On Thursday’s edition of on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart interviewed comedian Joy Behar, best-known as co-host of TV’s daytime talk show The View.
Compared to this week’s other guests, Stewart’s chat with Behar marked a decided shift in tone. While the session was entertaining, with a handful of scattered laughs, it was by far the week’s least substantial. Behar was promoting her new show on cable’s HLN, The Joy Behar Show. That show debuted this past Tuesday, September 29.
Stewart introduced Behar with a funny clip from her new show featuring Victoria Gotti, daughter of notorious crime-boss John Gotti. “I’m so glad for you though, you deserve your own show,” Stewart said as Behar sat down and then implied that sharing the set on The View must be difficult at times. Replied Behar: “I have to interrupt myself now.”
The audience booed when Behar mentioned Ann Coulter; Behar interviewed the controversial conservative author and perpetual Fox News talking head during the first week of her show. “I humanize her,” Behar claimed and then compared her relationship with Coulter to a lesbian version of famous husband and wife political team James Carville and Mary Matalin.
“I love the controversy,” Behar said and then invited Stewart to be a guest on her new show. “I’m not controversial,” Stewart replied, deflecting and then redirected the conversation.
According to Behar, she’s already stirred up controversy during her first week on HLN. Conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly has labeled her a pinhead; others have called her Marxist and one Christian radio host described her as a ‘fatty boomblatty’, to which Behar speculated about what part of the Bible that came from. The full interview is embedded below.
Compared to this week’s other episodes, this edition of The Daily Show was a bit of a letdown. Correspondent John Oliver gave an amusing field report about protesters to this week’s G-20 summit in Pittsburgh (embedded below) and Stewart did a funny critique of a recent CNN story about the dangers of texting while driving. The episode's funniest moment though, was by far the moment of zen:
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