It's the H.O.P.H.O.P.O. with Stephen Colberg.

Welcome back. He is the 47th Vice President of the United States.

Please welcome Vice President Joe Biden.

Thank you for being here. Everybody likes Joe Biden, right?

Isn't that right?

I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why I think that is.

I think it's because when we see you, we think that we're actually seeing the real Joe Biden.

You're not a politician who has created some sort of facade to get something out of this or triangulate your political position or emotional state to try to make us feel a certain way.

We see the real you. How did you maintain your soul in a city that is so filled with people who are trying to lie to us in subtle ways?

I commuted every day for 36 years.

So it was going back to Delaware to get another piece of your soul every day?

So look, what always confuses me about some folks I've worked with.

Is why in God's name would you want the job if you couldn't say what you believed?

There's nothing noble about this, but ask yourselves the question.

Would you want a job that, in fact, every day you had to get up and you had to modulate what you said and believed?

If you're going to run, you're running for a reason. You want the job for a reason.

And if you can't state why you want the job, then there's a lot more lucrative opportunities, other places.

I can't imagine what it would be like to spend nine years pretending to be somebody that you're not.

I'm going to get in trouble. I feel it coming.

But, Mr. Vice President, there's another reason I think that people admire you and like you is that you're a man of substance.

People know that you have experienced tragedies in your life, and we are inspired by the way that you have responded to those.

And for myself, and I think I suspect for millions of people out there, I'd like to offer my condolences for the loss of your son, Bo.

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