Tom Shillue on Playing Biden: Biden Doesn’t Stutter, It’s ‘He Can’t Remember What He’s Saying’

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SHILLUE: "Well, he has changed. When I first started doing it on 'Gutfeld!,' Greg had a Saturday night show, so it was a few years ago, during the last campaign, and Joe Biden had energy and he was confrontational, like, 'Come on, man,' there was a lot of that. And I had a little more energy than the regular Joe Biden, but it was basically you could understand everything he said. Now, as Joe has aged, I've had to change the way that I do it, because, you know, Greg and I agreed to not make fun of the stutter, because during the campaign, 'I had a stutter as a kid, it's a disability,' so we said, 'Okay, we're not going to do the stutter.' But then I realized, a couple years in, it's not a stutter, it's just he can’t remember what he is saying. It's this kind of stammer and it's based on his lack of memory and his inability to think quickly. So I said, 'Let's just go for it,' so I started doing more of an imitation of him, and it's difficult because he just slurs his words. It's almost like he has socks in his mouth, you know. You saw that in that little snack video he did there.”