Josephine Victoria "
Joy"
Behar 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 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 AâZ Study Guide to Surviving Trump World.