10 Times Veep’s Ridiculous Antics Mirrored Real Life Events

HBO's Veep is one of the funniest shows on television, an absurd parody depicting the day-to-day operations of a vice president and her staff. The West Wing this is not; our main characters don't deliver inspiring speeches about the nature of democracy or hold impassioned debates over the future of the country. Instead, they spend their entire day discussing what flavor of frozen yogurt Selina Meyer should eat during a photo op or dealing with a small blemish on the VP's face.

Brendan Morrow

Published: May 14, 2016 01:24 pm

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6) The Campaign Book

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Speaking of Hillary Clinton, Selina Meyers’ campaign book, “Some New Beginnings,” is generally a spoof of all the insincere, ghostwritten memoirs politicians release prior to launching a presidential campaign. But when Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices hit store shelves in June 2014, two months after the Veep episode, fans of the show couldn’t help but chuckle.

Executive producer Frank Rich said in an interview that he definitely saw a similarity between the two books.

“[Hard Choices] was exactly like Selina’s book…it was completely anodyne, you know; Progress will come in the future, we’ll meet at the crossroads of hope and change, and whatever.”

Granted, that pretty much describes every political memoir ever published, but seeing Clinton’s released while the Veep episode was so fresh in viewers’ minds made the whole ordeal especially funny.

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