Joy Behar.Photo: Lou Rocco/Getty
Joy Beharhas no regrets when it comes to her time onThe View— not even when she was briefly fired from her role in 2013.
In a new interview withTIME, the 79-year-old comedian opened up about serving as a panelist on the daytime talk show from its launch in 1997 until 2013, and again in 2015 until present day.
Speaking about her temporary firing in 2013, Behar said of the incident: “I was glad to be fired. I basically was sick of the show at that point for some reason, I don’t even remember why.”
“They don’t like it that I’m a powerful person onThe View,saying things that they don’t like, but I’m sorry, that is where I’m at,” she continued. “I’m a powerful person onThe View;I was a powerful person as a comedian holding a microphone. Too bad.”
It’s that unbothered attitude that Behar says has kept her going, even as she approaches her 80th birthday.
“I’m sort of on extra time now. I don’t have to work. I don’t have to be on television,” she toldTIME. “I don’t have to have the microphone. They want to give it to me, I’ll take it.”
The View cast.Robert Ascroft/ABC
As for whether or not she’ll miss the fame when her time onThe Viewinevitably comes to an end, Behar told the outlet, “Not really. You know what they say — the show must go off.”
For her part on the show, Behar has been involved in her fair share of heated debates and controversy. And as she recently recalled, her termination in 2013 wasn’t the only time that she faced a possible firing on the show.
DuringBehind the Table: A View Reunion, which began streaming on Hulu last month, Beharrecalled how Walters, 92, nearly fired herfor accidentally leaking the news thatRosie O’Donnellwould be joining the talk show in 2006.
Per her recollection, Behar said Walters told her, “Joy Behar did that. And I want you to know that I’m not renewing your contract.”
“‘You’re a loose cannon, and I’m not renewing your contract,'” Behar recalled of Walters’ reaction. “I said, ‘Barbara, come on! It’s like, no big deal here.'”
She further relayed that Walters told her “No!” before hanging up the phone. “For a minute, I was stunned,” Behar continued. “I was like, ‘Really? For that?'”
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Despiteoccasionswhere Behar has been called on tomake an apologyfor her words or actions, shepreviously told PEOPLE she has no plans to changewho she is.
“I’ve gotten in trouble a few times on the show,” she said ahead of the show’s 23rd season. “I’ve had to apologize, which I’m happy to do in order to save mine and everybody else’s job. I don’t care. Even if I don’t mean it, I’ll do it. Even if I look like I’m in a hostage takeover, I’ll still do it, because if you don’t do it, you lose your job and everybody else’s.”
“My comedy has never been vicious or mean because my intent is just to make you laugh. That’s all. I don’t have any other motive,” she added. “And so if the intention is in the right, and your heart is in the right place, I think that you can never really go wrong. I’ve offended people for sure, but whatever.”
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source: people.com
