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I don't know why but when Jonads new assistant made the comment about his brother getting hazed and not responding well to it I just lost it. The way he delivered it was hilarious to me

also funny star wars reference at the end

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I assume it's because she's a talented actress really

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This episode was on fuckin point tonight

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MOVIE MAJICK posted:

Brooklyn 99, a poo poo comedy show, gets 500x the goon attention Veep does.

B99 is awesome tho?

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Dazerbeams posted:

Do we know the viewer numbers on Veep? Because this thread isn't terribly active and thats how I gauge show popularity.

yeah you might want to reconsider that as a metric

unless you think nobody watches modern family or big bang theory

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so what is TTOI

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Dazerbeams posted:

Wasn't Selina confessing to Ben about how he was being replaced by Karen in the earlier scene? I felt bad for Ben until he started snoring in the middle of her "let him down gently" speech. Karen will probably threaten everyone's sense of competency and they'll try to sabotage her.

This is correct.

Also to whoever mentioned when they re-detained the journalist, yeah, that was hilarious.

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something clever posted:

I thought she was acting manic because of the lack of sleep. I may have misinterpreted that though.

It was lack of sleep + too much caffeine, don't read into it beyond that. Thats why the other guy was taking sleeping pills

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zoux posted:

You may not know but that's Kiefer Sutherland's daughter.

Coincidentally, donald sutherlands grand daughter

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A bunch of tall women were recently molested and Jonah was one of them.

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Air is lava! posted:

So Patton Oswald regulary molested people? That's kind of sad.

No actually they made it pretty hilarious

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pentyne posted:

Yeah, a bunch of tall women with short hair who look like Jonah were the other victims.

You didn't think that was funny?

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Velisarius posted:

I dislike the fact that the characters are splitting up more into groups and spending time away from each other. The previous seasons were amazing due to the greater amount of interaction.

Agreed with this one, but then again, they are replacing some interactions with other funny interactions like the house guy coming in

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Orange Devil posted:

Also everyone please stop calling Hugh Laurie House. He was good in that sure, but the man has a long, long history as a very talented comedy actor. Seriously, if you haven't seen Blackadder or A Bit of Fry & Laurie then 1. shame and 2. go do that.

I have a better idea. I call him whatever I want, and you can either continue to whine about it like a baby or disregard it like a reasonable person.

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Pron on VHS posted:

the scene with Jonah and the tall ladies was one of the funniest things I've seen on TV in years, I was loling hard.

Yeah same. I'm glad that I didn't at all notice they looked similar until he said it too, that was so god drat well played

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i think you are watching the show wrong

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Jonah's assistant is so hilarious

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Cliff Racer posted:

I think Tom will drop a crazy bomb or at least a "politcally unacceptable" bomb in the next episode or two. His writing gives me the same vibe as the writing of that crazy fitness trainer from a season ago. Someone predicted that he'd turn out to be gay and that might be a possibility. But then again that might just float around in the same way as the drug stuff from two episodes ago.

I would agree except that seems kind of dumb considering that he just did that and then talked his way out of it quite adeptly

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Cliff Racer posted:

True, but the Thick of It was sort of forced to switch after Hugh's actor was caught kind of sort of maybe looking at child (teenager) pornography.

Hmm what are you trying to say exactly

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idk, he was on house for 8 years, 10 award nominations, and $400k an episode

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Yeah theres a ton of historic precedent that prohibition and the war on drugs has been pretty wildly successful, so Tom's notions are pretty stupid.

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precision posted:

Anyone who thinks the War on Drugs actually has anything to do with drugs is more politically blind than anyone on this show.

Cool story, something awful user precision. I'm glad we have you here to lay down the incisive commentary

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Vanderdeath posted:

You could explain how it was "successful" at the very least.

If you can't tell I was being sarcastic you need to seriously re-evaluate what you're doing on this website.

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none of this has anything to do with veep

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waitwhatno posted:

Was she ever in something big, aside from Seinfeld?

Not yet :smug:

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Lycus posted:

I take it you weren't a West Wing fan.

remember that super cool post 9/11 episode

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It's really cool how every single thing that happens in this show is compared to a different show, every week


this thread loving sucks and you all suck at posting about this show

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Zombie Raptor posted:

Kent: "It's like something out of a political cartoon."
Ben: "What'ya mean? Not-funny?"

Gonna miss this show (assuming it ends when Armando Iannucci leaves--if it doesn't, I may or may not continue watching; undecided), but looking forward to the Soviet Union project Iannucci is going to work on, The Death Of Stalin.

Also, not sure how anyone can accurately compare modern political satires like Iannucci's to anything else other than the man's own work. We've had some great stuff throughout history, but when it comes to realistic nuance and the realistic absurdity that is somewhat inherent in politics, I personally can't think of an apt comparison to other writers/producers/directors, etc. working today.

Feel free to commence y'er bitchin' about how I suck now.

Edit: Sam Richardson's performance as Richard Splett is a wonderful addition to the show, and I wish he'd been around longer than, like, what? A season and a half? Fantastic character.

jw, are you going to decide before the episodes without him actually air?

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Cliff Racer posted:

Hey idiot, guess what, characters appearing at the TToI inquiry was announced in literally the exact same way (them being sworn in one by one as credits rolled.) This is because it was written by the same person. Its a deliberate call-back. There might be some less than great posts in this thread but yours is probably the worst of them.

You sound real mad, you should probably step back and think about why you're posting about the wrong show in the wrong thread before calling me an idiot for pointing that out

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I just call the first two 'shows for another thread' but its more of an internal name, I admit

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Episode kind of a dud for me so far. Mike is demonstrating the voice memo thing right now. So far the only laugh for me has been the crouch cream comment

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What is the reasoning behind out of character stuff being caused due to drug use?

E: Or more specifically, why that is the reasoning being defaulted to ITT, I should say

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mr.capps posted:

I am a bit confuse why people here and elsewhere didn't thought this episode was funny, sure there weren't as many good "lines" as usual

yea that is pretty much the sum of it i'd say

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Kampfbereit posted:

JONAH: She's playing you, like a... cheap...
RICHARD (leans in, helpfully): Like a XBOX.

He is so eager to please, and so completely useless.

He is so amazing

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I personally elect (heh, a lil humor for us) to not let these things bother, detract, or distract from my enjoyment of Veep, an HBO comedy series.


To each their own though! This is America after all!

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I wonder how many high level US politicians also had no idea you could tie an electoral vote

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Cliff Racer posted:

She's been implied to be a Democrat since day 1, they just never said the party names for some reason just like in the previous show which we aren't allowed to talk about in this thread according to that one guy.

Never let it be said that you aren't a quick learner

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There has never been an ounce of doubt in my mind that Selena was a democrat :shrug:

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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

Yeah it always seemed pretty obvious based on context. The fact that partisanship is not a big deal with regards to the humor is still really good, though. It's not a show about politics as much as it is one about politicians.

Agreed. I'm not a political person so I Like that the show is just plain funny instead of political.

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