Nick Step
Joy Behar kicked off her new
Current TV show Say Anything! with an
in depth interview with her new boss, Al Gore. The new show is certain to focus
a lot on heavy duty political topics, like voter suppression, given the nature
of her personal liberal leanings and that of the cable station itself. But Joy
will also be covering a lot of pop culture topics, too. Fully primed to cover a
wide variety of subjects after 15 years on The
View, here are just a few items that she touched upon in a recent
conference call interview:
40 Shades Of Grey
“I thought it was kind of a
boring book to tell you the truth, and I was too tied up mostly to read it…
After the first 40 shades, it starts to really get tedious.”
The Naked Prince Harry Photos
“Oh, Rupert Murdoch said, ‘Cut
him a deal.’ Yes, well, Rupert Murdoch, of course, given this position that
he’s in right now, any kind of distraction, I guess, would be good. And any
time you can find a male member of the Royal Family that looks good naked you
should run with it.”
Controversial Subjects
“I can promise you the word
Casey Anthony will not come up… and that’s how it will be different. And also
we won’t be asking how much propofol was in Michael Jackson. Those are the
questions we will not be asking. Yes, political and social also. I have a lot
of interests. I’m not just interested in one subject. So we’re going to have a
lot of topics.”
A Serious Spin on an Old Joke
“We have a segment called the
Holy Rollers, where we’re going to have a priest, a rabbi and an imam on, where
they can discuss ethical issues of the day. It’s an interesting conversation
you don’t see very much.
On Her Three Dream Guests — Living or Dead
“Nora Ephron, Mel Brooks, President
Obama.”
On The Real Housewives
“I was talking about Gore
Vidal’s comment that whenever a friend succeeds, a little of something in me
dies. And I just did an analogy to every time one of those TV housewives writes
a book or gets another show, a little something in me dies… It was basically a
joke. I truly don’t even watch those shows, and I’ve had those women on my HLN
show. And they’re quite amusing, but it was kind of a joke. I don’t really care
about it that much.”
On Donald Trump
“Donald Trump and I have had
a rather rocky relationship, but I think that right now we’re okay with each
other. And so I will leave well enough alone. He always goes for the personal.
I told him that that he should stop doing the personal. But it doesn’t stop
him.”
Joy Behar: Say Anything! airs Mondays through Thursdays at 6
p.m. EST/5 p.m. Central on Current TV.
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