The comedian Joy Behar isn’t exactly known for her sex appeal. That’s why it came as a massive shock this week when she claimed that she was recently hit on by a man who was much younger than she is.
Behar Sounds Off
On Wednesday, Behar was the guest on The View’s companion podcast, Behind the Table. There, she told executive producer Brian Teta about a recent experience that she claimed to have while playing cards at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. According to Behar, a young man sat down to play with her and began relentlessly flirting with her.
“I was sitting in the middle there at the table, and he was on the end. He suddenly throws a $100 bill at me. Like, to play. Money!” recalled Behar, 83. “I said, ‘I don’t need your money, whoever you are, I have my own money.’ He throws it back at me again!”
Behar went on to say that she does not believe that the young man recognized her “from television.” Indeed, she doesn’t think that he had any idea that she was a public figure.
“Were you giving signals?” Teta asked. “What were you wearing? Were you tarted up for the night?”
Behar denied each of these questions.
The Situation Escalates
Behar then remembered that the young man, who she nicknamed “Joey,” told her, “when you go back and talk about me” to your family, “this is the word you should use: stud!”
Behar’s husband Steve Janowitz, who she married in 2011 after meeting him at a nudist colony decades ago, eventually walked up to the table.
“And the guy goes, ‘Who is that?’ I say, ‘That’s my husband,'” Behar recounted. “And then he says, ‘I guess we won’t be going to your room later?'”
The young man proceeded to throw a $100 bill at Behar. This did not sit well with Janowitz, however.
“Steve says, ‘Give it back to him!'” Behar stated.
Behar ended up playing cards with half of the money that Joey gave her. She ended up losing about $50 during the game. After that, Behar gave the rest of the money back to the young man.
‘What are you, my pimp?!’
“This reminds me very much of the hit ’90s movie Indecent Proposal,” Teta said in response to this story. “I think by accepting the money from him… I think you owe him a little something.”
“I owe him nothing. I owe him zero,” Behar fired back. Teta still stuck to his guns, however, saying, “You basically ordered the lobster dinner on the date.”
“First of all, what we can get from this entire conversation is that the old broad has still got it,” Behar replied. “That’s it. There’s nothing else to talk about!”
“He likes an older woman, because I could’ve been his grandmother,” she added. Behar concluded by circling back to Teta’s claim that she owed the young man something because she accepted his money: “There’s something about it. What are you, my pimp?!”
If this really did happen, perhaps the young man in question should consider getting his eyes checked. In the end, we can’t imagine someone of any age wanting to hit on Joy Behar!