Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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The person who decided it would be a good idea for Julia Louis-Dreyfus to tell jokes on the culminating evening of the 2020 DNC should be out of a job before Joe Biden wraps up his speech tonight.

There have been high points and low points on each of the other nights this week. But nothing compares to the full-on train wreck of Louis-Dreyfus launching into a one-liner about Donald Trump's tear-gas-infused photo-op outside the White House last June right after a video clip of Biden talking soberly about his Catholic faith and how it got him through the death of his son Beau. If cringing made a sound, its coast-to-coast roar at that moment would have been deafening.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.