Compared to most comedic portrayals of Biden , '' The Onion '' s was unconventional in its almost complete detachment from his real attributes . Other comedians and satirists tended to portray Biden as a well-meaning buffoon prone to gaffes , exaggerating the politician 's actual or perceived traits without making outlandish embellishments . Jim Downey — a comedian and longtime writer on '' Saturday Night Live '' — described the '' Onion '' parody as somewhat risky , because it implicitly relies on the audience 's understanding of how dissimilar it is from the real Biden . For the humor to work , Downey said readers " have to know that it 's completely wrong and arbitrary " , but readers without an existing impression of Biden may believe that the parody is referencing some of his actual characteristics . Similarly , the scholar Nicholas Holm said the character 's humor comes from two things : the " sheer unlikeliness " of his traits , and the extreme contrast with " the gaffe-prone and folksy , but generally affable , public presentation of Biden . " In his two terms as vice president between 2009 and 2017 , Biden was the subject of more than 50 articles and multiple videos in '' The Onion '' . They would sometimes publish multiple articles about Biden in quick succession , as they did for Biden 's appearance at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
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Joe Biden (The Onion)