Joy Behar Makes Subtle Dig At ‘Hacks’ Star Hannah Einbinder On ‘The View’: “Good For You, You Didn’t Change Your Name”

Joy Behar and her View co-stars welcomed a special guest to the show this morning with Hacks star Hannah Einbinder. But even though she was sharing the table with a fellow comedian, Behar didn’t go easy on her guest.

After chatting about the latest season of Hacks and Einbinder’s new comedy special Everything Must Go, Behar closed out the segment with a subtle dig at Einbinder’s mouthful of a name.

“Our thanks to Hannah … Einbinder!” she said, before quipping, “Good for you, you didn’t change your name.”

The line got a laugh out of Einbinder, who learned this morning that she and Behar have a few things in common — including both getting their start in stand-up comedy out of desperation.

On this morning’s episode, Einbinder opened up about her first stand-up performance, which she gave when she was still a college student.

“I don’t know if it was necessarily confidence,” she said. “I would say more so desperation.”

Einbinder continued, “I feel like growing up in just my early 20s, I really struggled with low self-esteem and making people laugh gave me this validation. It kind of made me feel valuable to other people. So I feel like I was very desperate for that thing. That’s probably what pushed me to the stage.”

Behar chimed in to say she could “relate” to that, revealing that she was almost 40 years old when she started in comedy because she “needed money.”

However, stand-up comedy doesn’t exactly pay the bills when one is just starting. Behar said she would get paid “$20” and have to drive to New Jersey “in the middle of the night with no GPS” for her gigs.

She added, “That made me put my ego aside and just go for it. Because when you’re desperate, you need something.”

The duo also talked about being women in an industry that was largely dominated by men.

“When I started, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, there was one club in the Village that had only women on Thursday night,” Behar said. “It was a long time ago. And it was so liberating, in a way.”

She continued, “Later on, I had to follow Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield. That was tough. But when you’re amongst your sisters, there was something so liberating about having just women around.”

While Einbinder said she “appreciate[s]” that sort of effort, she also noted that the world should “be in a place where we don’t need” separate nights for men and women.

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.