In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the Jan. 14 episode of 'Finding My Roots', Joy Behar discovered just how close her family ...

“The View” co-host, 82, revealed that her birth name — Josephine Victoria “Joy” Behar — is an homage to her Italian grandmother, who once threatened to kill herself and her own children.

On Tuesday’s edition of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., the theme was Italian heritage week as both The View ...

: Susan Lucci, Judy Gold, Tonya Pinkins and Jackie Hoffman are among the additional performers who will take part in Joy Behar’s upcoming Off Broadway comedic play My First Ex-Husband. As previously ...

Joy Behar is discovering that her relatives were a lot closer than she thought! In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the Jan. 14 episode of Finding My Roots, The View co-host, 82, learns that her ...

I'm going to kill myself and the children.' Of which, there were three." Behar confirmed, "that is who I am named after," before noting that her grandfather on her mother's side is the one who ...