The View has called Sheryl Underwood back for another guest hosting stint.
Underwood won over the show’s fans in March, when she spent a week filling in while Alyssa Farah Griffin was on maternity leave.
Now the Republican comedian is set to return to the daytime talk show while Joy Behar takes an extended leave.
Behar announced her leave on the Tuesday, May 26 episode of the show’s “Behind the Table” podcast.
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The View executive producer Brian Teta hosts the podcast and welcomed Behar to the microphone.
“This is your last podcast for a little bit, because next week you’re not going to be here,” Teta said, before asking if it was okay to discuss her time away.
Behar confirmed she’s about to leave the country, but grumbled that she had to tape episodes of the weekend edition of The View before she leaves.
“Well, they made me bank the weekend shows even though I’m not here,” she said. “I fly to Paris this week, then I go take the Chunnel (Channel Tunnel train) to London after a week. I’ll be in London the second week doing my play, My First Ex-Husband, at the Boulevard Theatre in the West End.”
Teta then said the show has booked a couple of fill-in hosts in her absence.
“Week one, we’ve already told people that Sheryl Underwood is coming… for two days,” said Teta. Journalist Kara Swisher will also be on the show next week, and moderator Whoopi Goldberg will work on Friday, which she normally takes off, according to Teta.
Underwood, who previously served as a co-host on The Talk, filled in at The View the week of March 9, 2026.
More recently she joined Netflix’s The Roast of Kevin Hart and tore into host Shane Gillis after he told a string of anti-Black jokes.
“I know it’s some shit in that motherf–g teleprompter, but I’m glad that Shane … stopped at wigga, ‘cause had you said anything that sounded ‘bigger, trigger,’ or anything that sound like ‘n—-r, you wouldn’t have made it out of motherf–king Inglewood alive. You don’t know where the f–k you are. You will respect us in this house. This is the f–king Forum, built by the Showtime Lakers,” Underwood told the comic.
Her fiery comments impressed Netflix brass and landed her a stand-up special of her own on the streaming platform.
The Emmy-winning former co-host of The Talk recently announced the upcoming special will be produced by Kevin Hart and will begin streaming in 2027.
You can listen to the podcast interview with Joy Behar here at the 22:00 mark.
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