The comedian explained that she doesn’t “remember half the people” who have been on “The View” over the years.

Joy Behar in New York in 2025; Steven Spielberg in Hollywood in 2025.Credit: Dia Dipasupil/Getty; Jerod Harris/Getty

Steven Spielberg? Joy Behar doesn’t know him.

During Tuesday’s episode of The View, the 70-year-old comedian recalled an incident in which she reintroduced herself to the Jurassic Park filmmaker only for him to notify her that they’d previously met on one of her television programs. The awkward anecdote came up as part of a conversation about how Dakota Johnson completely forgot the first time that she’d met her Materialists costar, Pedro Pascal.

“I don’t even remember who’s been on this show,” Behar remarked, before turning to Sara Haines and jokingly adding, “Who are you again?”

Joy Behar on ‘The View’.ABC

That extends to the show’s guests, too. “I was at this party and I was talking to people and I said, ‘It’s so nice to meet you. Very nice to meet you,” Behar recalled. “And the person said to me, ‘I was on your show.’ I said, ‘Oh, really? You were?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ You know who it was? Steven Spielberg.”

Her cohosts Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Haines — the latter of whom appeared to be fixing a problem with Behar’s mic pack — all let out audible gasps over the casual name drop.

“Joy, that story was good until that part,” Haines remarked, while Hostin lightly scolded her with a little: “Joy Behar!”

Behar remained unfazed throughout her retelling, adding, “I did not remember him.”

And, honestly, she has a reasonable explanation for why she didn’t make the connection. “Here’s the thing, when you’re on the show, you don’t remember,” Behar explained. “When you’re watching the show, you remember it better. We’re in the moment — I don’t remember half the people who have been here.”

While Behar did not reveal which of her many talk show programs was the one she met Spielberg on, the director previously visited The View in 2016 for a conversation with Goldberg about their 1985 film, The Color Purple.

Haines admitted that she’d had a similar issue happen recently. “Remember when I got obsessed with a new show — I won’t mention it — but I said, ‘Oh, I’ve never seen this before.’ And they’re like, ‘It’s 10 years old. They were on our show.’ I was like, ‘I definitely was not in that segment,’” she said. “He pulls it up and for some reason you guys [Behar and Whoopi Goldberg] were out and I was moderating it!”

Behar responded, “You’re in the moment, that’s why.

Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin on ‘The View’.ABC

Goldberg wrapped up the segment by reminding viewers that to err is very much human — even if it means you sometimes forget ever meeting a three-time Academy Award winner.

“You can’t do everything for everybody all the time. Sometimes stuff just goes wrong. It doesn’t always work,” the moderator said. “But it’s okay! It doesn’t mean you don’t care, it doesn’t mean that you’re not trying to do it right, nobody wants to make mistakes. But, you know, we would be Jesus if we didn’t!”

The View airs weekdays on ABC.