We’re number four! We’re number four! We’re number four!

Joy Behar brings her viewers intelligent conversation and cleavage. OK, cleavage.

According to the Huffington Post, The Joy Behar show is “on a roll.” In the Land of Huffpo, a roll is apparently defined as finishing fourth in its 9 pm time slot with an average of just 417,000 viewers per night.

Not to burst Behar’s bubble or diminish the importance of finishing in the all important number four spot, but TVbyTheNumbers.com recently took “the first 50 days of ratings for Headline News’ The Behar Show and compared them to the final 50 days of the show she replaced, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell. So far, Joy’s done no better in the ratings.”

Is it just us or was “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell” a show you found by accident when there were no good infomercials on?

Behar topped her average ratings only three times during the 50 day period. Her featured guests on those nights were Martin Short, Levi Johnson and Roseanne Barr – a gay icon and two celebrities everyone thought were dead.

Have fun figuring out which is which.

Source: TVbyTheNumbers.com

– Written by Patrick Michael

This post was last modified on December 13, 2009

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  • What a hateful, venom-spewing, ignorant woman. Joy Behar should be taken off the air as far as I am concerned. Anyone who attacks and trashes the children of people who think differently than her, should not be seen or heard from. What would she think/do if someone started trashing her daughter? She is a 100% horrible person with no good qualities that are apparent to anyone watching or hearing her. I would watch The View if she were not on it, but to see her get away with trashing people's families is too much. She can't even show any graciousness to guests she doesn't like and that says a lot about how filled with hatred she is. She's truly a horrible person.

    • Now, Nancy, you need to learn to lower those barriers and let your emotions out. How do you really feel about Behar?

  • See... the problem is that Joy is actually a man with a sex change operation, that hates being a woman. The most sour hate filled individual I believe I have ever had the misfortune to view. I'd like to offer to loan her $20 so she can go out and purchase a bra, obviously she doesn't own one, or understand that she should wear one.

  • Joy Bewhore is just another fly in the ointment for the seriously failing CNN. I'm a liberal minded person, but I tremendously dislike Ms. Bewhore's arrogant and vindictive attitude. And since Larry King delivers such a major YAWN... ZZZZZ.... with his sappy, dim guests, Ms. Bewhore is slated to take over for old Larry when he retires. Since watching Ms. Bewhore's show is as affective as taking a handful of valium, I can hardly wait to see how she'll nail the lid on the coffin when she takes over King's old gig. CNN was once a cutting edge news outlet. Years ago cable television networks all had a unique personality all their own. A very diverse selection of programming and, of course, CNN delivered relevant news. Fast forward to the 21st century and cable TV takes a major turn for the worse. Nowhere is the diverse individuality within the cable networks anymore. CNN has taken the same rough and tumble fall, too. CNN "news" is now all about the flash and glamour of celebrity gossip. CNN was relentless in it's ridiculous coverage of Michael Jackson's death. And on the guy's death anniversary, it was more rerun coverage of Jackson on CNN's video archives. Enough is enough! As for Headline News Extra, this has got to be a very nasty April fools joke of a network.

  • CNN headline was a good channel, about 15 years ago. It has since fallen back & has never recovered. Bringing in talent like KillJoy Behar will do nothing to change that. The CNN flagship is no better either, & should be totally overhauled or just go tabloid, do something to make it worth having on your cable or satellite sysytem.

  • Her show is absolutely AWFUL, and she is on ALL NIGHT LONG. Every couple of hours. ACCCCKCKKKK! I've started watching mindless shows like FAMILY MATTERS just to offset her horrible "news" platform

    What is HLN thinking? We used to have Mike Galanos, Nancy Grace and Jane Velez all night long to watch - which was great.

    Now - Mike Galanos is off on a "teenage/family tangeant"

    And Nancy and Jane are spending 1/2 of their time reporting on - GAG - celebrities.

    Sickening.

    HOW ABOUT SOME REAL NEWS?

