Joy Behar Is Taking a Paris-to-London Trip — and ‘The View’ Made Her Pre-Record First

Joy Behar is going to Europe, and she made sure everyone knew about it.

On Tuesday’s episode of Behind the Table — The View’s companion podcast — executive producer Brian Teta let it slip that Behar would be taking some time off. “This is your last podcast for a little bit, because next week you’re not going to be here,” Teta said. “Are we talking about this?”

Behar was ready. “Well, they made me bank the weekend shows even though I’m not here,” she said. “You better tell people why I’m not here.”

The reason: she’s flying to Paris this week, staying for a week, then hopping the Eurostar through the Channel Tunnel to London. It’s the kind of itinerary that sounds like it was planned the moment the season calendar cleared.

The “banking” detail is the practical reality of live television — Behar recorded her weekend show appearances in advance so viewers at home would see her on screen while she was actually somewhere in the 8th arrondissement. It’s not the first time a View host has pre-taped around travel, but Behar’s particular insistence on telling the audience exactly what the show was doing with her recorded segments had a very Joy-being-Joy energy about it.

The hiatus is short. Behar, who turns 83 this year, has been a co-host on The View since its premiere in 1997 — which makes this her 29th season. A Paris trip barely registers as an absence by those standards.

She’ll be back. The croissants, meanwhile, are not going to eat themselves.