Is it some kind of deep mystery why all of the late night comics have spent the last 3 years going easy on Joe Biden? I don’t think so. But to be fair, the article does offer some answers that I haven’t seen in print before.
The story starts with the largest Democratic fundraiser of all time, which featured Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at Radio City Music Hall. The event was moderated by Stephen Colbert:
Colbert’s ultra-friendly exchanges with Biden, Obama and Clinton as emcee of the largest Democratic fundraiser ever — it raised a whopping $26 million for Biden’s reelection effort — were emblematic of a new era in late night comedy. It’s more proudly partisan. More one-sided. More cautious in its targets. And it’s generally soft on Biden.
By any metric, Biden is a rich vein of material for late night or sketch comics. He arrived in the White House with a…
