Seth Meyers was stunned by Joe Biden on Thursday night, when the president was caught on a hot mic saying “no one with Biden.” The late-night host compared that moment to Steve Carell’s alter-ego from a certain other NBC show.
“Wow! It went so fast,” Meyers joked. “So he went from Uncle Joe to Scranton Joe, like, in a heartbeat.”
Biden’s remarks came after a joint press conference with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, in which they discussed what they are doing in terms of hurricane relief. The president was speaking to Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy, but what Biden said in the preface to his statement was inaudible. It’s unclear what Biden was referring to, as his next statement, “And you can’t argue with your brothers outside the house,” didn’t really clarify things.
But really, it didn’t matter a whole lot to Seth who Biden was actually talking about because he wasn’t saying it to any other member of his family, which was what mattered most.
“My question is, what were they talking about? How did this even come about?” Meyers stunned. “Also, when I first heard it, I thought ‘Is the mayor even a Biden?’ But he’s not, he’s a Murphy. Because when I use the phrase ‘A Meyers,’ I talk to other Meyers. Like when I pull my kids up nearby and say ‘For dodgeball’ No one picks mayors first’, which is fair.
Still, Meyers enjoyed the moment throughout. In contrast, the right wing was not. The late-night host also mocked Tucker Carlson’s coverage of the moment, drawing a graphic of Biden wearing sunglasses and eating ice cream — superimposed on the scene of a massive fire. Carlson compared Biden to a “mob boss” and called the exchange “pathetic.”
“Is it pathetic? Because your graphic makes him look great,” Meyers joked. “It looks like a poster from an action movie where Biden is played by Jason Statham,” he said.
You can watch Meyers’ full segment in the video above.
