Whoopi Goldberg leaves “The View” table to demonstrate feeling 'punch-drunk' over election 'insanity'

Goldberg put her Oscar-winning acting skills to use at the top of a day of Hot Topics.

Whoopi Goldberg turned The View into a performance art space Wednesday morning, as she left her seat at the Hot Topics table to demonstrate feeling "punch-drunk" over 2024 election insanity.

The 68-year-old put her Oscar-winning acting skills to good use as she performed a hybrid of interpretive dance/full-body stagecraft spectacle, all of which intentionally invoked a scene from the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls.

Goldberg launched into her theatrical opus after the show played a clip from Vice President Kamala Harris' Tuesday evening speech at the United States Capitol, in which she called for American unity and said she'd be a president for all people — even those who don't vote for her.

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"It's kind of what you wanted to hear. You're willing to work with both sides. Okay. Anything to stop this insanity. I feel like, have you ever seen Valley of the Dolls?" Goldberg said, addressing the audience before getting up from her seat to illustrate her point through fluid motion. "So, in the beginning of Valley of the Dolls, the girl, she's broken-hearted, she's faux-drinking in the forest, and she's walking like this."

Goldberg then pretended to stumble behind cohost Sara Haines as she re-enacted the scene.

"That's how I feel. I feel like I am just walking down the street punch-drunk. I don't know if this is starting to get to you as well, but that's what's happening to me," she said in an apparent artist statement explaining her performance piece.

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Goldberg is a longtime supporter of vacating her View chair, as she once walked off the set during a 2023 discussion about country singer Miranda Lambert, and, two months later, moved away from the table and toward a large screen at the back of the seat to examine an image of an alien body displayed on the monitor.

"It's not a puppet. It doesn't seem to be. I mean, it's definitely dead," Goldberg stated at the time.

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