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Joy Behar Out — Will No Longer Be Enjoying ‘The View’

Mar. 8, 2013 6:46am Jonathon M. Seidl

LOS ANGELES (TheBlaze/AP) — Joy Behar will be enjoying “The View” for only five more months.

The 70-year-old comedian is leaving the ABC daytime talk show at the end of the current season in August. The network said in a statement Thursday that it wishes Behar “all the best in this next chapter, and are thrilled that we have her for the remainder of the season.”

According to ABC, Behar said it “seemed like the right time to move on.” But she was much more open with the gossip outlet Deadline.

It seemed like the right time,” Behar told the website. “You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this? There are other things on my plate I want to do – I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup.”

She went on: “I do like talk shows. I’m interested in talking to people. I want to do an intelligenttalk show where you have room to breath.”

And adding to the speculation? She said she had a “positive meeting” with new CNN head Jeff Zucker, who has poached the likes of Jake Tapper recently.

Behar has co-hosted “The View” for 16 seasons. She was among the first co-hosts with co-creator Barbara Walters when the series debuted. The current panel includes Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd.

In addition to “The View,” Behar hosted “The Joy Behar Show” on HLN from 2009 to 2011 and currently hosts “Joy Behar: Say Anything!” on Current TV, which debuted last year.

This story has been updated.

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jessieH
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:15am
Sounds like a total waste of six seasons. I didn’t think anyone watched this crap, anymore.

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- 1947
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:33am
  There is a GOD… I can now watch “The View” and keep the volume on.
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:08am
  She’s getting measured up for that Burka she will wear on the new and improved Current TV, A.K.A. Al Jezzera.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:01am
  Yea~ Yea~ that obnoxious old bag is going to Current where she belongs. Her kind doesn’t belong on anything America sees (no one will watch Current)
  Now, in 5 months, I can start watching the View once in a while with that un-funny so called comedian gone. Never could figure out how people could watch hateful idiots like her, so I avoided that program.
  What is is about female comedians? They AREN’T funny, just mean and hateful, and I’m including that idiot who kissed Anderson’s crotch on new years program. YUK, POO those broads.
  
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- horsefeathers99
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:13am
  I stopped watching the ultimate liberal show some time ago, mainly because of Joyless.
  Panel is still awful.
  They have the obnoxiously, annoying Whoopi, the biased Barbara who tries to act young and funny….not working, the RINO Elizabeth who is polite and I like Sherri, she is funny, but is so in love with anyone of her same color.
  
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- grimjack3791
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:25am
  I can’t stand that woman and The View is completely awful, but I gotta hand it to her. I had no idea she was 70 years old. Looks pretty damn spry for a 70 year old.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:22am
  Shows for mindless people.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:30am
  LOL…yeah good move Zucker…put Behar on a show on CNN so it can tank like her other show did…smart.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 12:59pm
  Isn’t Joy the one that does those constipation comercials, the one’s where she’s an expert on the subject. The ones where she tells her interested subjects how to work out their problem with a coat hanger. She really knows how to give out some sage advice. If she’s such an expert, why does she look like she’s terminally irregular? I was in a best buy a couple of years ago, and she was on t.v. Some young kid, armed with a whoopie cushion, was watcher her. Every time she’d open her mouth he’d blow it off. I thought that kids pretty smart. He already had her number. The person who said the only standup she does is when she takes a leak.was also funny too and insightful. That would make a very funny scene in a comedy, especially when some guy walks in to use it, catches a glimpse of her and has that “Say What” look on his face.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:58pm
  Thank God. Go join Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 6:32pm
  “I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breath.” Not if she’s on it.
  
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RightMeansRight2
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:13am
This skank is disgusting and will not be missed by anyone. She is trash and so are her “fans”.

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- wingedwolf
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:40pm
  Joyless needs to get back out to the pasture with the rest of the old mares.
  
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TonyFox
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:12am
Thank God that (C) is leaving. She needs to be tied up and dropped off in a HIGH CRIME AREA. Along with her friend OBAMA the ARROGANT

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Willik
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:05am
I wonder if ABC will ‘man up’ and put a Conservative in her place?
I’d love to see Whoopie, et.al., go apeshit, ON AIR!

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- Macrobat
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:51am
  Go all in, hire Sarah Palin – watch heads explode
  
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Daveed
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:05am
Bye Mz. Behar. I hope in the future we will get to see a more kinder, gentler, compassionate intelligent and humble Joy come to the forefront.

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- SREGN
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:45am
  I heard that she was going to Gitmo to assist in terrorist interrogation. They are just going to let Joy go on talking until the terrorists do.
  
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- marine249
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:44am
  @DAVEED
  say what?
  
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MarsBarsTru7
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:01am
Behar out. *shrug*
Now let’s see who the next leftist twit Walters brings in will be.

I think my caring for this issue is right about as high as my caring what Dennis Rodman says about foreign policy.

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DZ-015
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:00am
Goodby, and a HEE-HAW to you, Joy Brayhard.

