Joy Behar pulls a Meg Ryan, shows ‘resting gift face’ on ‘The View’

Be wary of giving Joy Behar a gift this or any holiday.

On Friday’s episode of The Vieweach cohost was asked to demonstrate her “resting gift face,” the look she flashes when unwrapping something that she really didn’t want. The activity followed cohost Whoopi Goldberg announcing that a recent survey had found more than half of people had mastered their own.

“It’s really nothing,” Behar said. “It’s not that hard. It’s like faking an orgasm. Piece of cake.”

She then pulled a version of Me Ryan‘s most famous scene in the beloved 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sallywhen she pretends to have an orgasm in the middle of Katz’s Deli in New York City. Watch the moment at about 2:30 in the video below:

“Wow! Oh, god, I love it,” she said as she moved her head around. “Oh my god.”

The imitation prompted Ana Navarro to quip, “I’ll have what she’s having,” as Estelle Reiner famously did in the film directed by her son, Rob Reinerand written by the late Nora Ephron.

As Reiner explained to Entertainment Weekly in 2019the actress volunteered to act out an orgasm, as her character (Sally) was explaining to her platonic friend Harry (Billy Crystal) that a woman had pretended to enjoy sex with him more than she actually had.

“Meg was the one who said, ‘I’ll do it. I’ll actually do it,'” Reiner said. “The idea was we gotta have something that men don’t know about women because earlier where they’re in the plane together and Billy talked about after sex how a man feels and all that, and we were saying we need a counterpoint, and Meg said, ‘I’ll do it, I’ll just actually act it out. We don’t have to talk about it. I’ll do it.’ And I had the idea: ‘(It’ll be) in a restaurant!'”

Back on The ViewBehar’s cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin also recounted a time when her then-new fiancé, now husband Justin Griffin, presented her with a Cartier box, which she thought was going to be a watch that she really wanted. Instead, it was personalized stationery.

“And he waited a half-hour to give me the actual watch,” she said.

In the meantime, Griffin pretended to like the other gift.

Behar herself later recalled a Christmas celebration she had attended where kids received all clothes and “started crying hysterically.”

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The View will be on break starting Dec. 23 but will return Jan. 6, 2025. The show airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.