Things I Learned Watching The Joy Behar Show
Well, actually reading about it on sites such as Hot Air and Newsbusters, since like 99.5 percent of America I’ve never actually watched it (except for possibly a few minutes while trapped in an airport). But still, the good work and ingratiating tone of this breakthrough in television programming is getting out, even through osmosis:
From guest Donny Deutsch, a lesson in racial tolerance: “You almost need that blank piece of paper. That’s the new model. Like, you know, this coconut Rubio down in Florida.”
From guest Eve Ensler, author of the Vagina Monologues who evidently moonlights at the University of East Anglia, I learned that global warming causes earthquakes and tsunamis:
ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she doesn’t believe in global warming is bizarre.
BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in it.
ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to walk around the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis.
BEHAR: Right.
From Joy herself, during her day job, back in November: “Isn’t it a little racist to call it Black Friday?”
From fellow Time-Warner stablemate George Lopez, the importance of tolerating diversity in the American family model:
After introducing Lopez on her CNN Headline News program last night, Behar played a clip of Lopez’s HBO special in which he said, “There are a lot of politicians that would be Latinos and a lot now who are Latino. Sarah Palin, Latina. Believe me. She’s got all the signs. She works and her husband don’t.” [sic -- Ed] Later in the segment, after commenting about Palin’s lack of experience, Lopez stated, “I mean, the concept of Todd Palin being a stay-at-home dad-listen Joy, when I was a kid, those guys were called bums.”
“Uh-huh. They’re still called bums,” agreed Behar.
Finally, from early guest Ted Danson, who never met a customer he didn’t like as Sam Malone: “Ted Danson: Rush Limbaugh, Religious Right ‘Really Piss Me Off’.”
Back in 2008, Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote, with presumably unintended camp irony, “In our news culture, Behar, a stand-up comic by profession, looms as the new Edward R. Murrow.”
Two years later, we can easily say that Behar has delivered on that promise precisely as well as this generation’s other new Edward R. Murrow.
Update: This just in! Joy on the importance of providing medical care to everyone in America:
You know, Bill, Dick Cheney is having, he`s had his fifth heart attack today. And it`s a funny thing — it`s a funny thing about him. I mean, the most reasonable people are like, really? They don`t even care. Or I just find it interesting that he doesn’t get any sympathy from people around — around me any way.
Glad to see that Joy’s cocoon of friends, family and coworkers at CNN/Headline News and ABC are as tolerant and compassionate as the aptly named Joy herself.
Not surprised. I’ve met a ton of celebrities through my work as a journalist and Behar was, arguably, the only one I could call actively unpleasant to my fellow press reporters.
This is a sad ‘greatest hits’ package of her in action.
Joy’s the classic example of a celeb who feels uncomfortable if she’s dealing with people from anyplace more than 20 miles west of I-95 or 20 miles east of I-5. And the people at CNN who decided to put on her show are clueless enough that odds are, they’re doing this to groom Joy to eventually replace Larry King when he finally fossilizes on the main network.
I guess that I am lucky. I have enough navel lint that I will never have to watch her show.
Ed Driscoll: doing the job most Americans won’t do: watch The View.
“Ed Driscoll: doing the job most Americans won’t do: watch The View.”
No, I’d crack instantly if I had to do that. But as I said, fortunately Allahpundit at Hot Air and the guys at Newsbusters are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to transcribe the wisdom of Joy, Whoopi, Rosie, et al for the ages.
I’ve thought the term “tool” was applicable to men. Behar is proving that wrong.
Joyless Bahar is an ignorant ass. I am amazed that anything she says it taken seriously. Then again, anyone listening to her nonsense isn’t really very bright.
I just wish folks would stop calling her a standup comic… or, at the very least, she would stop identifying herself as one… or, maybe she would stop doing standup.
Todd held, until recently, two of the most dangerous jobs on the planet.
I wanna see Joy and George work oil fields or commercial fishing.
How would we tell when Larry King dies?
