Kara Swisher stepped into Joy Behar’s seat on The View this week and turned Nicholas Galitzine’s Wednesday visit into a live-TV moment that had the table cheering. Swisher, filling in for Behar while the co-host was overseas in support of her play, told Galitzine on air that his abs kept up.
That line landed because Galitzine was there to promote Masters of the Universe, where he stars as Adam Glenn, also known as He-Man. He is following in a role long tied to Dolph Lundgren, but on Wednesday the audience’s reaction was the immediate measure of how the segment played. Galitzine said that was the real approval that matters.
The moment unfolded during the daytime show’s midweek broadcast, when Swisher joked that it had been left to “the lesbian” to say what everyone seemed to be thinking. She told Galitzine, “But let me just tell you, I would say your abs — I can’t believe they’re leaving it to the lesbian to say this — but your abs keep up,” and Whoopi Goldberg cut in with the reply, “Lesbians are not blind.”
The exchange drew cheers and laughter from the audience and the panel, a reaction that gave the appearance its edge. Swisher was not there as a permanent replacement; she was filling in for Behar for two weeks total, and the guest spot gave the show a brief, unexpected jolt of personality while Galitzine continued his press tour for the film.
For Galitzine, the appeal was not the joke itself but the response it set off. His acknowledgment that the crowd’s reaction was the approval that matters made the segment feel less like a scripted stop and more like a real live-TV detour, the kind that can travel well beyond the studio once the clips start moving.
