And who held the noose? None other than the former Senate Judiciary Committee Chair and current Veep-Elect, the one and only, Joe Lunchbucket!
It was Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio who started up the circus by arranging for his staffer to leak Anita Hill's statement that she had made to the FBI (remember the term, "raw files"?) to an ink-stained wretch for Long Island Newsday.
But you're right, Joe Biden was the ringmaster -- both for the Clarence Thomas hearings, and for the joke of a hearing that made Judge Bork's name a verb.