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Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden Spots Bobby Clarke on SNL
By Russ Joy
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We interrupt your early morning Eagles pregame ritual with a brief note from last night’s SNL. Jim Carrey, who’s done a wonderful job bringing Joe Biden to life on the sketch comedy show, led off the show’s cold open with some Philly flair:
Jim Carrey's @JoeBiden thinks he's sees Bobby Clarke in the audience on SNL. #Flyers pic.twitter.com/OmmqE0YL2S
— Russ Joy (@JoyOnBroad) October 18, 2020
Carrey is the fourth actor to take on the role over the past couple of years, joining the likes of hosts Woody Harrelson and John Mulaney, as well as long-time cast member Jason Sudeikis. While I’m not an esteemed theatre director like Anthony SanFilippo, indulge me for a moment.
I find Carrey’s take on the former Vice President to be refreshing. While Mulaney’s mannerisms were spot-on, he didn’t look the part. Harrelson’s Biden said outlandish things, but it never felt like the real thing. Carrey’s Biden, while vastly different from the one Sudeikis portrayed, provides some much-needed levity in the show’s political sketches with an unhinged hilarity harkening back to his days as a leading man in The Mask and Ace Ventura.
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Russ Joy is a commercial editor for XLMedia PLC, co-host of Snow The Goalie: A Flyers Podcast and It's Just Wrestling Podcast, and a Philadelphia Flyers writer for CrossingBroad.com. A graduate of West Chester University of PA and California University of PA, Russ is also a husband and father of four. Follow him on Twitter: @JoyOnBroad Email: russell.joy@xlmedia.com