Joy Behar was absent from her seat on The View for a while but is now back after her lengthy hiatus. Joy stepped up into her duties as a fill-in moderator while Whoopi Goldberg left The View to go to Paris before taking an extended time off from the show.

Joy Behar is still not back on The View, much to the disappointment of her loyal fans. The longtime co-host has been out since Monday (Feb. 3), which was not unusual for her since she works four days per week on the show, but her absence since Tuesday (Feb. 4) has been very much felt around the Hot Topics table.

It consists of eight monologues she crafted after interviewing a diverse group of divorcées. The result is something along the lines of Nora and

Behar said she's "still a little sick" when her cohosts laughed at her immediately repeating Goldberg's talking point about Project 2025.

Behar is missing from today’s episode of The View. When the Tuesday episode began, Goldberg got her absence out of the way right at the top. She told the audience, “All kinds of stuff is going on today. Joy is not here. She’ll be back tomorrow, we think.”