A panel of comedians on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! mocked 2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden for being stuck in the past and for his seemingly age-related gaffes.
“At the Wednesday debate, everybody went after Biden and his main response was, ‘Hey, but Obama liked me!'” radio host Peter Sagal said when the panel discussion turned toward the debates. “Come on, that was years ago! It’s like the old guy who won’t stop talking about high school, right? ‘I was vice quarterback of the football team.'”
Actor Anthony Anderson joined the radio panel Sunday, which was also comprised of comedians Paula Poundstone, Adam Burke, and Aida Rodriguez. The group then went on to make fun of Marianne Williamson, whom Poundstone described as someone whose medication had worn off. “I doubt she goes for meds,” another panelist quipped. “I bet she rubs herself against an old oak or something.”
Turning back to Biden, Sagal said, “The conventional wisdom coming out of the two-night affair was that Joe Biden, who is leading by a long way the Democratic polls, all he had to do is not screw up. And he didn’t screw up. So the idea was like, ‘Oh, he’s doing great.’ Except at the very end of it, he screwed up his own website.”
Sagal was referencing Biden’s confusion regarding his campaign’s text message subscription number, which he gave out as if it were a website, saying, “Go to Joe 3-0-3-3-0.” The mistake was just one of several flubs by the former vice president during last week’s debate, which also saw him misstate the cost of California Sen. Kamala Harris’ healthcare plan, warn against eight more years of President Trump, and call New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker the future president, among other things.
“It was such a grandfatherly thing to do,” Sagal said of Biden’s technical bewilderment.
“Although ‘Joe 3030,’ it looks like he’ll be running in a thousand years’ time,” Rodriguez joked.
