Happy Birthday Mr. Vice President: Our 10 Favorite Joe Biden Moments

In a 2008 appearance on Good Morning America, Joe Biden didn’t just laugh at himself; he watched himself being lampooned on Saturday Night Live and giggled like a schoolboy. “Oh God,” Biden says after seeing Jason Sudeikis play him in a skit, “I wish I had that much hair.” The Vice President’s gaffes and the sidekick status of his office have made him a favorite for satirists, who often portray Biden as the joyously unrefined counterpart to a professorial President. Articles from faux newspaper The Onion have helped build this mythology. (Sample headline: “Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway.”) On SNL, Sudeikis played a pugnacious “Big Daddy Joe” after October’s debate. “You don’t scare me, shark eyes,” he tells renowned gym rat Paul Ryan. “You wanna know my workout? When the Amtrak breaks down on my morning commute, I strip down to my tighty-whities [and] I push that b—- all the way to Washington.” Oh, how Biden must have guffawed after that one.