  • I have a horrible physiological reaction when I flip through and gaze at this ugly NON Italian Genetic imposter as she insists every time I happened to tune in for a few minutes. Her shrill hateful rhetoric of Anti White propaganda, Anti Christian, Anti White Women. She hates all that is beautiful and loathes her own ugliness, so she chronically attacks like a rabid foaming at the mouth hyena. She is genetically 100% Jewish, Anthropologically undisputed. Why she lies about this may be a mental disorder. She has not one iota of Italian Ancestry in her horrible unfortunate cursed mongrel facial features. She can be a close relative of Bet Midler, same classic Jewish traits. Joy is a hard line Marxist, Liberal nut case it's in the genetic makeup. She hurts my eyes even with the smoke and mirrors Photo Shop studio lighting to remove the sagging skin, puffy bloated face and squinty close eyes and overly large bubulous nose. Just a horrible looking creature. We hate Joy Behar, White Christian's won't tune in, She has the Gay supporters to keep company with.

    • Whoa Tarzan Girl! Don't you think you're coming on a bit too strong as a name caller? Doesn't that go against your "christian" protocol? Yeah, Joy is outspoken, but she's that way for a good reason; because she's most often accurate with her opinions. Joy's views on politics and religion is spot on correct. It's the conservatives who are breaking us down, and it's religion that is the root of all evil, degradation and delusion in our world. Joy is an ardent atheist and I applaud her for her atheistic views. More and more Americans are discovering atheism and living MUCH fuller lives because of that. Joy is also a scholar. She is an Ivy League graduate. A tremendously bright, comical, and to me: a very beautiful woman. So go ahead and have your say, but don't let me have to tell you so when all of what Joy says comes true, and most of it has already. Peace!

      • Atheist... what would know about Christianity, other than the fact you acknowledge the existence of its Cornerstone every time you write the date?

      • Hey atheist, I am non religious also but won't put myself in the same grouping as you or that pig behar the ugly. You think she's funny? What the ***k? You mean calling nice people that aren't there to defend themselves names is funny to you? And pretty? She looks like a pig with a wig on. You see being non religious I have no problem calling names to people like you and behar.

      • Put the crack pipe down and back up, slowly... you have got to be kidding...She does appear to be an athiest, a self loathing, hateful, miserable excuse of a human who can only bitch and whine and attack others. You say she is "spot on" in her views? For what? She is uninformed, ignorant, smug and immersed in liberal b.s. which has no basis in reality. Hateful, sad people project their inner ugliness. In her case, outer ugliness, too. She will end up divorcing her same-sex life partner, attempting to overdose and/or ending her own miserable, meaningless life. Fits the lib template of unhappiness and misery.
        Waiting for you to tell me so when it's (joy-beast) predictions come true. Lets see, consulting the lib playbook, that would be: global warming will destroy the earth, whitey is bad and the oppressed will take over the world, muslims settled North America, America bombed Pearl Harbor and blamed the innocent Japanese (wink wink whoopie) we don't know who actually attacked NYC on 9/11, it is all Bush's fault. Gays good, normal people bad. It is all Bush's fault. All worship algore, savior of the world. next to his a&&holiness obama, osama, barry, whatever it is now. P.S. It is all Bush's fault. WOW, I am caught up in liberal, mindless free fall, full of hate for America, traditional values, morality, decency and needing to strike out at anyone who doubts me!!!
        Nahhh, back to Earth now. Why do so many athiests and homosexuals end up committing suicide? Just wondering. Meaningless, self hating lives? Same with shrinks. Just wondering...

      • This is the most hateful and mean-spirited woman alive. She actually attacks and trashes the children of people she disagrees with? Who does that? I have to wonder what she would think if someone trashed her daughter....who apparently makes ceramics to sell online. No crime in that, but that being said, if someone started trashing her flesh and blood, this hateful woman might shut her mouth. I don't care where she got her degree, she is ignorant. She has zero tolerance of anyone who has different political views. No one is exempt from her vile, spiteful mouth.
        Maybe she's BIPOLAR or something, but Barbara Walters isn't much better for letting her get away with her venom.

  • Not for long Joy, your show is just as trite as you are....you are bigotted, self serving, opinionated, mean spirited and not funny....having you on the view in the morning ruins that time slot...now you have ruined an evening time slot....Glenn Beck rocks...you just can't fill his shoes...go back to your nightclubs where they appreciate you