Joy Behar says she turned down role as Ted's mom in Ted Lasso season 3: 'It was too hot'

Joy Behar can dish Hot Topics on The View, but she apparently can't take the heat when it comes to potential acting gigs filming in hellish weather.

The 81-year-old revealed Wednesday on the talk show's Behind the Table podcast that she turned down the opportunity to play a part opposite Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso season 3 in the role of the titular character's mother, Dottie Lasso, which went on to score actress Becky Ann Baker an Emmy nomination.

"You were contacted about the possibility to be on my favorite show of all time," View producer Brian Teta said on the episode, before asserting that Behar "quickly dismissed" the chance to be on the Apple TV+ series.

"You were dismissive of it because it would require you to spend your hiatus in London," Teta continued, which Behar confirmed.

"It was too hot, you remember? There was a heat wave going on at that time, like, 100-degree weather, and I'd have to get on a plane and go in the middle of the heat? No," Behar said. "Listen, I'm a writer, I write my own stuff, I don't care about other people's stuff. I don't need to be in everything."

Teta again expressed his disappointment, telling Behar the series — which ended in May 2023 with its third season — was "the hottest show on TV," which the comedian quickly shut down. "It was not the hottest show on TV," she said. "If they were doing it in the spring I would've done it maybe, or in the fall, but not in the middle of the heat wave."

When Teta told Behar that Baker received an Emmy nod for her work on the series' penultimate episode, titled "Mom City," Behar wasted no time congratulating her. "Well, good for her," Behar said. "Bravo."

EW has reached out to representative for The View and Apple TV+ for comment.

Though Behar has held her post as a panelist on The View for all but two of its 27 seasons (she says she was fired and sat out for seasons 17 and 18), she's also appeared in several scripted projects throughout her career, including Madea Goes to Jail, Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, and the controversial filmmaker's maligned Amazon streaming series Crisis in Six Scenes.

Listen to Behar discuss Ted Lasso in the podcast episode above.

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