‘The View’covered the most touching moments of Whitney Houston’s funeral in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday, which included performances from the likes of Stevie Wonder and a moving speech by Kevin Costner. Then, naturally, talk turned to Whoopi Goldberg’s own funeral. Elisabeth Hasselbeck didn’t want to have the discussion, but Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi agreed that shying away from the inevitable doesn’t help anyone, and that funerals can sometimes be joyous.
At this point, the two of them began talking about “the lady that falls into the casket,” wailing, at the end of African American funerals
(Source: ABC-TV and Mediaite.com)