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- Fubared
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:26am
  She does stand up? Who knew.
  
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Chromo200
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:54am
AL Jazeerah is looking for people to lull us to sleep and keep the low information voters happy.

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term limits for congress
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:53am
she’s probably been approached by the WH to be the czar of something.

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Grace1798
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:45am
Thank God BEHOR is leaving. What a low life.

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ricckky
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:43am
This is no news–Until the dumb downed viewers stop watching this tripe-these left wing propaganda shows will continue ad nauseam!!!! The reason we are having so much moral and intellectual decay in America today is because of the apathy on the part of so many spoiled Americans. Until there is a dramatic event to wake people up–this will go on and on until it is too late–Apathy is the ARMY OF THE ENEMY–!!!!

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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:25am
  RICCKKY: This is the amazing part of why people watch this trash. My sister, a staunch Republican, watches this kind of trash, Why? I have no idea except she needs to get a life. I tell her all the time to stop watching and supporting the low-lives of TV and ‘supposed’ entertainment industry.
  But I remember when we were in high school and drove down some of the Hollywood streets and my sister would go ga-ga over seeing a Moovie Starz and I’d roll my eyes at her. I wouldn’t give most of them the TIME OF DAY even back then, because I felt it encouraged them and I wouldn’t do that.
  When I know most of them are liberal A wholes, I have absolutely NO interest in any of them.
  
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Hadituptohere
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:39am
she would have to have intelligence to make an intelligent talk show…unless of course your talkin’ al jasmeara or animal planet…oooh oooh aaah aaah. best of luck joy… NOT!!

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Gonzo
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:38am
“I’ve been neglecting my standup.” I thought the act you were doing on The View WAS standup Joy!

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- huey6367
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:45am
  By stand up you mean comedy? Why isn’t it funny?
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:21am
  The only “standup” she’s been doing is at the urinal.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:40am
  She’s not funny, but she IS a joke Huey.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:56am
  EAST, LOL!
  Stand up? I thought that Maude Behar slid into shows like the View and others all because she stopped being funny years ago. Is she looking to do VH1 Stand Up Spotlight again?
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:35am
By the way, why stop with Behar? What about Ellen?

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love the kids
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:35am
Neglected Stand-up????? I laugh everytime I see her. I had no idea she was THAT old, how come all these liberal women that do nothing but complain about the environment and “Destroying Nature” fight and alter it with their own bodies every step of the way???

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beekeeper
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:34am
Joy Behar has a show on Current? I can’t imagine anyone outside her immediate family even know about it, let alone watch it.

I guess her show on Current is effectively toast – or will the Quatari Overlords of Al Jazzera keep this Catskills-quality entertainer on the payroll?

And Jonathan, please, don’t refer to Joy Behar and Jake Tapper in the same sentence – Jake deserves better…

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toody1969
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:26am
Allright, everybody at one time. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DAMN!”

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Sargeking
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:25am
I hope that disgusting woman simply fades away. The “Hollywood Home for Aged” and Infirm sounds about right.

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Palmer1943
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:23am
I wouldn’t worry about Ms. Joy Behar. There are so many extremist far left media organizations out there that I am sure the next news that we hear about her is, she is a Political analyst for MSNBC, CNN or as a spokes person for the CBC.

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- Susie
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:14am
  NO NO PALMER1943 Please no !
  Keep Behar out of Canada – the CBC gets $1.1 billion from the taxpayer already, to support a huge list of far left loons, ie the likes of Susuki – a comedian in his own right – who produces the worst kind of far left propaganda known to man – thinly veiled as science, he force feeds the watcher on misinformation, manipulation of fact and outright lies – If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny.
  We don’t need any more hacks on the payroll at CBC. Perhaps “JOY” would be better placed south of the southern border. See what happens when she starts mouthing-off down there.
  
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huey6367
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:21am
Now if the rest would leave and be replaced by people like Hasselback I might watch the show. Nah, I have a job.

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Caniac Steve
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:12am
I wishe her well…some place else ..Like mars

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Sharon Rose
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:11am
Never wasted my time watching the program.

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Eastinfection
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:09am
Gives her more time to devote to her new Islamic captors, er, i mean “bosses”.
How’s that burqa working out for you Joy?

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- HumbleMan
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:18am
  Same.
  
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HeavenlyMinded
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:08am
She’s 70 years old??!!! That formaldehyde works pretty well, doesn’t it?

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65Mustang
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 6:53am
Could not happen to a nicer person. I can’t stand the mouthy, liberal be-itch, take Whoopi with her as she walks out the door. The View has seen better days.

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- Caniac Steve
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:11am
  I wish her well…some place else on the planet!
  
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- RETIREDUSAFDEFENDER
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:14am
  I say drop her and Whoopi right in the middle of Kandahar!
  
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- Agnes
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:16pm
  Good riddance to both! I never waste my time watching anything that these idiots appear in!
  
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