Whoopi Goldberg missed the season 27 premiere of the ABC talk show “The View” on Tuesday morning after testing positive for COVID-19, with her co-host Joy Behar seemingly gleefully telling the audience “yes, it’s back!”

“We’re back. Thank you, this is the premiere show of our 27th year on the air,” Behar, 80, said as she kicked off the show. “I was here for all of it, except for two, when they canned me. When they sacked my behind.”

This was a reference to when Behar was inexplicably fired from “The View” back in 2013, only to be brought back two years later in 2015.