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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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first: 2017-03-20
most recent: 2017-03-20
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I got to find somebody that I like. You don't like President Mark Zuckerberg. Well, look, the man in the yellow hat from Curious George, technically he works at the zoo. I'm assuming that's a public post. So I'm going to go with that as far as public servants go. I think that's going to be...”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But Paul Especially in the thing about him this whole time is that he's been a policy guy and then he puts out this piece of policy that is just abject shit. And he's just like, oh no, no, no, no, I'm a policy guy. And that's his defense for when Trump says or does something terrible. He's like, I'm not going to respond to the day-to-day things. I'm just a policy guy. But it turns out he's terrible at that too. He is a super despicable guy. And I think he's the one that I'm sort of against. I don't know. Should I go out on a positive note? Yeah. You”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who do I hate? Right now I gotta say McConnell. I just think what he did over the last eight years, the Supreme Court thing and the game he's playing right now, and just another guy from us, I'm not going to say flyover state, but a small state sort of living off the sort of the fat of, if you will, New York and California and whatnot, and yet just acting quite despicable about his own people. Anyway, my opinion.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's not, but I think you're going to see more of it, I think, in the sort of the role of the opposition. I think he will reembrace one of the things about Al that I think is a wonderful thing is for the last eight years under Obama, I think he was really trying to get along with the other side despite the fact that they refused to vote for anything. And, you know, one of the things about the Trump world, and again, throw stuff at me if you are a fan of his, whatever, the way that he has sort of opened up this Pandora's box of racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia and all these things that just sort of, you know, you thought and hoped were kind of gone. I do think humor will be one of the great ways of sort of battling that, and I do think.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it goes back to, I think, not to whatever, but and it's not a reason unto itself, but when people were so shocked that she wasn't president of the United States or even vice president at the end of last season, I have never been happier than most people didn't figure it out and that they understood it for the, I guess I was hoping, the daring move that it was, but also that you didn't figure it out. And I'm hoping this season has a lot of that as well to it.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do a thing to my children. I'm sorry. My kids watch, my daughter in particular watches a show on the Disney channel called Jesse. Yes. Anyone has children or anything about an actress girl who is the nanny to a rich actor and actress family of 10 multicultural children. It's a fine show, whatever, in terms of that. But it is, I can't take the writing on it. My daughter watches it, and I will wander into the room sometimes, stand there for a minute, and do a couple of the punchlines before they do it, trying to teach the lesson of how to daddy do that because this is predictable and predictable is not good. I think I've only made them think I have some sort of weird power because they're still watching the damn show. But I guess that would be another thing for me with comedy. The comedies I love are the comedies that are surprising me. When I can sit there and go, this is going to happen.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What a political sense and then fall backwards, and you're winning everything. But I mean, I think, and again, this is more my own theories of comedy, but it's sort of what you said. It's like everything I've ever worked on, all I ever tried to do was sort of, I guess, to some extent, make myself laugh and on some level make my college roommates laugh. That's all I really care about. If you don't laugh, fuck you, you're wrong. I don't know what else to tell you. And if you're offended, fuck you also. I don't fucking care. I just, the joke wins. And I've been lucky enough, I can only, you know, again for myself, I've been lucky enough to work on shows where that's all that anyone cared about. And that's not true of most comedy. And that's a sad thing to say. There's a tremendous amount of comedy where that's not what's important. And I've been lucky enough to work in places where that is important. That's all I've ever cared about for me.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're hitting both genders really well or whatever, but not intentionally. We're just writing a show that we think is funny or contributing. And sometimes truthfully, in the process, like Tim said, we just try to come up with the stupidest thing and see if we can get away with it. Like the dumbest. Ultimately, falling off a chair is funnier than a witty political sentence ultimately”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I'm always encouraged by politicians we meet, like you guys nail it. I'm always, it seems like the kind of show that people watch what their significant other, it doesn't skew necessarily male or female. You know what I mean? It seems like...”