An Italian comedian opened up the new season of his show with a spoof of Joe Biden giving a speech that quickly took the internet by storm. In it, he used some hilarious physical comedy to miss the podium a few times, sway from side to side, and mix up world leaders. Now he’s back with a second hilarious spoof of Biden, in this one using physical comedy and pretended name mix-ups to further toast the American president.
As background, the show on which the hilarious skits appeared is comedian Maurizio Crozza’s Warner Bros. Discovery skit show, Fratelli di Crozza. That name translates to “Crozza’s brothers,” and is full of Crozza’s gut-busting impersonations of public figures. Typically, he uses it to roast Italian political personalities like Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, though the recent ones have been targeted on Biden.
In the new skit, Crozza again impersonates Biden, this time in a depiction of a Biden speech outside the White House. In it, Crozza topples over and has to be picked back up and hoisted into place by Secret Service agents. That was likely a reference to when Biden fell over at the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony in the summer of 2023. The White House blamed that fall on an on-stage sandbag.
After the Secret Service agents hoist him back up to the podium, Crozza then mimics Biden’s mumbling and gaffe-filled speeches, introducing himself as “Joe Kennedy.” Continuing, he goes on to mix up world leaders, referring to the chancellor of Germany as “the great Schwarzenegger.” Biden has done things like that as well, both mixing up the leaders of Egypt and Mexico and claiming to have spoken with a long-dead French politician.
Watch the skit here:
Questions about Biden’s age have risen back to the fore after Special Counsel Hur referenced it in his report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. In the report, the special counsel said, “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory . . . It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Elsewhere, the special counsel gave examples of Biden’s failing memory. The report provided, “In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”), He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama. In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall.“
