Last week, Vice President Joe Biden raised eyebrows — and spawned jokes — by keeping his hands on the shoulder of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's wife for about 28 seconds. "Jesus, 28 seconds?" Jon Stewart said on Tuesday's night's Daily Show. "That's, like, three decades in groped-on-camera years." He hasn't seen anyone "so over-the-top, gratuitously handsy" since John Travolta at the Oscars, Stewart quipped.
Stewart then played the "You Only Have One Job" card: "As vice president, your mission is simple: You show up, you shake a couple of hands, you flash the pearlies, you get home in time for The Mindy Project!" But "remorse about lady-touching" is apparently "the one thing Joe Biden will not feel," he added. After a clip of Biden being Biden, Samantha Bee brings the segment on home, with some help from a little paint and deadpan humor. —Peter Weber
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