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Me personally as a comedian, I just try to create things that I think are funny and I hopefully am not too detached. I came from humble roots. I do live in LA. I am on premium cable, so I have a nice career going”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, and I also made fun of flyover states. That was a bad one, too. But no, I do think that that's a strange reaction to the young people stealing things. It's like, hey, don't do that. Hey, fuck you, man.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The only thing that I have said on a lot of stupid things on the internet. The only thing that has ever got, the two biggest responses of negativity that I've ever gotten was when I said, don't steal things like art, don't steal things. Right. That's the big, like, hey, fuck you, man was the biggest response I got. And when I made fun of Jill Stein, those two things.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I do think the audience is changing. I mean, I do think, obviously, not to get all demographically, those numbers are driven also by a lot of older folks. My mother loves certain shows like Orange is the New Black, but the only way she watches it is when I give her screeners. I could spend the rest of my life trying to explain to her how to sign into Netflix, and it's literally never going to happen. So she is driving, she loves Orange is the New Black, but she is still driving some of that. Those shows your CSIs, your whatnot, and obviously, as are a lot of people, I do think that's changing, obviously, as younger people are simply cutting.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Totally different set of it's the Bing Bang theory and the CSI and that sort of thing. Stepping out from Verrolls on Veep for a second, how do you think about the audiences that you want to be making content for, given that there is that chasm?”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With a billion dollars now going oh now. And no offense to the tech world. I really don't want to see a lot of tech people pivot into politics. I know that maybe that's not the right audience for this, but please, God, if you're like a tech billionaire, don't pivot to politics, please.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All over and it's literally argue it's the founding tenant of it, which is sort of like we're going to make fun of the king. Oh my God, the king got really upset. Well, in our new country, we're going to be able to make fun of things. It's going to be okay. And they did that there. I mean, not to get all Hamilton-y, but if you get into a lot of the, you know, even the Federalist papers, which obviously were sort of calm, but a lot of the back and forth in the early sort of Hamilton versus Jefferson, vicious, angry, vicious, sometimes funny, but vicious. It's just downright America, I think, in a really good way. And I do think it's still very much the escape, which is also that if things aren't great, that you can sort of find a way to laugh at it. I do think that's part of it.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. I don't know. It seems like it just seems like. Pretty good. I haven't seen it or heard it yet. Is it good I think that hating politicians and making fun of them is as American as Apple Pie. And I feel like no matter what, that's just a, you can fall over and it's literally...”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The great secret of the White House, and one of my sort of, not regrets, but it was something I always wanted to do, but Armando had already sort of established it the other way, is the White House is falling apart. And our offices on the show are way nicer. Like most people are just jammed into what looked like they were linen closets and it's just old and falling apart. There's furniture everywhere. But it felt weird to sort of try and add that after the fact. But I was always very obsessed with. It's still pretty cool. No, no.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But one of the things I found out on that tour was the famous photo during the bin Laden raid of everybody in that little room. I asked, like, we were in the big situation with the big chairs and the big TV, and I asked, why wasn't that in here? And the guy hesitated in answering for a second and didn't really answer, and I kind of pressed him again, like, no, why wasn't that in that room that we were just in? And he said, like, well, we couldn't. We couldn't get the uplink to work in this room. Their internships work.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So just the famous people, they just let you in, and halfway through, they figure out that you're not supposed to be in there. It is an absolute shit show, and that was a good administration. I don't know what, I don't know. I feel like they would let you control. The thing to a drone, if you ask nicely right now.