It was Joe’s show

bidenVice President Joe Biden did the comedy honors at the Gridiron Club dinner last weekend. Among the highlights:
– “I know these evenings run long, so I’m going to be brief. Talk about the audacity of hope. President Obama does send his greetings, though. He can’t be here tonight, because he’s busy getting ready for Easter. He thinks it’s about him.”
– “You know, I never realized just how much power Dick Cheney had until my first day on the job. I walked into my office, and you know how the outgoing president always leaves the incoming president a note in his desk? I opened my drawer and Dick Cheney had left me Barack Obama’s birth certificate.”
– “I understand these are dark days for the newspaper business, but I hate it when people say that newspapers are obsolete. That’s totally untrue. I know from firsthand experience. I recently got a puppy, and you can’t housebreak a puppy on the Internet.”

9 Comments

  1. ProudMan
    Posted March 28, 2009 at 8:24 am | Permalink

    Ah but the best ones are when he is not trying to make jokes.

    “It is nice that they finally have a clean and articulate one.” (or something like that)

  2. Regular
    Posted March 28, 2009 at 8:35 am | Permalink

    Paper may be gone, but future fold-able synthetic paper may be the wave of the future. It can be sold at news stands, rented or purchased for home or office.

    The synthetic paper, under development by a consortium based on Microsoft technologies will enable readers to browse a newspaper, point on images or objects on the pages and navigate for further information.

    This of course, will enable the morning ‘constitutional readers’ to peruse their favorite editors, cartoons and sports stories. The breakfast club types will once again have the luxury of holding ’some daily readable’ in their hands.

    No, nothing about Biden, but I found this way more interesting.

    Biden is boring.

  3. Monkeyhawk
    Posted March 28, 2009 at 9:03 am | Permalink

    “Regular” –

    “BIDEN is boring?!”

    Vice-President Biden is the frigging 21st Century reincarnation of Oscar Wilde’s repartee compared to the drivel you contribute to this forum.

    And if you don’t have anything to say, here’s a suggestion –

    Don’t say it.

    “Biden is boring.”

    So you change the subject and cut-and-post an irrelevant press release just because your Strattera pills haven’t kicked in yet.

    We just got though eight years of Adult Attention-Deficit Disorder festering in the Oval Office. We shouldn’t be subjected to your lack of mental acuity.

  4. Regular
    Posted March 28, 2009 at 9:18 am | Permalink

    MonkeyHawk,

    UP

    YOURS

    SIDEWAYS

    (chortles)

  5. Pedant
    Posted March 28, 2009 at 9:29 am | Permalink

    Biden has always been a funny guy. He has faults, no doubt (we all do), but it’s pretty darn hard not to like Joe Biden.

  6. Monkeyhawk
    Posted March 28, 2009 at 9:49 am | Permalink

    “Regular” banters with his usual aplomb –

    “MonkeyHawk,

    UP

    YOURS

    SIDEWAYS

    (chortles)”

    That sounds like the Noel Coward song he never got around to writing.

    Go for it, “Regular!”

    We can’t get enough of it.

    In fact, so far, we don’t even have half of it.

  7. Phantom
    Posted March 28, 2009 at 6:35 pm | Permalink

    Not a funny Joe, say it ain’t so.

  8. ictBest
    Posted March 28, 2009 at 10:45 pm | Permalink

    I guess Biden’s daughter was caught on cellphone camera doing some bugger sugar.

    At least we have something to replace the Bush Twins in partying goofs.

  9. SEMPERFIGUY
    Posted March 29, 2009 at 2:57 pm | Permalink

    I quote ictBest”I guess Biden’s daughter was caught on cellphone camera doing some bugger sugar. ”

    Their is nothing funny about that ict, family is golden, and few things can compare to a father’s love for his daughter. I hope the video is a fake, but whoever the girl is, God help her. Drugs steal your soul, but many good people do make those mistakes and end up trapped.

    Our only concern when these things come up, no matter who is involved, or what party they belong to, what religion they are etc… is that we all hope for their well being. Life is precious.