Joy Behar is best known as a quick-witted, tell-it-like-it-is stand-up comedian and longtime cohost of the popular ABC daytime talk show “The View,” for which she received an Emmy Award for outstanding talk show hostin 2009. But she’s also a playwright who has written four comedic plays, the most recent of which, “My First Ex-Husband,” is coming to the Calderwood Pavilion for 12 performances from Sept. 12–28, following a successful off-Broadway run in New York City.
The Brooklyn native splits her time between New York City and the Hamptons with her husband, retired teacher Steve Janowitz, and said she loves Boston. “It’s my second-favorite city. … It’s like a smaller New York,” she said in a recent phone call.
Behar, 82, has an adult daughter from her first marriage and a 14-year-old grandson, and said she interviewed roughly 15 women about their divorces for “My First Ex-Husband.” The stories that she found the most compelling — and the funniest — made it into the show, which is composed of eight monologues presented by performers from theater, television, and film, including Behar herself, Veanne Cox, Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, and Tonya Pinkins.
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