The View resurfaces old clips of Joy Behar dancing with Beyoncé, saying 'I don’t swallow'
Published on March 04, 2026 EDT "Did you hear what you said? 'I don't swallow,'" Sara Haines asked the 81-year-old after the show played a vintage clip of Behar swallowing a sword.

The View spiced up its 6,000th episode by taking a little time to enjoy the view of a stunned Joy Behar reacting to resurfaced old clips of herself engaging in some wild activities on the program across the last 27 years.

"We're seeing if the OG cohost — I'll give you one guess: Joy — can keep track of what she did and didn't do with a game of Let's ReView," Sara Haines introduced on Friday, after the show returned from a commercial break during the commemorative episode.

Haines then kicked off the quiz, asking Behar, "Did you shake your hips with Shakira, or booty-roll with Beyoncé?" Behar admitted that she didn't know the answer, telling her cohosts, "I think I might've shaken my hips with Shakira, or maybe I shook my hips with Beyoncé."

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The show then cut to a clip dated June 27, 2003, in which Beyoncé stood next to Behar and told her, "You have to suck the tummy in and just roll," and Behar complied.

When The View cut back to the current table of cohosts, Ana Navarro quipped, "Don't worry, Joy. This is not a cognitive test and you are not running for president." She then reacted with confusion to Sunny Hostin's question about her recollection of being "ravaged" by a "Hollywood hunk," and appeared to not know the identity of an actor climbing on top of her in a clip dated Oct. 16, 2006 (it was Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon).

Navarro then segued into footage from Aug. 13, 1999, asking Behar, "Did you learn the skill of sword-swallowing, or did you practice the art of fire-walking?" Behar was again confused by the question, admitting that she thought she fire-walked with Bill O'Reilly, but the subsequent clip proved otherwise.

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"I'm not going to put that filthy thing in mouth. I don't swallow," Behar said in the vintage clip. When the show returned, Haines asked her cohost, "Did you hear what you said? 'I don't swallow.'"

Elsewhere on The View's 6,000th episode, Behar honored the occasion with another tradition, when her cell phone went off during the live telecast.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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