Last night, Joe Biden made his first appearance on The Daily Show since being elected Vice President of these United States of A, and I have to say I was thoroughly disappointed. The interview lasted 14 minutes and there weren't any of the hilarious gaffes I've come to expect from the Veep. He didn't call Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "a pretty okay guy once you get to know him." He didn't accidentally blurt out missile codes. Hell, it didn't even look like his shoelaces were tied together. What a let down.

The interview continues below.

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Joe Biden? Who's that? I never heard of him. Sounds like a jerk to me. Oh, he's the first sitting Vice President to be a guest on The Daily Show? Vice President of what? Being a jerk? High five!

He's going to be making his sixth appearance on The Daily Show this Tuesday, November 17? Really? That's not so impressive. My cousin Randy's been on that show, like, twelve times. He has so. What do you know? You don't know nothin'.

Just look at this guy in these clips from all his previous appearances on the show over the years. Just look at him…

August 8, 2007

What do you think Jon Stewart should ask him? (My cousin Randy would probably ask him about backyard wrestling. Or something else awesome.)

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It's about time someone started making fun of Joe Biden. That guy's been getting a free pass for years…

A little more than a year after John McCain threw conservative debutant Sarah Palin her coming out party, the country still finds itself with a chronic case of Wasilla Fever!

Just take Levi Johnston. Not only is he getting his own not-brave-enough-to-get-naked spread in Gay Fancy Magazine (or something), but he's also having tales sung of his brave adventures by ironic-pianist balladeer Ben Folds, whom, I promise, Levi Johnston has never ever ever heard of.

But what about Sarahcuda? Where's her folk ballad? She's twice the folksy ballaverick her granddaughter's father is. Well, she doesn't get a song; she gets a whole opera!

"Say It Ain't So, Joe," a presentation by Guerilla Opera, opens Saturday at Boston Conservatory's Zack Box Theater. The work is composer Curtis Hughes' musical take on America's favorite moose-hunting winker, you betcha. It focuses on that contentious — and sometimes comical — debate from October 2008 between Palin and Joe Biden…

"It is a tragedy about Palin," he said. "Both characters view themselves as saviors of America. And even though I'm not trying to hammer people on the head with a single interpretation, you know that Biden will triumph in the end. But the central figure certainly is Sarah Palin. I found myself having this odd pathos for her, a pathos I would not have felt if I were not writing music for her."

What an interesting coincidence! I've found myself with an odd pathos for a lot of things for about a year or so now.

The Auto-Tune the News people turn their vocorders toward the health care/grandparent murdering debate…

(via Andrew Sullivan)

Joe Biden, it appears, can be rather eloquent if he really, really, really sets his mind to it…