Kennedy Drops Bomb on Joy Behar: Calls Her a ‘Talking Hemorrhoid in a Wig’ After Explosive View Audition Confession

It’s the kind of headline you don’t expect to wake up to, yet somehow feels exactly right for the chaotic circus that is American daytime TV. Fox News firebrand Lisa Kennedy Montgomery — better known simply as Kennedy — has stunned Hollywood and daytime talk watchers by dragging Joy Behar into the spotlight with one of the most savage one-liners in recent memory.

In a new tell-all conversation, the former MTV VJ and current Fox News personality revealed that she once auditioned for The View. And while that revelation alone might raise eyebrows, it’s what she said about Joy Behar that has set the internet ablaze. “Joy Behar,” Kennedy declared with a smirk, “is like a talking hemorrhoid in an auburn wig.”

Those words hung in the air like smoke after a gunshot. Kennedy didn’t flinch. She didn’t soften. She said it exactly as she remembered feeling in that room, years ago, when she walked onto the set of The View hoping to become one of its co-hosts — only to walk away disgusted.

“It was like stepping into a gladiator ring,” Kennedy confessed. “Everything was staged to be louder, nastier, more combative than the last segment. You could feel the producers salivating for a catfight. I thought: is this television, or is this therapy for people who scream?”

And then came Joy. According to Kennedy, the veteran host zeroed in on her like a hawk. “She was overbearing, loud, and it felt like she needed to make every room bend to her personality. I just thought, God, this is miserable. That’s when the hemorrhoid line came to me. I never said it in the room, but I thought it.”

Now she’s said it out loud — and the reaction is nuclear.

Fans flooded Twitter with memes, some cheering Kennedy for daring to say what they’ve always suspected, others accusing her of crossing a line. “She’s not wrong,” one user wrote. “The View is a screaming match disguised as a talk show.” Another snapped back: “Joy Behar has been on that panel for over 25 years. She’s a legend. Kennedy’s just bitter.”

Experts are divided too. Media analyst Carla Torres told the Daily Mail: “Kennedy’s comments strike a nerve because The View has always been polarizing. It thrives on conflict. But calling Joy Behar a hemorrhoid? That’s theater — and theater sells.”

Former TV producer Michael Carmine put it even more bluntly: “Kennedy walked into the belly of the beast and refused to play ball. That makes her a hero to some, and a pariah to others. Either way, she just wrote herself into talk-show history.”

The story has the ring of a Hollywood morality play — a woman who could have sat at the most famous daytime table in America instead turned her back, unwilling to be part of what she calls a “shouting match in designer clothes.” Kennedy insists she has no regrets. “I knew it wasn’t for me. I don’t want to yell for a living. I want to talk, to joke, to think. The View? That’s a performance, and not the kind I wanted to give.”

And as for Joy Behar, the woman at the center of Kennedy’s verbal grenade? She has yet to respond publicly. But if history is any guide, Behar won’t stay silent for long.

For now, Kennedy is the one basking — or boiling — in the spotlight. She’s detonated a bomb under one of television’s most enduring franchises, reminding the world that behind the coffee mugs and studio applause, there’s a battlefield.

And somewhere in New York, Joy Behar might just be adjusting her auburn wig, sharpening her next comeback.