Matt Rogers jokes about his ‘little View conflict’ with Joy Behar

Among The View‘s great clashes, Rosie O’Donnell vs. Elisabeth Hasselbeck always comes first. But, the moment Joy Behar told comedian and longtime fan of the talk show, Matt Rogers, to “shut up” live on the air might be a close second (at least to him).

After Behar made headlines in 2023 for shushing Rogers at the Hot Topics table after the Las Culturistas podcast cohost revealed that he once observed the 82-year-old comedian while she was barefoot on a plane, Rogers jokes to Entertainment Weekly that the moment made him feel “like [he’d] really made it” as a celebrity.

“I get to shake Joy Behar up on The View? In a way, I guess I had a little View conflict, which, as a little gay boy who’s always watched The View, you look forward to that,” Rogers explains in a joint interview with Saturday Night Live‘s Bowen Yang on the Celestial Carpet at the grand opening of the Universal Epic Universe theme park in Orlando, Fla.

Rogers clarifies that “it’s all good” and that Behar “laughed afterwards, and we had a good time” following the moment. “I didn’t ruffle feathers too badly,” he teases with a smile.

Yang accompanied Rogers during that fateful interview on ABC’s daytime program, where cohost Sunny Hostin brought up that the panelists were on the same flight as the actors while the group traveled out of the Bahamas, from which The View broadcast several of their summer episodes in 2022.

“We had a really fun time in the Bahamas with the cohosts of The View. Here’s what I’ll say about them: They are exactly who they are on television, and exactly who you’d want them all to be,” Rogers adds. “There’s no faking. They’re that smart, they’re that dynamic, they’re that unique, and they are genuinely friends, and they really love each other.”

Yang jumps in to call the hosts “so smart,” before the duo additionally praises cohosts Sara Haines and Ana Navarro.

When EW asks which of The View cohosts was the most memorable partier in the Bahamas, Rogers exclaims, “The one that we didn’t get to have drinks with, which was Whoopi [Goldberg]!”

He adds that “we didn’t get to really crush drinks with her,” though Yang recalls, “We talked to her, she’s amazing.”

Elsewhere in their interview with EW at the park’s opening event, Yang reflects on his time as a six-season SNL cast member, as well as his future with the sketch comedy show.

“I think you get to a point at SNL where you understand that you’re on the downswing of things. I think I was just processing that being one of the last ‘last nights’ that I would have, and that is a huge thing,” he says of appearing to get emotional in the closing moments of the season 50 finale.

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He elaborates, “Every finale at goodnights, something leaves my body, because I’m just relieved from all that happened in that season, and this was a big one. We went through a lot, so many fun memories. I think that was probably what was registering. I was just like, oh, I need to savor these moments before I don’t have them anymore.”

Watch EW’s interview with Yang and Rogers in the video at the top of this post.