is My Life
•  1989 – Cookie
•  1987 – Hiding Out