 Joy Behar is among today's leading comic talents. She is seen everyday by millions on ABC Television's hit program, The View. Whether mixing with the audience or interviewing politicians and artists, she dives into absurd juxtapositions, her aim being not to sneer, but to uncloset absurdities-- especially those perpetrated by big guys on little ones. With a voice that sounds, as she says, "like I have Jimmy Hoffa in the back of my throat," she strips the varnish off pretensions. Armed with an M.A. in English Education from Stony Brook University , Behar originally entered the teaching field. She then set out to pursue comedy professionally and began to be booked at famous New York clubs such as Catch a Rising Star and Caroline's. Behar went on to win three MAC Awards and a CableACE Award. On television, Behar starred in her own HBO cable special and was a regular on the series Baby Boom, as well as the pilot for The Rock where she played a teacher in a school not unlike the one she left when trying her luck in show business. Other appearances include the voice of a hilariously neurotic patient on Dr. Katz for which she won the CableACE Award. Ms. Behar is also a frequent guest on the critically acclaimed Politically Incorrect. Joy has served as correspondent for Comedy Central, covering the Democratic National Convention, and had an extremely popular call-in radio show on WABC for three years where she discussed politics with a deadly humorous bent. Behar has appeared in such movies as Cookie, Love Is All There Is, Nora Ephron's This is My Life and Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery. Behar recently completed a successful run of the Off-Broadway hit, The Food Chain, for which she earned rave reviews in the starring role. Her last Broadway appearance was in Alexander H. Cohen's production of Comedy Tonight with Mort Sahl and Dorothy Loudon.
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