A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP

It's been a great season so far.

yeah keeps getting better. I worry that they might be overusing Jonah though. He was a lot funnier as the obnoxious DC insider prick than the walking punching bag he is now.

"I have to go to the bathroom - do they have a bathroom here or do they put their turds up in the cloud?"

The last 2 ep's have been so savagely funny!

Jonah is the Chang of this show and he is following a Chang-like trajectory

i dont even know what that means but it cant be good

He starts off as the external antagonist vested with undeserved authority/power over the core group, uniting them in their shared antipathy for him, but the show strips him of that authority and decides to reduce him to an erratic outlandish caricature who still sort of flits around the edges of the show but with less purpose and in a less interesting way.

I was happy when it looked like his site was going to be bought out because I thought they were re-establishing him as a thorn in the team's side in a new context, but it turned out to be just another set-up for him to fall on his face. But who knows maybe next episode he'll join up with the oil lobby and become Sidney Purcell's protege.

who was Chang?

a character in TV sitcom Community

still is, at time of press

oh man, that seems about right. They need to get Jonah back into the white house. Or on Gov Chung's campaign team.

anyway, this show doesn't get enough credit for how much plot it manages to pack into half an hour. This episode alone had anti-fracking mom, Selina and Craig (Craaaaaaiiiig...) at Clovis, the Amy/Melissa/Kent thing, the Gov Chung torture story (Dan doesn't even realise that Ben did the same thing to him as he did to Jonah), the subplot where everyone thinks Gary is gay, SMARCH, Meet/Meat/Meating Meyer and they still have time for throwaway gags like the Ron Jeremy/Jeremy Irons confusion.

I'd say season 3 has been as good as peak ITTOI.

Dan doesn't even realise that Ben did the same thing to him as he did to Jonah

this was beautiful, especially as Ben didn't even try to hide it

xps

OTM about Veep's dense plotting/writing, makes it extremely re-watchable and often better on repeat viewings. Also some great lines aren't even in the episodes but in deleted scenes, e.g. Mike response to Leon West question about when Selena knew a hitchhiker was a spy.

"post-tax"

everybody luvva da showbiz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da5tjfpKyac

New episode is masterclass stuff.

some say three microwaves is overkill, my response is always ~tapas~

admit it, we're all a little bit Ray-curious.

"cancel search siri"

tony hale/jld laughing fit bathroom scene is so good

this season >>

yeah, great wind up

shd i be watching this? p4reene seems to like it.

i think it's some of the best teevee on teevee

easy enough, if you liked in the loop, you'll like this too

figured a show where all politicians are awful, self-obsessed, disingenuous prats would be total morbs bait

tony hale/jld laughing fit bathroom scene is so good

Jonad lives

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/charles-johnson-thad-cochran-mississippi

It was the latest twist in the rancorous, messy feud enveloping the Mississippi GOP — and Johnson was right in the middle of it. He followed up the story, which was published on his own website, gotnews, with an avalanche of defiant tweets.

"You establishment hacks do know that I've been threatened with lawsuits, death threats before, right?" he wrote in one. "I planned on this."

He took on former Mitt Romney adviser Stuart Stevens, who mocked the bribery allegations and referred to Johnson as a "fringe" blogger. Johnson said Stevens had "praised" him in the past and threatened to publish private direct messages between the two.

All the while, Johnson engaged in relentless self-promotion. He bragged that his story had been picked up by the likes of Fox News, Breitbart and Rush Limbaugh (although he lamented that Sean Hannity didn't cite him by name.) And he used the spotlight to give attention to his efforts to raise money for his "awesome projects."

"Oh I know this annoys people but send me some research money. Because I am kicking ass," Johnson wrote in another tweet, providing a link to his page at gofundme.com where supporters can donate money to his cause.

hahaha okay that is uncanny

Oh my god freaking OOUUUTTTT over Selina vs. Gary blow-up

it was pretty awesome yes. thought for sure he was fired.

what happened on labour day

outlook unclear, try again later
http://tvline.com/2015/04/19/veep-season-4-selina-gary-fight-labor-day/

the banana doesn't work gag

this thing has gotten way to big, its like my moms cat

I love the pace of this.

hitler bunker

"Richard T. Splatt. I don't know why I said T, my middle name is John."

Pairing up Richard and Jonah is almost the best thing they've ever done.

I've been rewatching a few episodes from season 1, and they feel so empty. They've really created a world over time.

yes, this show has gotten so classic. i love that iannucci is now expanding the universe to lobbyists.

i have been loving this

Richard is an A+ addition to the show; dude's comic timing is excellent
i like that the more power JLD gets, the worse of a human being she becomes
the basic iannucci principle seems to be that the best thing about absolute power is that you don't have to take responsibility for your actions

this show is never not funny per se but sometimes the cringe comedy style is grating

I feel like this show is missing a malcolm tucker type and that's a notable if not crippling deficiency - although ben the chief of staff comes close

& while this is obviously a satire I have to say that literally everything gary does has long since passed the point of being remotely plausible behavior by a human, even for a sycophantic assistant in the beltway - maybe it's just how one-note tony hale is idk

idk i find hale's character believable. aren't there so many ppl in politics - actual politicians, and staff, etc - that you wonder how they made it so far considering how bizarre they are? and the answer is normally that the entropy of the system creates a condition where you met the right person and ten years later you're still working with them.

adding hugh laurie's character was a total masterstroke imo, he's the malcolm tucker of this bullshit

"I don't care if you're a 1950s radio broadcaster. your fozzie bear's been ripped up and used to smuggle heroin. *points to ken* and nazi doctor...*points to gary* and I don't even know what the fuck you are!!!*

not quite as good as malcolm's "sanitarium for the fuckin deaf" rant but close

ben is great but he has a weariness and lack of concern w/power that you wouldn't see in malcolm

malcolm was like the omar of ttoi, the villain with a heart of gold, everyone on earth petrified of him, a supernatural being almost, with the power to bestow life or death

richard is completely all-time at this point

feel like the show has gotten a little slower, more telegraphed, more curb-y, not a bad thing though necessarily