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    <em>Saturday Night Live </em>Brings Back a Folksy and Handsy Joe Biden

    Jason Sudeikis returned to satirize the likely presidential candidate as a “tactile politician” who’s simply out of touch with current norms.
    by David Sims Apr 07, 2019 2 minutes
    Source: NBC

    Joe Biden was never ’s most compelling character, but for years, he was part of the show’s satirical firmament. As performed by Jason Sudeikis, he was a, a sharp contrast to Fred Armisen’s and Jay Pharoah’s sedate portrayals of President Barack Obama. Sudeikis traded on Biden’s public image as an animated, gaffe-prone throwback fond of folksy words like . The actor’s performance is an even milder take of him, which as a “swashbuckling, ponytail-wearing dirty uncle” who was always causing trouble at the White House.

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