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Joy has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host for the The View every year since 1998 alongside The View co-hosts but has lost every year.
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Joy and Barbara Walter are the only two co-hosts of The View to have remained with the show from season one.
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Joy Behar has a MA in English education from SUNY at Stony Brook.
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Joy passionately dislikes Mel Gibson
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Kibbles n Bits hosted a book party for Joy on 10/4.
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Joy says that she loves to gamble.
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When Joy was first brought on to The View she wasn't on every episode. She would fill in for Barbara when needed, but she soon won a full time spot with her comedic timing.
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For three years Joy had a popular call-in radio show on WABC.
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She served as correspondent for Comedy Central, covering the Democratic National Convention.
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Joy has starred in her own HBO special.
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Joy is donating 100% of her proceeds from the children's book to North Shore Animal League.
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She made her daughter's fiance promise that they wouldn't move away when they got married.
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Her dog got married on the View.
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Joy started her career as a stand up comedian.
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Joy's daughter lives in an apartment upstairs from her.
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Joy has been with her mate since 1983, but they have never married.
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She wrote a children's book titled "Sheetzu Caca Poopoo, My Kind of Dog".
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Joy frequently holds either a pen or her glasses in her right hand while talking.