The Top TV Comedies That Need to Cast Joe Biden Now That He’s With CAA
Just weeks after leaving the White House, President Joe Biden is poised to become a household name again, assuming Netflix is down to talk shop over some ice cream.
This week, Biden inked a deal with Creative Arts Agency, the L.A.-based LLC that represents many of the world’s most beloved and influential artists, athletes and 82-year-old public servants who would be perfect for whichever hospital drama needs an elderly patient to shuffle around in a robe and slippers. Before Biden assumed the presidency, CAA represented him from 2017-2020, and Richard Lovett, co-chair of CAA, expressed his gratitude to be reunited in a statement to the BBC, saying of America’s last POTUS, “His lifelong commitment to public service is one of unity, optimism, dignity, and possibility. We are profoundly honored to partner with him again.”
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What, exactly, the accomplished octogenarian who had to bow out of the 2024 presidential election due to concerns about his declining faculties hopes to achieve through his partnership with one of Hollywood’s most formidable power players remains unclear, but we have some ideas for which hit TV comedies he can profoundly honor as a guest star.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Even though Always Sunny just recently wrapped filming on Season 17, I’m sure Rob McElhenney would be happy to do some re-shoots in order to introduce FX viewers to the sixth member of the Paddy’s Pub Gang. Biden’s current place of residence in Greenville, Delaware is just 35 miles from Philadelphia, so it really wouldn’t be a hassle for Secret Service to shuttle him back and forth the next time Always Sunny recycles the running-for-office scheme. Sorry, Charlie, but The Gang just found its new Wild Card.
Tires
Again, Biden’s proximity to Pennsylvania will play a big role in his choice of projects now that he’s back with his talent agency. Manosphere darling Shane Gillis would obviously love the opportunity to roast our most recent Democratic president to his face, and Biden could easily pull off the character of a gullible, senile customer whom the a-hole mechanics of Valley Forge Automotive Center take for a ride when he comes in for a tire rotation on his 1982 Buick Skylark.
Abbott Elementary
Finishing off the theme of “sitcoms that take place in a city where Biden could reasonably be home for dinner at 4 p.m.,” Abbott Elementary is another obvious choice for the extremely elder statesman, and he’d find much friendlier treatment from Janine, Barbara and the rest of the understanding and patient teachers of Philadelphia’s most underfunded elementary school when compared to previous entries. Biden could even guest star as himself in an episode where he comes to Willard R. Abbott Elementary School on a charity visit, only to get lost in the hallways after a suspicious, lizard-people-believing Mr. Johnson deliberately sends him wandering in the wrong direction during a bathroom break.
I Think You Should Leave
Now this one may seem like a curveball at first, but ask yourself: Have we ever had a president better suited for a Tim Robinson sketch than Biden? The absurdist comedy icon has a specific type when it comes to casting one-off roles for his sketch series, and he’s always in search for eccentric old people with unusual speech patterns. And, honestly, considering how Biden performed in his final presidential debate, he wouldn’t even need a script to perform some off-beat comedy gold.
Only Murders in the Building
This is such a home-run casting that I’d be shocked if CAA didn’t open their most recent contract negotiations with our 46th President by advising Biden to get on the horn with Hulu as soon as possible. Only Murders in the Building is the go-to show for America’s most beloved, old and gray entertainers, a group that now includes Biden for reasons outside our understanding. And if, God forbid, the elderly Biden sadly passes away during production, Only Murders can spin his exit from the series as its best-ever twist — a presidential assassination would be the true-crime Holy Grail.
