Slate blogged along as President Biden delivered his post-midterms State of the Union. You can read below about all the jokes, jeers, and Bidenisms—and at least one surprising outfit.

A Ranking of Presidential State of the Union JokesFrom passing notes to making vomit jokes, our commanders-in-chief have taken some comedic risks.

So it was only fitting that, in his final State of the Union Address, the president made a reference to the state that will open the process for choosing his successor in 20 days. In one of the ...

President Joe Biden cracked jokes about his age and reiterated his ability to run the country during his State of the Union address on Thursday. As he neared the end of his speech, Biden, ...

“I am seeing a lot of jokes, Chinese spy balloon jokes ... and was involved in security for previous State of the Union addresses, told Yahoo News that fears of an incident during Tuesday ...

State of the Union speeches are typically written over ... He's dubbed this the "infrastructure decade," a play on the running jokes about the "infrastructure day" that never came to fruition ...

You know fairly quickly when the speech didn’t work: People start making jokes and the jokes gel ... they were calling Joe Biden’s State of the Union the most important speech of his career ...

President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address on Thursday ... well-documented concerns about his age, cracking a joke. “I know I may not look like it, but I’ve been around ...

If I were smart, I’d go home now,” he said. The joke acknowledged the stakes of the evening’s State of the Union address. Conventional wisdom held that Biden had little to gain—the ...

On the evening of March 7, 2024, Biden addressed the U.S. Congress for 68 minutes in the annual State of the Union speech ... original post saying it was a “Joke right now.