"We always... sat around thinking, 'What could possibly happen?'" says "Veep" showrunner @DavidHMandel on how the hit sitcom’s writers seemed to weirdly presage real events. "But we had no idea they were just gonna steal so much from us during the Trump administration."
Dec 5, 2020 · 1:28 AM UTC
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Mehdi: “Are you gonna be bringing back ‘Veep’?”
@DavidHMandel: “Let me just say this -- we left a lot of room. We left a lot of wiggle room. In the finale, when we jumped ahead, we set up certain things...There was a method to our madness. We left a lot of openings.”
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After watching *that* video of the Michigan woman at the election hearing, @DavidHMandel laughs. “ Julia would have fired me if I handed in that scene,” he says. “Veep was funny because we had an idea of what a president is *supposed* to do,” but Trump has “destroyed satire.”
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