Vice President Joe Biden’s opening remarks at Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s funeral had the crowd laughing non-stop.
JOE BIDEN: If there's a definition of redundant, I’m it. [Laughter] by the way, Josh; I’m representing the Pope. [Laughter] As Bonnie knows, Frank’s been calling me the only Catholic Jew he knew. [Laughter] I -- you know, Hillary, you thought the same thing I was when he was talking. I just wish the whole country could have heard all of you, not even about Senator Frank Lautenberg. Just about the definition, you are the living definition, what it means to be a successful man. I really mean that. I have, as a lot of my colleagues have, I’ve spoken at more eulogies than I like to remember. I advise you, you already broke the rule I advise people to observe. Never make a good eulogy. You’ll be asked again and again and again. [Laughter] all kidding aside, what a testament to Frank's life. Nothing any of us, including me, nothing I could say, could define what a map he was more than you've all spoken. I -- to the grandchildren, there's not a one of us who knew Frank, and I knew him for over 25 years. There’s not a one of us who knew him who didn't know all of you until I had grandchildren when I would try to match him, and then he'd stop. [Laughter] my wife says I’m the most obnoxious grandfather in the world. No, wrong. Frank was the most obnoxious. [Laughter] I -- and, by the way, Danielle, I knew Strom Thurmond so well, I did his eulogy. This is a lot easier. [Laughter] I want to tell you something, I knew Strom Thurmond well, and he would be proud of your recollection. [Laughter] he'd be proud the way you described it. [Laughter] oh, gosh, I’m about to get myself in trouble. [Laughter]