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The Anatomy of a Veep Insult
One of the constant joys of tuning into Veep every week was sitting on the edge of your seat, waiting...
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Posted Friday 5/17/19 at 9:23AM EDT
Veep boss reveals 11 storylines you never got to see
David Mandel and his writing staff had ideas that included one inspired by George W.
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Posted Wednesday 5/15/19 at 4:33AM EDT
Veep boss explains the series finale time-jump endings
David Mandel explains how his staff arrived at each character's fate.
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Veep got the dark ending it deserves -- a hilarious indictment of the show as it once was
Julia Louis-Dreyfus' HBO comedy used to "find joy more in Selina’s monstrous behavior, perhaps because viewers could more easily defend...
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Posted Monday 5/13/19 at 4:12PM EDT
Tom Hanks had to sign off on Veep's series finale
Showrunner David Mandel explains the HBO comedy's big series finale joke.
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Posted Monday 5/13/19 at 9:34AM EDT
Veep ends with a daring and searingly funny series finale
"It's impossible not to use the word 'searing' for Veep, particularly this year, because as the finale proved in multiple...
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Posted Saturday 5/11/19 at 4:42AM EDT
Veep boss: "I would argue, if anybody is Trump, Selina is Trump"
“Not that anybody is Trump,” David Mandel said in an MSNBC interview.
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Posted Monday 5/06/19 at 7:55AM EDT
Veep boss on the penultimate episode: "We never quite figured out how far we would go"
Showrunner David Mandel says the storyline in Sunday's episode "was a possible season-ender before we knew this was going to...
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Posted Monday 4/29/19 at 9:53AM EDT
Veep boss finds the coincidental timing of Joe Biden's presidential announcement funny
"It’s just funny in that a former Vice President is coming back with a lot of people loving him, but...
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Posted Monday 4/22/19 at 9:45AM EDT
Veep boss jokes that the Mueller report was released on Thursday to make Sunday's episode more relevant
"I asked them to release the Mueller report three weeks ago so we would get a little space," showrunner David...
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Posted Tuesday 4/16/19 at 1:32PM EDT
Veep boss David Mandel is sticking with HBO
Mandel has signed a three-year overall deal with HBO after successfully taking over as showrunner from Veep creator Armando Iannucci...
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Posted Monday 4/08/19 at 8:43AM EDT
Veep's #MeToo episode was carefully written to avoid making light of sexual misconduct
"The whole world is impacted by the #MeToo movement, not just politics," says Veep showrunner David Mandel.
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Veep is going out at its nastiest and bitterest best
"Veep returns Sunday to an unnecessary and clamorous chorus of wags who wonder if the HBO comedy can, in its...
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Posted Tuesday 2/12/19 at 1:28PM EST
A leg-shaving rumor about presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar inspired a Veep joke
The Democratic U.
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Posted Saturday 2/09/19 at 12:41AM EST
Julia Louis-Dreyfus' cancer hiatus gave Veep a chance to "deviate from the plan"
"It allowed me, especially because I just became aware even more so of how the storm and drag of politics...