Jason Sudeikis and ‘Ted Lasso’ team react to Joy Behar claiming she was offered a role: ‘News to us’

“Ted Lasso” stars Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt are clapping back at Joy Behar’s claim that she was asked to guest star on the Apple TV+ show.

“The View” co-host, 81, alleged on Wednesday that she was invited to play the role of Sudeikis’ mom on the comedy.

The “Horrible Bosses” star, 48, and Hunt, 51, appeared with cast members Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster, Cristo Fernandez, Kola Bokinni, James Lance and Billy Harris during a a panel discussion at the PEOPLE X IHG Conversation in Los Angeles Thursday.

The men were surprised at Behar’s claim, with Sudekis joking: “I, no. Joy Behar from ‘The View?’” when asked if the news that she was set to appear in the third season was valid.

“She’s welcome to sit at the table,” he added.

“Respectfully, it would be news to us. We just work there,” Hunt chimed in.

Earlier this week, Behar claimed on the “Behind the Table” podcast that she refused to play Ted’s mom due to the weather in London — where the show films — being too warm for her.

“You were contacted about the possibility to be on my favorite show of all time,” Brian Teta, producer of “The View,” said on the radio program.

“You were dismissive of it because it would require you to spend your hiatus in London,” he said.

“It was too hot, you remember? There was a heat wave going on at that time, like 100-degree weather, and I’d have to get on a plane and go in the middle of the heat? No,” Behar said.

The talk show host continued: “Listen, I’m a writer, I write my own stuff, I don’t care about other people’s stuff. I don’t need to be in everything.”

“Ted Lasso” came to an end in May 2023 after three seasons, and followed an American college football coach who is hired to teach an English soccer team.

Teta noted that the dramedy was “the hottest show on TV” at one point.

Behar, however, disagreed. “If they were doing it in the spring I would’ve done it maybe, or in the fall, but not in the middle of the heat wave,” she scoffed.

Becky Ann Baker ultimately scored the role of Ted’s mom Dottie Lasso — and received an Emmy nomination for her work.

“Well, good for her,” Behar added. “Bravo.”

The show debuted in August 2020 and had been critically acclaimed since its inception.

The first season scored 20 Emmy Awards, with Sudeikis, Waddingham, 49, and Goldstein, 43, earning golden statuettes for their performances.

In 2021, they earned an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series while the “Saturday Night Live” alum took home the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Television Series Musical or Comedy.