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.

Bowen Yang, a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" said Thursday that he thought there would be a better person to play JD Vance on SNL, and joked, "the guy's a pope killer."

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.