Joy Behar is a stand-up comic, co-host of The View, and the host of the recently-cancelled The Joy Behar Show on HLN.

Behar was born Josephina Victoria Occhiuto in Brooklyn in 1942. Her first job was teaching English to high schoolers on Long Island, but once the 1980s rolled around, Behar traded a career in education for a receptionist job at Good Morning America. Her start at ABC was rocky: she was fired after six months for being rude to callers. She then turned to stand-up and eventually landed a call-in talk show on WABC radio. In 1997, Barbara Walters spotted Behar performing at a birthday party for Milton Berle, and a few months later Behar was called in to audition for Walters's new talk show. She won a co-hosting spot on The View, and has been there ever since; she and Walters are the only original co-hosts who have managed to stick around through all the bickering.

The Joy Behar Show debuted on HLN in 2009 and ran five nights a week. Behar and her panel of guest would chat about pop culture, politics, and anything else weighing on Behar's mind. In 2011, HLN announced the show would be ending, and the time slot would be filled with old Nancy Grace episodes (ouch). Though the final episode aired in December 2011, Behar still uses The View as a venue to air her grievances and engage in intellectual debate.

Behar married Joe Behar in 1965; they divorced in 1981.The following year she met her "spousal equivalent," Steve Janowitz, and the two finally married in 2011. She has one daughter, Eve, from her first marriage. [Image via AP]