Joy Behar Show Staffed By Ex-Glenn Beck Producers, Staff

Politico:

Ironically, the talking head who previously filled that time slot was Glenn Beck, who left HLN last October to become a cult hero and tea party grand pooh-bah on Fox News. (Behar kept Beck's former executive producer and much of his old staff. "I don't know if I should rat them out," she says, "but they are much more on my page than Glenn Beck's.")

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Comments

[Artemis34]

10:42 PM on 11/04/2009

I'd say that Joy is a liberal. The more liberals we have on TV the better.

[Artemis34]

10:37 PM on 11/04/2009

Now that is karma for you! The Beck folks have to work for Joy. :-)

[BonzaSheila]

03:21 PM on 11/04/2009

I've never watched an episode of The View, and never intend to do so. However, I have seen her new show a couple of times on HLN (only on the 9PM west coast repeat: the 6 o'clock hour belongs to Rachel Maddow .) Behar's heart in in the right place; she is entertaining enough, and seems proficient at interviewing other entertainers, but she drops the ball when it comes to political issues - she seems embarrassingly ill-informed, and inept at verbally defending herself against the likes of Ann Coulter. If she can't do her homework, she should stick to interviewing other comedians.

[rblaquinta]

11:42 AM on 11/05/2009

I totally agree..

[ediva75]

02:17 PM on 11/04/2009

I caught a rerun of her show one Sun night. It's not bad but she overall gets clobbered in the ratings weeknights and places at the bottom of everyone else.

[Artemis34]

10:46 PM on 11/04/2009

No. 4 ain't bad for a new show!

Larry King Live at 9pmET is often the top show on CNN each night, but last night it tied HLN’s Joy Behar for 3rd in the A25-54 demographic, behind FNC and MSNBC. King’s show was 3rd and Behar’s 4th in total viewers.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/larry-king-drops-to-tie-with-joy-behar-in-demo/

[rblaquinta]

12:02 PM on 11/04/2009

I watch the view and joy behar along with the rest are so uninformed and wah, wah ,wah its really laughable.
I would not watch her...

[Artemis34]

10:38 PM on 11/04/2009

You found the work of a comedian "laughable." I'm sure she'd be pleased.

[AlaskanWannaB]

04:33 AM on 11/04/2009

I love Joy Behar, but her show is boooring. It's a matter of time before it will be off the air unless she changes some things. She is not a great interviewer. Love her on The View, though.

[zenmonkman]

06:09 PM on 11/04/2009

The concept of "let's have coffee while our husbands are at work" mental pedigree attempts to capture the "woman at home watching with intelligence TV demographic" ... hey if I read a headline and can talk about it while telling you what a "beautiful dress you're wearing" ... then I win the time slot ... ugh!

[Muggersmom]

03:23 AM on 11/04/2009

I wondered why there was some Obama bashing going on, hmm!!Won't be watching this any longer...........

[M3Man]

03:11 AM on 11/04/2009

I'd say its more about having a job and paying the mortgage. I'll bet most of those folks were at CNN long before Beck, and were simply assigned to his show. If they were Beck's people, he would have taken them with him. Considering how much Fox pays him, they could have easily absorbed the salaries of a few underlings.

Now, if they could only find a new host for the poor schlubs stuck doing Lou Dobb's show.

[JScott]

01:49 AM on 11/04/2009

Behar the modern news culture’s Edward R. Murrow.

Hey it's Edwina R. Murrow!

And folks if you don't have such a short memory she had a 'Joy Behar Show' on Lifetime a while back

(as an aside even Joan Rivers had a talk show way before her Fox one-it was called 'That Show' around the time of the TV Show 'That Girl')

[SuesW]

11:30 PM on 11/03/2009

This is hardly a surprise, these people just do what will make them the most money, it's not like any of them beleive half the stuff they put on air - same goes for the people working behind the scenes on his new show - it's just a show to them ... and a pay cheque

[Sardonica]

04:02 AM on 11/04/2009

"it's not like any of them believe half the stuff they put on the air"

I don't work in the environment, so I don't know if it's actually true or not - - but if it is, it would help explain why our political culture is so screwed up. We're being lied to constantly - from all sides. It would really simplify things if everyone would just stop the BS spin and just honestly say what's on their mind. I know I'm living in a dream world.

[Imzadi]

06:24 AM on 11/04/2009

And health care insurance...

[balancedsolution]

10:57 PM on 11/03/2009

oh how ironic.

who gives a ****!

[progressivelady]

09:51 PM on 11/03/2009

I never get to watch it is it anygood? her show I mean

[AlaskanWannaB]

04:34 AM on 11/04/2009

no!

[sheaintsayin]

09:47 PM on 11/03/2009

Has there been a "Eureka!" moment, yet, something announcing why this show exists?

[Artemis34]

10:41 PM on 11/04/2009

Can you explain why Larry King's show exists?

People want interviewers they can relate to and they can relate to Joy and Larry.

[mockley]

09:28 PM on 11/03/2009

I was hoping for so much more from her show....still waiting, just not hoping so much.

[tlgeiger62]

07:28 PM on 11/03/2009

They are on whoever's side gets them their paycheck!!!

[SuesW]

11:28 PM on 11/03/2009

exactly, that's what i was going to say