
'Serious' Joe Biden looks to prove he can be actually funny
CNN
It was 2014 and Diamond Joe was having a moment.
The muscle-car-revving, hair-metal-blasting party animal, conceived as satire by The Onion as Joe Biden's alter-ego, had suddenly become the toast of Washington -- never mind the actual Joe Biden doesn't drink and has remained happily married for four decades.
Still, the best comedy contains truths. Though he'd later come to resent the "goofy uncle" label, Biden was willing to be in on the joke for a little while. And so, on a spring afternoon, he found himself sitting in a canary yellow Corvette Stingray, aviator sunglasses in place, filming a video for the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner with his fictional Veep equivalent played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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