6) The Campaign Book
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.