Silicon Valley producers admit to having a Veep-like problem because satirizing the tech industry is difficult these days

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The real Silicon Valley is changing too fast and becoming too Orwellian for the HBO Silicon Valley, executive producer Alec Berg admitted on stage at the HBO comedy's final season premiere in San Francisco this week. "It makes it harder to be silly, when things are so grave," says Berg. "In a way we have a similar thing to Veep. It was just time for Veep to hang it up, because satire is about making things more extreme to show their ridiculousness. How do you make things more extreme when they're already off-the-charts extreme?" Co-creator Mike Judge adds that "in the beginning it was more fun-absurd. These guys (in tech) were just pompous blowhards back then, and now ..." "They moved fast and they broke things," said Berg, who often finishes Judge's sentences, referencing Facebook's infamous early slogan. "They broke things like the world," Berg added, chuckling darkly.