Joy Behar is happy to host — as long as guests can follow certain guidelines.
Host Brian Teta asked her about her feelings about houseguest etiquette on Thursday’s episode of the podcast View: behind the table, Behar laid out his nonsensical conditions for staying with her.
“I like it [house guests] but for a limited time,” she explains, noting that “I used to have a 24-hour rule that I would tell people.”
I used to be able to afford a housekeeper at all, but I had this little house somewhere, I would say bring your own sheets and towels and take them home with you because I don’t do your laundry, the talk show host said, apparently referring to friends staying over in a facility that is not her primary residence.
Another rule for Behar is establishing hard outs.
“I’m strict about it and I have no problem saying, ‘So you come in on Friday and you leave on Sunday, right?’
The aunt suggests that she can afford to be so honest because of her no-nonsense public persona, but Behar disagrees.
“Not because I’m Joy Behar, because it’s true!” she says. “Do you think anyone wants to live with that kind of ambiguity? When should I leave? Do they want me here?”
Teta suggests that many hosts allow departure times to be vague so as not to offend their guests, but Behar says that prospect is “not for me.”
She even shares a slightly more delicate way to find out when guests will be leaving than asking directly: “There are ways to say it. ‘When does the bus leave?’ for example,” she jokes.
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She concludes by saying that her hosting prowess simply has its limits: “I also don’t really feel like cooking for a bunch of people. I don’t run an Airbnb, okay?”
The aunt seemingly brought up the topic of guests overstaying their welcome in light of a story that went viral this week.
In a post shared on Reddit, the anonymous new mom wrote that her husband’s parents, who live abroad, had come for an extended two-month visit and that she had asked them to “stay somewhere else.”
The story made headlines, with most commentators expressing their support for the woman who drew the line.
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