HBO announced today that Greg Kinnear has been cast as Vice President Joe Biden, America’s fun, spontaneous uncle who remains one heartbeat away from becoming its terrifying, spontaneous dad. Kinnear will play Biden in Confirmation, the cable network’s upcoming film about the contentious Clarence Thomas Senate hearings in the early ’90s. At the time, the future vice president was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tasked with presiding over the hearings where attorney Anita Hill called Thomas’ character into question with accusations of repeated sexual harassment. Biden has been accused in subsequent years of intentionally derailing Hill’s case, blocking corroborating witnesses from testifying as part of a backroom deal.