Crisis in Six Scenes. Personal life Behar married college professor Joe Behar in 1965. They divorced in 1981. They have one daughter, Eve Behar Scotti. Behar has a grandson named Luca. Behar began to date Steve Janowitz in 1982; they married in 2011. Behar resides in The Hamptons. She also owns a home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She is a Democrat. Filmography Film Television Stage Bibliography Behar has authored several books, including several children's books: The Great Gasbag: An A–Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World (2017) Sheetzucacapoopoo 2: Max Goes to the Dogs (2009) When You Need a Lift: But Don't Want to Eat Chocolate, Pay a Shrink, or Drink a Bottle of Gin (2007) Sheetzu Caca Poopoo: My Kind of Dog (2006) Joy Shtick: Or What Is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come with Attachments (1999) Awards and nominations See also Broadcast journalism New Yorkers in journalism References Further reading External links ABC News: Joy Behar on Faith Part One ABC News: Joy Behar on Faith Part Two |- Living people American television talk show hosts Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host winners Current TV people American stand-up comedians American women comedians Comedians from New York City American film actresses American voice actresses Actresses from New York City 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses American women television journalists American television news anchors American television reporters and correspondents Journalists from New York City CNN people American children's writers Writers from Brooklyn 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American essayists New York (state) Democrats American agnostics Schoolteachers from New York (state) Queens College, City University of New York alumni Stony Brook University alumni Washington Irving High School (New York City) alumni American writers of Italian descent People from Lindenhurst, New York People from Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1942 births