He doesn’t mean it literally,” said Joy Behar while her fellow cohosts struggled to stop themselves from laughing.

The Head of the Catholic Church, whose real name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, passed away Monday morning following a months-long battle with pneumonia.

Whoopi Goldberg fell over in laughter when fellow comedian Bowen Yang floated the notion that Vice President JD Vance was involved in what one might call Pope Francis’ final benediction. Pope Francis died Monday at age 88.