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The View: Behind the Table

Debbie Matenopoulos & Joy Behar

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Tv & Film

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Debbie Matenopoulos and Joy Behar were both original co-hosts and helped launch “The View” with Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira, and Star Jones in 1997. This week on “Behind the Table,” Debbie shares about getting the job at 22 years old and they look back on how it all started when they auditioned together for the show. Debbie also discusses what it was like when “Saturday Night Live” started doing parodies of her and she tells Joy how she really felt when she was let go after one season. Listen to "The View" weekdays on your favorite podcast app! Just search for "The View" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. For more: https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/the-view Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey, it's Wippy. As the view celebrates its 25th season,

0:36.7

we're continuing our special podcast series. Today, Joy talks to Debbie Matt Nantles.

0:42.7

Here's Joy. Debbie and I are both original co-hosts and we both helped launch this show with

0:48.4

Barbara Walters, Meredith Eira and Star Jones in 1997. Today, we talk about how Debbie got the

0:55.4

job at just 22 years old, what it was like when Saturday Night Live started doing parodies of us

1:01.0

and how Debbie really felt when she was let go after one season. Here's our conversation.

1:08.9

I've missed you, Joy Behar. So, do you remember the audition that we did at the Essex House?

1:14.5

It was you, Meredith and Star and Barbara. We were the OGs. She was really watching. She was not

1:23.1

really in it. Oh, wait a second. No, that first group that sat down, she sat down with us and then

1:28.7

she didn't sit with the rest of the groups. Then she left. Remember, we never got offended and said,

1:33.1

yeah, everyone got offended and they thought it was fixed because what she likes that group right

1:38.5

away. Yeah, and then she got up and left and all the other people were like, why isn't Barbara

1:43.2

sitting with us? Who are those ladies? Why do they have like a leg up on us? Well, she liked

1:48.0

you because one of the reasons she liked you was because you imitated your Greek mother. She was

1:52.8

obsessed with that. That was the only reason that you got the job. If you want my opinion, Debbie,

1:59.0

I swear. And the fact that you were very cute and bubbly and young. But it was your mother's,

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