Live hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos forced to duck as famous guest throws chair across the room live on air

KELLY Ripa and Mark Consuelos have been forced to duck on their live talk show on Tuesday.

Guest Joel McHale threw a chair across the set after he took one from the audience.

Joel appeared on the show to talk about his new series, Crime Scene Kitchen.

When he walked out from behind the stage, he greeted every single audience member, shook their hand, and went row by row to do so.

In the middle of greeting them, Joel grabbed an empty chair and drug it down the steps to the part of the stage that Kelly and Mark were on.

Instead of sitting in the chair that was provided for him, the actor sat in the small metal chair that the audience members sit in.

Kelly and Mark talked about old memories they had with Joel and before they got in depth into the interview, Kelly told him he could sit in the stool.

As he talked about a comedy show that he did over the weekend, Joel also promoted the second season of his Fox show Animal Control.

"Joel, you’ve got to get in the stool if you want people to really react," Kelly told him.

"Alright. Well, let's see," he said, as he moved into the bigger chair.

Kelly turned towards the camera and said: "Animal Control on Fox."

The crowd cheered and Joel stood up and threw the small chair off of the set.

Kelly sat back in her chair, trying to duck, as Mark just laughed.

There has been a lot of distractions in the audience lately on Live that have taken away from the show.

Mark stopped Live with Kelly and Mark mid-show to call out an audience member for being distracting.

The presenter interrupted his wife Kelly's story after spotting a young man wearing a Michigan State University Spartans T-shirt.

Mark and Kelly - whose youngest son Joaquin, 20, attends the University of Michigan - are fervent supporters of the Michigan Wolverines.

At the start of last Thursday's episode of Live, Mark put out a hand to stop Kelly in the middle of her story.

He said: "Babe, I got to tell you. When you're telling this story I'm a little distracted."

Kelly asked in confusion: "Why?"

Eyeing up the back of the audience, he said: "I see a Michigan State guy back there!"

Kelly spotted the man and accused him jokingly, "Oh, you're provoking us!"

Mark agreed: "Yeah, you're provoking us!"

The young man, who sat proudly in his dark green T-shirt, grinned at the hosts.

Mark then called out, "Go Green!" beginning a classic Spartans cheer, to which the man replied with its response: "Go White!"

Kelly retorted back: "OK, well we say, 'Go Blue!' because this is maize, this dress," as she pointed at her yellow dress.

The TV star was referring to the colors of the Michigan Wolverines, which are yellow and blue.

Mark laughed and said to the fan, "Anyway, welcome Michigan State!" as Kelly added: "Very funny."

Kelly and Mark had another awkward run-in with each other on-air.

Kelly, 52, had to recently save her husband slash co-host Mark, 52, from having another embarrassing mishap on the morning show.

During Thursday's Live! episode, Mark introduced the contestant who'd be participating in their Grow For It Spring Trivia segment, Reba Coutermarsh.

Grow For It Spring Trivia allows fans to ring in to answer a question in the hopes of winning a prize.

Reba called in by phone to play the game, just like all the past competitors have done.

Initially, the soap opera star pronounced the caller's name correctly; however, when he addressed her again in conversation, he misspoke.

Poking fun at where Reba lived, Mark said: "Rebecca say 'Hi' to Santa Clause for me" - the mythical Santa lives in North Pole, Alaska, and so did Reba.

Mark chuckled lightly at his joke, seemingly taken away with his own witticism.

Meanwhile, Kelly appeared briefly irritated that her other half called Reba the wrong name after he just introduced her approximately 30 seconds before.

"Reba, Reba!," she reminded him sternly.

Mark repeated the name twice after his wife to cement it in his head.