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With Hollywood's' penchants for remakes, they
may want to consider a remake of Barbra Streisand's Funny Lady (1975) about
Fanny Brice and Billy Rose. Joy Behar would fit the role perfectly.
After marrying and divorcing Joe Behar, Joy gave up her teaching career to
be a stand-up comic, and parlayed her sharp tongue and wit to earn an
occasional spot of TV's The View in 1997 after Barbara Walters
saw Joy's performance at Milton Berle’s 89th birthday tribute. Soon she was
promoted to be one of the hosts as was predicted in the Bible in Psalm 30:5
Joy's' acerbic wit on The View started to make headlines especially when directed to one of her then co hosts, Star Jones. One of their most memorable exchanges occurred when Star began go on and on about her recent breast implants, and Joy cut her off stating , "OK, Star. That's enough about you. On to us. Bye. Keep your [breasts] perky!" Star shot back "Even today, you are still a bitch," before ABC censors cut the feed. Jones eventually walked off The View in a huff. Joy's fans love her in-the-face interview style. When Joy interviewed some the horn dog boys of MTV's Jersey Shore, she asked them “Do you use condoms?” When they answered "Yes," she pursued her safe-sex advocacy further with “And in the hot tub? Because, you know, the, uh, thing can come off in the hot tub.” She soon began to be a popular fill-in guest host on CNN's Larry King Show. With her constant high ratings, CNN offered her her own nightly show on HNN, eponymously titled The Joy Behar Show, in the same time slot as Larry's. Joy soon began to occasionally beat Larry in the ratings. So her fans had Joy in the morning and Joy at night . Joy's fuedette with Star came full circle when Star appeared on The Joy Behar Show in April 2011 to promote her book Satan's Sisters about fictional TV talk show "The Lunch Club," obviously patterned after the The View in which Star's doppelganger Maxine thinks to herself: "It was time to let these privileged bitches know how their croissants were buttered every friggin' morning." So to help celebrate this funny lady's
birthday, we could have taken Star's suggestion and made some croissants,
but instead we followed "Weird
Al" Yankovic's musical
advice. |
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Sometimes you feel like a nut Sometimes you don't Almond Joy's got nuts Mounds don't |
and make an Almond Joy Cheesecake. While you
are enjoying the joyful dessert, you can watch Joy in her favorite film role as
Marilyn in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) unless some
savvy Hollywood producer takes our advice and casts
Joy in a new production of Funny Lady. Possibly
"Weird Al"
Yankovic could play the Billy Rose role.
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Serves 12
© 2011 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes