The White House Correspondents dinner occurred yet again on April 27, 2024, and was about as cringeworthy and unfunny as one would expect. But though this year’s dinner was less than thrilling, it did spark a resurfacing of a video from the White House Correspondent’s Dinner in 2014 in which “Community” actor Joel McHale torched Biden over his cognitive decline.
During the speech, McHale torched then-Vice President Joe Biden for his then-apparent lack of mental acuity in quite hilarious fashion, joking that Joe was so out of it that he went to the completely wrong location and was busy talking to a construction cone. The room apparently got where he was coming from with the joke about Biden’s mental state, as the room erupted with laughter.
He said, “The vice president isn’t here tonight, not for security reasons, he just thought this event was being held at the Dulles Airport Applebee’s. Yes, right now Joe is elbow-deep in jalapeno poppers and talking to a construction cone that he thinks is John Boehner. Also true. It’s crazy to think that Joe Biden is only one heartbeat away from no one taking him seriously as president. Sorry for that one.”
Continuing, McHale then torched Biden’s presidential ambitions and his apparent lack of concern with why he would be running rather than simply that he would be running. He then turned that into yet another joke about Biden’s glibness and lack of mental acuity, joking about the vice president treating the presidency like a hoagie.
He said, “Biden will likely be running for president in 2016 saying, and I quote, ‘There’s no obvious reason not to.’ He talks about his motivation for a presidential run as if he’s deciding to finish a meatball hoagie. ‘Hey, it’s there, isn’t it? All I’m saying is if the bread is toasty and the cheese is warm, I’m going to finish that thing. Jill, bring me my hoagie bib. No, not that one. The fancy one.'”
McHale, in that joke, was referencing a comment Joe made in 2014 about whether he would run for the presidency even though Hillary was widely seen as the presumptive nominee. He said, “There may be reasons I don’t run, but there’s no obvious reason for me why I think I should not run.”
The End Wokeness X account, posting about the funny, decade-old speech on X, said, “At the WH Correspondents Dinner, Biden was ruthlessly mocked over his cognitive decline. Everyone in the room- even Obama- found it hilarious. Here’s the thing. This isn’t from tonight. It’s FROM 2014. A full decade ago, they knew.”
Watch the speech here:
McHale also joked about a Hillary Clinton run during the speech, saying, “Hillary Clinton has a lot going for her as a candidate: She has experience, she’s a natural leader. As our first female president, we could pay her 30 percent less. That is a savings this country could use. Who’s with me? Hillary’s daughter Chelsea is pregnant which means in nine months we will officially have a sequel to “Bad Grandpa.” It also raises the question, when the baby is born do you give Bill Clinton a cigar? You guys sound like you’re on a roller coaster right now.”
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