--- title: Joe Biden Eats Ice Cream With Jimmy Fallon on 'Tonight Show' description: The nation's greatest ice cream enthusiast, Joe Biden, took to the 'The Tonight Show' where he proceeded to eat ice cream with Jimmy Fallon. canonical: https://time.com/4514628/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-30T16:08:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:12.473Z og:title: Watch Joe Biden Eat Ice Cream With Jimmy Fallon og:description: The VP tries out Ben & Jerry's 'The Tonight Show' flavor og:url: https://time.com/4514628/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadc40b8bce8c3443/6988a82df887dc5171e979d5/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 4 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Joe Biden Eat Ice Cream With Jimmy Fallon twitter:description: The VP tries out Ben & Jerry's 'The Tonight Show' flavor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadc40b8bce8c3443/6988a82df887dc5171e979d5/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joe Biden Eating Ice Cream With Jimmy Fallon Is the Only Thing You Need to See Today > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 30, 2016 4:08 PM UTC  Joe Biden during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 29, 2016 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Joe Biden during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 29, 2016 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 30, 2016 4:08 PM UTC Vice president and [national treasure Joe Biden](http://time.com/4439262/barack-obama-birthday-joe-biden/) might be the [nation’s most famous ice cream enthusiast](http://time.com/4408008/joe-biden-ice-cream-obsession/), which is why it only makes sense that he enjoy an ice cream cone on-air. The VP made an appearance on _The Tonight Show_ _Starring Jimmy Fallon_, where he proceeded to try the show’s [Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor, “The Tonight Dough”](http://time.com/3712943/jimmy-fallon-new-ben-jerrys-flavor/) alongside Fallon. Better yet, Fallon provided Biden with not only an ice cream cone, but a pair of sleek aviators so that they could recreate Biden’s oft-invoked moment where he licks an ice cream cone while holding a fistful of dollar bills and wears a pair of dapper aviators. > [](https://twitter.com/meredithfrost/status/754756334957068288) Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4514628/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4514628/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream/"},"headline":"Joe Biden Eating Ice Cream With Jimmy Fallon Is the Only Thing You Need to See Today","datePublished":"2016-09-30T16:08:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:12.473Z","description":"The VP tries out Ben & Jerry's The Tonight Show","url":"https://time.com/4514628/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Joe Biden","jimmy fallon","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadc40b8bce8c3443/6988a82df887dc5171e979d5/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadc40b8bce8c3443/6988a82df887dc5171e979d5/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 4","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 4","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4514628/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream/","name":"Joe Biden Eating Ice Cream With Jimmy Fallon Is the Only Thing You Need to See Today"}}]}] ```