Yes, she gets to gossip about “The View” and its participants, including Barbara Walters. Bitchiness is delightfully wrapped in humor. But mostly this is a performance about the trajectory of Behar’s life, which she reviews in marvelously comedic terms.

Behar affectionately makes fun of her Italian family and growing up in Brooklyn. She notes that she is often mistaken for being Jewish. Someone informed Woody Allen, she says, that she was not Jewish, and Allen is said to have replied, “Has anyone told her?”

In spreading the laughs, she chats about what it was like in her youth and describes her instinctive rebellion against the expected life of a woman to only be a wife and mother. Showing a projected bleak scene of the Long Island Expressway with her exit, 60, she makes it clear that could have been a dead end for her life if she didn’t also seek more for herself after she was first married and busy raising a child.

Citing a number of thwarted professional starts in seeking an entertainment career, she traces her path to standup comedy and being discovered, which was anything but easy. Always the reports come not only with punch lines but with hilarious descriptions. And Behar is expert at congenially establishing close relationships with an audience, as if she is letting everyone into her confidence. Bio with laughs—that’s the steady combination.

Giving an example of many, she describes a crush on one of the celebrities she has interviewed, the glamorous French actress Catherine Deneuve. Behar is still flabbergasted at the response she received when having asked Deneuve if she had any regrets about her life and the actress rattled off a whole list. Regrets? Behar flashes projected pictures of Deneuve’s beauty and what others might envy, including a photo of handsome Marcello Mastroianni, who was Deneuve’s lover. Then comes the contrast, pictures of Behar’s aunt accompanied by funny comments about her aunt’s humdrum life and a picture of her husband (hardly Mastroianni), but reporting that when she asked her aunt whether she had regrets, she replied that she had none at all. It is an uproariously funny segment.

Behar also has the audience in stitches with her take on the famed incident of Lorena Bobbitt—the woman who lopped off her husband’s penis, got in a car, drove some distance and threw the penis out a window into a field. Behar comically points out how long it took to hunt down Osama bin Laden, but that it only took cops two hours to find the penis. She expertly builds the story and descriptions with uproarious detail.