Karen Tumulty: Joe Biden has to lose the ‘Uncle Joe’ schtick and go for jugular

Joe Biden has a laugh at the correspondents' dinner. Photo: Tom Brenner/Reuters

Karen Tumulty
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Were he ever to consider a career in stand-up comedy, Joe Biden would be well advised to keep his day job. But delivering big laughs was not the US president’s mission when he appeared before a black-tie audience of 2,600 journalists and Washington power players at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

Where he has ordered White House aides not to speak publicly about Donald Trump’s legal troubles, Biden himself mocked the seamy scandal that has the former president spending his days in a Manhattan courtroom.