Goldberg had to tell the studio audience to pipe down after their exclamations cut in while Alyssa Farah Griffin attempted to ask the singer a question.

Whoopi Goldberg calls out* The View* audience to quiet down for John Legend interview: ‘Let this girl ask the question!’

Goldberg had to tell the studio audience to pipe down after their exclamations cut in while Alyssa Farah Griffin attempted to ask the singer a question.

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- *The View* audience members got a surprise from Whoopi Goldberg at the top of a John Legend interview.

- The EGOT-winning star turned to the crowd and asked them to be quiet while Alyssa Farah Griffin asked a question.

- "Let this girl ask the question!" Goldberg said, smiling.

Whoopi Goldberg might need a little *extra* time to enjoy* **The View**.*

The EGOT-winning actress and talk show moderator called out the series' studio audience on Monday morning, after they got a tad too rowdy with excitement over interview guest John Legend.

Goldberg introduced her Hollywood peer by repeating his status as a fellow EGOT winner, before bringing the* Evening with John Legend: A Night of Songs and Stories *star out to set.

Whoopi Goldberg asks 'The View' audience to quiet down for John Legend interview.

The audience enthusiastically applauded as the singer joined the Hot Topics table, sitting down to field a question from cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin as the studio crowd turned up.

"Welcome back, it's such a pleasure to have you. Now, you just walked out to your song 'Green Light,' and on April 2, NASA Mission Control played it for the Artemis crew..." Griffin said, while cheers from the audience drowned out portions of her words, prompting Goldberg to step in and help out the conservative panelist.

"Okay, hold on a second!" Goldberg said, looking out toward the audience.

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"Hey, y'all, this is only an hour-long show. Please let this girl ask the question because you want to know the answer!" she said, smiling at the audience. Griffin laughed as she added, "I'm as excited as they are!"

Legend then admitted he "couldn't hear a word" Griffin said, as he was just "smiling and nodding" while soaking up the audience's affection.

Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, John Legend, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin on 'The View'.

Last week, panelist Joy Behar (who typically has Mondays off) called out *The View* producer Brian Teta for what she labeled a "problem" with the show's audience, after he told her that sometimes the audience assembled for the show is there to see the interview guests instead of the regular cohosts.

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"If it's someone for, like, let's say it's a comic book movie, and everyone's here because they love the guy here playing the new superhero, and they've never seen our show before, they're waiting for this guy to come out for the whole thing," Teta told her. "That doesn't work in the same way."

"Yeah, that's a problem," Behar quipped back. "You need to correct that."

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC.

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