“The View”'s Joy Behar asks if J.D. Vance is gay after 'normal gay guy' comment: 'How does he know? Is he one of them?'

Patti LuPone also joined "The View" and reacted in shock when she heard that Vance said Donald Trump will win the "normal gay guy" vote.

Joy Behar's latest joke on The View attempted to push J.D. Vance's narrative into Hillbilly Ele-GBT territory.

The 82-year-old comedian asked on Friday's live show if Donald Trump's VP pick is gay, after panelist Ana Navarro shocked the program's interview guest, queer icon Patti LuPone, by informing her that Vance speculated in a recent chat with podcaster Joe Rogan that the Trump ticket could win the "normal gay guy" vote during Tuesday's election.

"Yesterday, J.D. Vance said the normal gays are going to vote for them," Navarro said, as LuPone put her head in her hand and asked, "Oh my God, who is this?"

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"What does that even mean?" conservative panelist and former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin posed, before Behar quipped, "How does he know? Is he one of them?"

The audience lightly gasped at Behar's remark, after similar jokes about sexuality have landed other comedians and internet in hot water — including past digital memes that mockingly categorized Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin as a romantic one.

Navarro then turned to the crowd to ask, "Are there any normal gays in the audience?" while Griffin finished her thought by classifying Vance's assessment as "so offensive."

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Vance has largely drawn criticism from the LGBTQ community, with GLAAD even listing a roster of stances the politician has taken that they cite as going against the interests of the community.

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for the Trump campaign for comment.

Prior to becoming Trump's VP pick, Vance — who also courted controversy earlier this year after a resurfaced 2021 interview clip showed him slamming "childless cat ladies" on the political left — published an account of his life story under the title Hillbilly Elegy, which chronicled his relationship to his grandmother and mother (played by Glenn Close and Amy Adams in a subsequent Netflix movie) as well as his budding romance with his wife, Usha Vance (portrayed by Freida Pinto in the film).

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.