Joy Behar surprised with striptease on ‘The View’ for her 82nd birthday

The “View” co-hosts surprised Joy Behar with a male stripper for her upcoming birthday.

Behar, who turns 82 Monday, celebrated her big day during Friday’s episode of the ABC talk show, but things quickly escalated when her close friend Nathan Lane appeared as a guest.

After his interview wrapped up, co-host Ana Navarro asked the actor, “Did you come here empty-handed for Joy’s birthday?”

Joy Behar received a surprise striptease for her birthday during Friday’s episode of “The View.” ABC A “hot Italian” man walked onto the stage and began dancing. ABC

“No, I did not! Because Joy is still a hot Italian woman, I have ordered Joy a hot Italian pizza!” he proclaimed.

A man wearing a pizza T-shirt and a baseball cap then strutted onto the stage and approached Behar while carrying a pizza box.

“Bring it, bring it, bring it, bring it!” the TV host said while motioning him to come toward her seat.

The man took off his shirt and kissed Behar’s hand. ABC He started thrusting and dancing in Behar’s direction. ABC

The man then ripped off his shirt and started dancing and thrusting in Behar’s direction. He took her hand and kissed it before doing various flips and and dance moves in front of everyone.

The birthday girl seemed to enjoy the surprise striptease, as she smiled, clapped and laughed along with her four co-hosts.

At one point, Behar jokingly cooled herself off by waving her hands and her note cards near her face.

The comedian smiled throughout the performance. ABC The faux pizza delivery man did a somersault and a backflip. ABC

The women brought out the faux pizza delivery man once again at the end of the show, and he continued dancing shirtless while Navarro asked whether he could return to the show “without a shirt.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Behar poked fun at her age, joking that she could not say how old she was turning because she did not want people to “fact-check” her.

The comedian has never been one to shy away from making racy jokes and comments on the daytime series.

Behar, pictured here in July, turns 82 on Monday. GC Images The longtime talk show host is known to enjoy a racy joke. Instagram/Joy Behar

Most recently, she criticized 37-year-old “Hills” alum Kristin Cavallari for breaking up with her 24-year-old boyfriend, Mark Estes, over not being “worldly,” saying at least he could “find [her] G-spot.”

Prior to that, Behar expressed interest in getting “it on with a lady” when she turns 90.

The Emmy winner has also detailed meeting her husband, Steve Janowitz, at a partial nudist colony but clarified that she was “dressed.”