The View may be missing one of its key co-hosts, but the show brought in an “OG,” as Whoopi Goldberg put it, to make up for ...

Joy Behar had to remind everyone that The View is a “family show” in a recent episode ... Subscribe to our Daytime TV newsletter! Get updates on the latest posts and more from Monsters ...

But on the most recent episode of the show’s official Behind the Table podcast, Behar told host and The View executive producer Brian Teta that her agent initially advised her not to take the gig.

Behar went on to co-host the daytime show longer than any other ... who had been a regular on NBC’s short-lived TV adaptation of the 1987 film Baby Boom in the late ’80s, recalled.