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Joy Behar made audiences laugh for decades before being tapped to join
Barbara Walters’ creation "
The View" in 1997 — now she’s the longest-running host on the chat fest and has no plans to leave! Here are 10 things you didn’t know about Joy:
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1. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1942, Joy worked as a high school English teacher before taking a gamble on entertainment.
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2. As an aspiring comedian, she was nearly hired to join the original cast of "
Saturday Night Live" in 1975.
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3. After almost dying from an ectopic pregnancy in 1979, she quit her teaching job to pursue comedy full time.
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5. In 1980, Joy began performing comedy routines in New York City clubs and played a waitress in a 'Tums' commercial.
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7. Joy gives fellow "View" co-host
Whoopi Goldberg a baked lasagna every year on her birthday.
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8. French film lover Joy once followed screen beauty
Catherine Deneuve around backstage so much, the actress asked, “Is she a lesbian?”
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10. Joy voiced Eunice the ground sloth in the 2012 animated comedy "Ice Age: Continental Drift."
