"The View" was on the verge of another full Goldberg collapse at the Hot Topics table, after Yang's quip took the Oscar-winning actress out.

He doesn’t mean it literally,” said Joy Behar while her fellow cohosts struggled to stop themselves from laughing.

Whoopi Goldberg fell over in laughter when fellow comedian Bowen Yang floated the notion that Vice President JD Vance was involved in what one might call Pope Francis’ final benediction. Pope Francis died Monday at age 88.