Joy Behar
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Behar in March 2010
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| Born |
Josephine Victoria Occhiuto October 7, 1942 Williamsburg, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Comedian, writer, actress |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Joe Behar (m. 1965; div. 1981) Steve Janowitz (m. 2011) |
| Children | 1 |
Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar (/ˈbeɪhɑːr/; née Occhiuto; born October 7, 1942) is an American comedian, writer, and actress. She co-hosts the ABC daytime talk show The View. 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 new weekly late-night talk show, Late Night Joy, premiered on TLC in November 2015.
Behar was born in Williamsburg, New York, to a Catholic family of Italian descent. Her mother, Rose (née Carbone), was a seamstress, and her father, Gino Occhiuto, was a truck driver for Coca-Cola. Behar earned a BA in sociology from Queens College in 1964 and an MA in English education from Stony Brook University in 1966. From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, she taught English at Lindenhurst Senior High School in Lindenhurst, New York.
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