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Joy Behar

American comedian, television host, actress and writer · United States · On the map · Comedians · Born 1942 · age 84

Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar 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.

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2011“Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.”In their words4 October 2011The View

Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show HostAward2010Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show HostAwardGLAAD Media AwardsAward2009Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show HostAward1995CableACE AwardAward1942Born7 October 1942

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  1. 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,, Own words

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Awards

Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host2011
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host2010
GLAAD Media Awards2010
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host2009
CableACE Award1995

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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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Born 1942 · age 84

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