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Biden to make cameo on ‘Parks and Recreation’

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden just got himself a job for which his is eminently qualified — performing in a silly farce.

The vice president is set to appear on next week’s episode of the hit NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation” — which features a main character that has a crush on America’s second in command, the network said.

The show — on which Sen. John McCain has also appeared — stars “Saturday Night Live” alum Amy Poehler as the deputy parks director of the fictional small-town of Pawnee, Ind.

Poehler’s character, Leslie Knope, has described her perfect man as someone who would “have the brains of George Clooney and the body of Joe Biden.”

During an episode last season, Knope announced that “Joe Biden is on my celebrity sex list — well, he is my celebrity sex list.”

The upcoming Biden cameo was taped back in July and includes shots around Washington and scenes filmed in the vice president’s Ceremonial Office, also known as the Office of the Secretary of the Navy.

Biden, who is thought to be positioning himself for a presidential run in 2016, made a late campaign appearance on David Letterman’s “Late Show” to encourage early voting in a “Top Ten” list.

“It’s vastly more effective than voting late,” he joked.

The veep has been one of President Obama’s most loyal surrogates, having stumped in Pennsylvania, Ohio and other battlegrounds.

His appearance on “Parks and Recreation” was kept hush-hush until after the election.

Luckily for the gaffe-prone Biden, the show was prerecorded.

He has a well-earned a reputation for making mistakes while speaking off script, both in DC and on the campaign trail.

At the ObamaCare bill-signing ceremony in 2010, he was caught on video dropping an F-bomb while hugging the president.

“This is a big f–king deal,” Biden had said.

He also forgot it was the 21st century during an August campaign speech in Blacksburg, Va., saying, “Folks, where’s it written we cannot lead the world in the 20th century in making automobiles?”

While campaigning last month in Ohio, he made a geographical goof while blasting, Romney, stating, “This is the guy who’s running all the ads here in Iowa.”

He is the first sitting veep to appear in a sitcom since Dan Quayle made a cameo on “Major Dad” in 1990. On that show, Quayle was supposed to attend a gala celebrating the Marine Corps’ 215th birthday but was unable to go. He was paid $2,155 for the appearance and donated his salary to the USO.

But Quayle’s most famous comedic episode came at a spelling bee in New Jersey in 1992, when he corrected a 12-year-old’s spelling of potato by wrongly adding an “e” at the end.