While comedians and comedy shows hilariously roast President Joe Biden and Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, those aren’t the only ones involved with the administration to get roasted. In addition to them, staffers have gotten roasted, as happened to one Biden staffer at a stand-up comedy event in May of this year.
As background, the comedy apparatus has finally, after years of focusing near-exclusively on mocking and deriding former President Donald Trump, started going after Biden. Most notably, Walz and Kamala have been funnily torched by Saturday Night Live, and Biden was obliterated by an Italian comedy program.
The staffer incident occurred back in mid-May in Chicago, at a famous comedy club called The Laugh Factory. There, comedian Josh Ocean Thomas, who hails from San Diego, California, was performing a stand-up comedy routine in the upper Midwest, where he told a Biden staffer in the audience, “What a s— show of a job you have!”
In the routine, before that exclamation, Thomas went on to joke with the alleged Biden staffer about the president’s seeming lack of energy and ability to get up and do what he is meant to do as president, asking if he has to wake the president up. He asked, “You work for the Biden administration? Is your job to wake him up, or what’s your job?”
He then continued joking about the job, miming and presenting to be a Biden staffer trying to get President Biden’s attention and saying, “Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! There’s a war! Hey!” Then, speaking more to the staffer in the audience, he remarked, “What a s— show of a job you have. I can’t believe you admitted that in front of all these people.”
Joking yet more about the matter, Thomas went on to exclaim that pretty much any job on Earth would have been less miserable and mockable than having to work for the senile president. He joked, on that note, “You have the freedom to lie. You could have said you were a hooker and I would’ve been prouder of you.”
And, when the staffer said that his job is to travel to states in the American Southeast for the president, at which point Thomas exclaimed, “That’s crazy! You go to the south and try to sell ‘em on Biden? You’re f*cking r*tard! What the f*ck? What are you talking about? That’s your f*cking job? Is to go, ‘Hey, listen, I know you guys like Trump, but Biden. I mean…’” Thomas then asked, “Wow. Are you ready to be unemployed? Or what’s your vibe?”
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Posting about the incident on X, one commenter joked that the jokes about the Biden staffer and working for the president wrote themselves, saying, “Comedian Josh Ocean Thomas jumps into crowd work at The Laugh Factory Chicago. Happens to find someone who works for the president. The rest wrote itself.” Another person who posted the clip wrote, “Hopefully this is how everyone is feeling today in America! Joe Biden needs to be unemployed ASAP!”