“This group doesn’t fight a lot,” Behar revealed.

‘The View’ cohosts Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Whoopi Goldberg.

Joy Behar reflected on her revolving door of colleagues since joining The View in 1997.
The comedian revealed on the Behind the Table podcast that the current cast has the “least animosity” toward each other.
She called past cohosts “bad” to work with.

Joy Behar is taking a little time to enjoy the view of past cohosts on The View whom she apparently didn’t, uh, enjoy that much.

The 82-year-old comedian and My First Ex-Husband playwright recently reflected on her revolving door of colleagues over the years since she joined the long-running talk show alongside Barbara Walters, Star Jones, Debbie Matenopoulos, and Meredith Vieira in 1997.

Behar admitted on Tuesday’s Behind the Table podcast with View producer Brian Teta that she has experienced a few cohosts who haven’t been the easiest to work with.

“[Jones] often comes back, the originals come back, from time to time,” Teta said of Jones’ recent appearance on the show. “She said all View hosts are allowed to talk about each other, but if someone else tries to say something negative, you protect each other. Do you agree that there’s a sisterhood of View hosts? Not that you all get along and are best friends, but I do feel like it’s something that nobody understands unless you’ve done this job.”

Behar said the sentiment felt true to her.

“If someone starts to attack one of us, I will defend. It’s the family — never talk outside the family. The Godfather. Is that how the line goes?” she asked. “It’s one thing for us to have our own critiques amongst ourselves.”

Teta quickly jumped in to note, “Lord knows we have them!”

Behar continued, admitting that the current cast “doesn’t fight a lot” and that this group is “very, very amiable with each other” compared to other panels she’s been part of on The View.

Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Joy Behar, Lisa Ling, and Barbara Walters on ‘The View’ in 1999.Steve Fenn/ABC/Courtesy Everett

“I’ve been here many years now, and I know a lot of different groups. This group is the least… what’s the word I’m looking for…? They have the least animosity,” Behar explained. “Some years they’ve been bad.”

Teta gave a knowing reply, sarcastically telling Behar, “I can’t imagine what you’re talking about,” which made her laugh before they moved on to discuss a different topic. (Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for The View for comment.)

The moment recalled current panelist Sara Haines’ December 2023 admission that an unnamed former cohost made the cast “uncomfortable” during her tenure.

When comedian and actor Matt Rogers sat down for an interview on Behind the Table at the time, he told Teta that he thought the show made the right move in replacing Meghan McCain’s vacant conservative seat with Alyssa Farah Griffin when the show returned for a new season in 2022.

“I really like that the conversations can be had, and without anyone — and I’m not going to name any names — without getting super defensive or personal, so that when you’re watching it, you don’t feel in a state of anxiety or discomfort,” Rogers said, though he didn’t reference McCain specifically.

While Rogers spoke, Haines jumped in to say “uncomfortable” was the word he was looking for, while Rogers added that he stopped tuning in to the show because of the former dynamic at the Hot Topics table.

Later, in a May 2024 interview with EW, cohost Sunny Hostin responded to a question about McCain unfollowing her on Instagram, indicating that she had no idea that had happened.

“I didn’t know,” Hostin told EW at the time with a laugh. “I didn’t know anything happened. I’m not on social media like that. I guess I’ll give her a call. Maybe she broke up with me and I don’t know it. I don’t know what to say. I don’t think anything happened!”

Since her departure, McCain has long criticized the talk show, going as far as to call the panelists “crazy old people” who she thinks bully and verbally abuse her. (EW reached out to The View for comment at the time.)