“Sometimes I think there’s maybe a different audience that comes for a guest,” Brian Teta said. “Sometimes the energy is a little bit different.”

Joy Behar calls out *The View *producer over ‘problem’ with studio audience: ‘You need to correct that’

"Sometimes I think there's maybe a different audience that comes for a guest," Brian Teta said. "Sometimes the energy is a little bit different."

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- Joy Behar called out producer Brian Teta on *The View*'s companion podcast, *Behind the Table.*

- Teta pointed out that sometimes the show's audience shows up for the celebrity guests, not the cohosts.

- Behar called this a "problem" and urged Teta "to correct that" in the future.

Comedian Joy Behar doesn't want to risk bombing in front of an audience she didn't court for herself, according to her appearance on *The View*'s companion podcast *Behind the Table*.

The 83-year-old talk show hostess and playwright appeared Tuesday on the audio show, where producer Brian Teta inquired about how she navigates different audience types when making jokes at the Hot Topics table.

"What about when you're doing the show here? Does it feel like stand-up, when you're getting a big laugh here?" Teta asked.

Brian Teta; Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View'.

"No. Well, it's nice, it feels good to get a big laugh. Today's audience was great. I can only be as funny as the audience allows me to be," Behar replied, referencing the energy in the show's Manhattan studio that gathered to see guests Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer.

Teta recalled that Behar "said it felt a little cheap, they were laughing so hard at everything you said," during the day's commercial break.

He then said he felt that "a lot of times, it feels like the audience — and I don't have any data for this — it feels like a lot of people come for the guests occasionally." Teta elaborated, saying that "sometimes, that's great," but "sometimes I think there's maybe a different audience that comes for a guest, if it's somebody who's from a different world than our show is."

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Behar asked if he meant audience members who disagree politically with the show's left-leaning cohosts, though Teta explained that he didn't necessarily mean that sensed a political divide in audience members.

He said that it's more "if it's someone for, like, let's say it's a comic book movie, and everyone's here because they love the guy here playing the new superhero, and they've never seen our show before, they're waiting for this guy to come out for the whole thing. That doesn't work in the same way."

'The View' cohosts.

Behar cut in to quip, "Yeah, that's a problem," she said. "You need to correct that."

Still, Teta told Behar, "We've got plenty of dedicated *View* fans that come here every day. I got recognized on the subway this morning!" Without missing a beat, Behar took her producer down a peg, asking, "Really? By your wife?"

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*The View* cohosts have had many memorable exchanges with audiences in recent years, ranging from moderator Whoopi Goldberg advising studio attendees to pipe down while the cohosts attempted to interview guests, to the *Ghost* actress getting up from her seat to scold a man who was recording the broadcast on his phone.

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC. Listen to *Behind the Table *above.

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