Joy who? Need I say more?
The only day that I watched Joy Behar was the day I was too sick to go to work. This particular day she was giving the dickens to Sarah Palin for writing a few words on her hand, so she could keep her facts straight. All the while, Joy had at the very least 10 pages of notes in front of her so she could make her nasty remarks on que.
I unintentionally caught 2 minutes of Behar’s CNN show in a bar. Dennis Leary was the guest, and he says, “As far as I’m concerned, Obama can do no wrong.”
I didn’t need to hear anymore, and I tuned it out. I think the barkeep changed the channel then to something more compatible with beer and the art of winding down.
Behar? Leary? WTF? Why does anyone think that anyone esle other than bored nematodes would want to listen to these people? As for The View, that show has set women back by decades.
God Bless and protect Dick Cheney.
Curling has better ratings.
Is Joy Behar really an idiot, or does she just play one on the TV?
“Is Joy Behar really an idiot, or does she just play one on the TV?”
She is so convincing and effortless in the role you might suspect method acting, but having heard many of her quotes over the years it would appear that she’s just a natural. It’s a gift, really. Rosie’s got it too!
Remember High School? Remember the kids who just HAD to be the homecoming queen and just HAD to be in the big school play? The ones who made rigorous rites and sacred standards for being part of their ‘clique’?
Well now you know what happened to them. We grew up and got a life, but they still cling to that adolescent image of “how life works”.
What I find staggeringly hard to understand about these people is how they really think we care what they think. Joy Behar, a righteously funny comedian, but what she knows about politics or government or science for that matter wouldnt fill a lemurs fist.
Sarah’s husband is such a man’s man that he makes the Liberal men look like wimps. And it also just Liberals making their way through the entire Palin family, trying to destroy them one by one. It’s only telling us how mean and vicious they are; while pretending the “care” about people. They see Sarah as a threat although she’s not running for anything; also, they must have their Alinsky-target, following the late Socialist agitator in his instruction to “pick a target, isolate it, demonize it, use it!”
Only his fifth today? Well, I guess he was busy — most days he has seven or eight.
I congratulate you, Ed on your journalistic fervor and your courage.
In the Army, they call this a mission over hostile territory and you made it out alive without major injury.
Better get a CAT scan of your brain every month for a year, listening to that vacuous twit causes brain tumors.
When I look at Joy Behar with her jaw locked and that raw look perpetually squirm in that heavy duty chair, I see a woman that took Sheryl Crow’s greenie advice to heart and is still using only one sheet.
Joy Behar isn’t all bad. In fact, she actually plays a valuable role in my life: whenever I need to calm my libido down (i.e., when over served at a party on in a bar and when contemplating lowering my standards for the night and engaging in amorous activity with a young lady who would prompt a face-palm upon sobering up in the morning), I merely recite the following three words (and then I’m cured) —
Joy
Behar
Naked.
P.S. On the rare occasion that the libido stubbornly returns from the Behar-induced body blow, it can always be nuked with the following thought: threesome with Oprah and Helen Thomas.
PSGInfinity:
How would we tell when Larry King dies?
When he casts at least 3 votes in the same election.
Ignornace is curable with knowledge.
Stupidity is fatal.
Behar is a cucking funt.
period.
It’s a mistake to underestimate the sisterhood of Joy Behar; they elected Obama.
I’ve never seen her show and would never willingly do so, but I was trapped in a tire store for 2 hours with “The View” playing on the TV. I’ve never heard such a mind-numbing bunch of retarded chattering magpies in my entire life. I had my laptop but had forgotten my headphones. 2nd time I went (it was a bad January for my car) I was armed and plugged into a Mark Levin podcast with my headphones to drown out the braincell killing effluvia. Behar’s very voice is unbearable. How does anyone listen to her without killing themselves in self-defense? I don’t get it.
I had a similar experience. I was trapped in a doctor’s office last week when the View came on. Fortunately, I remembered I had an .mp3 player in my purse. I recommend the 1812 overture.