Joy Behar Begrudgingly Celebrates 81st Birthday on The View: ‘I’m Just Glad I’m Alive, Okay?’

Joy Behar is celebrating her 81st birthday early with the help of her family View!

The day before he turns 81 on Saturday, ViewAudience members and co-hosts started cheering for Behar from the moment she took the stage. Fans stood and cheered as the upbeat music played. There was also a large inscription “Happy birthday, joys” hanging in the back.

But Behar seemed miserable the whole time. “It’s Joy’s birthday,” co-host Sara Haines said as everyone clapped even more.

Behar then buried her head in her hands saying, “Oh, my God!”

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Joy Behar was pictured on ‘The View’ on October 6, 2023.

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“I know you hate talking about your birthday,” Ana Navarro interjected. “But, ‘Today is your birthday!'”

While Behar suggested everyone “just put on a show,” Sunny Hostin noted that Behar “doesn’t look excited.”

“I can’t get excited. I’m just happy to be alive, okay?” Behar added. “You know, you get to the point where you wake up in the morning going, ‘I’m still here, my God!'”

(L-R) Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farrah Griffin on ‘The View’.

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Behar’s birthday was mentioned several times during the hour-long program. Guest Anne Hathaway showered her with flowers, while Haines, Navarro, Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin later sold the birthday girl’s personal items for charity in an impromptu ‘sale’ — Behar’s favorite.

The episode ended with celebratory cannolis for the audience and a cannoli cake for the co-hosts from Venier’s Patisserie. “They’ve been around since the year I was born, 1894!” Behar joked. “Check them out because they deliver nationwide and I don’t want to be the only one enjoying it today. Cannoli cream is the best!”

Joy Behar on ‘The View’.

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Last year, as she approached her milestone 80th birthday, Behar told PEOPLE that she has no intention of slowing down her career as she enters a new decade of life.

“I just signed a contract so I’ll be here for a while,” she said. – I don’t plan to retire.

“It’s really, you know, something that’s an important show in a lot of ways,” she said specifically of the daytime talk show. “Sometimes I don’t believe it, because I’ve been here since the beginning, but we are the most watched show during the day. The most watched!”

Behar concluded, “I’m happy to be a part of it. So no, I’m not going anywhere. I’m having a good time.”

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when she celebrated her 80th birthday View last year, the commentator wore the same chocolate brown suit she wore on the talk show 18 years ago in 2004. Behar explained that she kept the designer ensemble in her closet because it still “sparks joy.”

“I thought you stole that suit from my closet—’cause now Joy’s stealing my clothes!” Navarro said then. “But I wanted to ask you, do you feel better today or 20 years ago?”

While Hostin marveled at how her co-host looked “exactly the same,” Behar disagreed, saying, “I look younger.”

But otherwise, not much has changed, Behar said. “I’m a little grumpy. I’m more annoyed by the sounds,” she thought. “I’ve always been a bit grumpy, that’s my personality. I believe negativity is funny, honestly. Positivity isn’t funny.”

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In the April 2020 episode of the series Viewthe comedian, who has been with the series since its premiere in 1997, denied rumors that she is considering retirement and shared that she has no plans to give up her show.

“They keep saying that I’m going to leave the show, but I’m not leaving the show. Rumors of my retirement have been greatly exaggerated,” she said.

“Here’s the thing, what am I going to do? This pandemic has changed the game!” she joked, referring to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. “At some point you think, ‘God, I could retire and go on a cruise around the world.’ I won’t even watch reruns of The Love Boat at this point. So where will I go? What to do? I have to be on television.”

Joy Behar was featured on ‘The View’. Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty

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Behar also teased that her conservative rivals need her to continue supporting liberal ideas.

“Let’s not forget that I employ right-wing media,” she said. “I’m opening a job at Breitbart. Everything I say appears on Breitbart! I don’t see how I could leave!”

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