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Joy Behar announced last week that she’d take a hiatus from The View<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The 83-year-old comedian also confirmed that she’d travel overseas with her play, My First Ex-Husband<\/em>, during her absence from the Hot Topics table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n She later insisted that her hiatus from The View<\/em> is “not a hiatus.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Joy Behar<\/a> won’t be on The View<\/em><\/a> this week \u2014 or next week, for that matter \u2014 as the 83-year-old comedian previously announced that she’d take a hiatus from the Hot Topics table<\/a> to explore another exciting project in her career.<\/p>\n Behar announced last week that she’d be absent from upcoming episodes of the daytime talk show, beginning with the Monday, June 1 episode.<\/p>\n Though she typically has the first episode of each week off anyway, the longtime cohost is actually currently overseas in London, where she and actress Jackie Hoffman are presenting the Behar-penned play My First Ex-Husband <\/em>following its run in New York City.<\/p>\n After Entertainment Weekly<\/em> first reported on Behar’s announced hiatus, the cohost attempted to criticize on Friday media coverage<\/a> of her impending break from the show.<\/p>\n “There’s been a lot of media attention on me lately because I’m taking off the next two weeks. They’re calling it a hiatus. It’s not a hiatus,” Behar said on Friday’s pre-taped episode. Merriam-Webster defines<\/a> “hiatus” as “a break in” something, especially “an interruption in time or continuity” or “a period when something (such as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted.”<\/p>\n Cohost Sara Haines also took issue with coverage of Behar’s break from the show: “I love that they’re calling it a ‘hiatus,'” Haines said, making air quotes with her fingers. “That’s a break, people.”<\/p>\n Behar and producer Brian Teta initially discussed the star’s planned absence on the Behind the Table <\/em>podcast, where Teta also revealed that Behar would be gone long enough for the show to bring in guest cohosts to fill in for her.<\/p>\n Among those set to join the Hot Topics table in the episodes ahead are longtime fill-in panelist Sheryl Underwood, journalist Kara Swisher, and extending moderator Whoopi Goldberg<\/a>‘s panel time into Fridays for the time being, though the EGOT winner typically has the day off each week.<\/p>\n As for when Behar’s will return to The View<\/em>, a representative for the show declined to provide EW with an exact date when reached for comment.<\/p>\n