Yang was reluctant to portray the Vice President on "SNL" even before Vance had the final meeting with Pope Francis the day before he died.

Pope Francis was a vocal critic of the Trump administrations’ mass deportations, and following his death, many online joked that it was his meeting with Vance that killed him. The official cause of death was a cerebral stroke, that sent the pope into a coma and heart failure.

SNL” star Bowen Yang jokingly called Vice President JD Vance a “pope killer” on Thursday’s episode of “The View,” sending Whoopi Goldberg and her fellow co-hosts into fits of laughter. Yang’s roundtable chat on “The View” pivoted to Vance because Yang has portrayed the “Hillbilly Elegy” author on “SNL.