Danny DeVito 'Drunk as a Skunk' on the View Says Joy

Danny DeVito hit ABC's morning gab fest 'The View' on Monday to promote his new film 'Deck the Halls' slurring his words and mugging for the cameras causing many to claim that Danny DeVito might have been a bit tipsy on the program.

Danny DeVito 'Drunk as a Skunk' on the View (Image: ABC)

Joy Behar put it more bluntly on today's show: "He was drunk as a skunk."

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DeVito claimed (and who would doubt) that he had been up all night partying with George Clooney, fuelled by copious amounts of an Italian lemon liqueur. "I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me," he said.

As soon as DeVito sat down on set, his host, Rosie O'Donnell, sensed something was up. "Have you been to sleep yet?" she asked.

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"I don't know," he replied.

He then launched into a rant about George Bush, complaining he hadn't been invited to stay at the White House since he had taken the presidency. ABC bleeped out DeVito's description of President Bush, but the New York Post lip-read it as: "numb nuts".

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No worries, he is always welcome. 

Barbara Walters says Danny DeVito is welcome on The View after appearing to be intoxicated Wednesday on the talk show.

"We love him, we'll have him on again," the co-host and co-creator said on the chatfest Thursday morning, taking the actor’s disheveled appearance in stride. She added that DeVito had left a message for her almost immediately after his visit but the two had yet to talk. “It said he was not going to say anything until he talked to me."