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wanted to walk you across the street because then you get to go into the West Wing. And so then I ended up going on a tour of the West Wing with really small group tours. They walked you through the whole thing and it was great. And we walked past the situation room. And I said, what's that? And the guy said, That's the situation room. And he's like, but nobody's allowed in there. Like, you have to be. Have to plan way ahead, and you have to be super famous to get in. Like, it's really not a thing. And as he's saying that, a guy opens the door, looks at us, and sees the two people goes, hey, do you guys want to come into the situation? How was it? And then we got in there And they were kind of showing us around”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we were there and I got to go. This has happened every single time that I've gone to the Eisenhower office is that somebody while you're going through the Eisenhower office because it's on the same campus as the White House in the West Wing and everything, somebody will be like, you know, we're really not supposed to do this, but I'm going to walk you across the street. It's happened every time.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But that goes back to, by the way, Wall Street. I mean, Wall Street was a movie about how this is the worst man in the world, Gordon Gecko. And they all started dressing like him and wearing those decorated suspenders and whatnot and acting like Gordon Gecko. I mean, it's like mafia guys acting like the godfather. They loved it”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That happens on Silicon Valley. They're all like, oh, they think Silicon Valley people love them. And I'm like, they hate you and they're making fun of you. And they're like, oh, we look so cute. I'm like, they hate you. Like, it's really funny. And that's not me. And I'm like, oh, that's you because I told them that was you. It's a really interesting phenomenon. Same thing on billions. I've been talking to hedge fund guys and they all think they're acts.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This happens Across the board, every politician that I have met and that all of us have met thinks the show is making fun of every single person but them. Right, right. That is a cross. Democrats think it's a Republicans.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've not met Spicer, but I met talked to Carney and DeeDee Myers and Mike McCurry and a lot of press secretaries. And it's fascinating. And kind of what Dave says, they... You don't necessarily get what they want you to get. They'll say something offhanded, and you're like, oh, that's really gold. So it is wonderful to meet them. And especially the staffers, because they really kind of give you the real gossip, like how it gets made behind the scenes or when something screws up, like who's going to get fired or who's going to get blamed. That's something I've learned on the show is when you see something awful happen on camera, you can just imagine what's going to happen the minute that guy gets off stage. Like, who's going to get yelled at and who's going to get fired?”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not sure on the internet you can see me rolling my eyes but just you know and sometimes it's funny you're asking them a story and this has been true for my life in comedy like even back in my old Saturday night live days you'd call like a doctor to ask them something and they're trying to tell you what they think is funny which is awful because they're telling you what they think is funny but then inadvertently when they're telling you some other stuff you're like oh my god that's gold like the way that guy just said that I got to write that down and make sure we sort of use that and that happens all the time and we absorb it and you know and it is important we'll send the scripts out one of our guys Eric Lesser who is a state senator now in Massachusetts but was on the Obama team he'll sometimes like his only note on a script will be like one like a one word change and he'll say that would be called like a backbench congressman because they'd be lower level or something like that and you kind of go okay but that little change just makes the show”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But since I kind of came into the picture, we've done a field trip to DC, we've sat with not just the actual congressmen and senators, which is wonderful, but people from all levels. So you get staffers and stuff who, of course, whisper really fun little things to you that you just sort of write down in your notebook and add. And this last summer we didn't make it to DC, but we had loads of people in. So we had in Aaron Shocky, the congressman with the Downton Abbey office that were alleged Downton Abbey office who's now fighting a corruption thing. Well, giving him the benefit of the donkey.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We have all these great consultants, and obviously, again, I think some of it is a credit to Armando, who before he created the show, really spent time in D.C. and found guys so that there were, and you can look this up on the internet. It's all pre-me. There are guys that sort of Jonah Ryan is based on. And there are guys that like, you know, Danny is based on and whatnot. So there were some original models. Some of them are different.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we talked about this earlier. I happen to be a Silicon Valley consultant, so some of those things, how people talk, we do tell them exactly how it works. And then people think it's a joke, which is the best part. But you guys did that, you were one of the early people who did that, right? And you have Frank Rich and others.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Quiet the blows, but on the internet, it's just her chance of winning 90%, her chance of winning 71%, 55%, 29%. You're just like, what the? Fucking New York Times meter that kept doing that. But it was like bodyblow, rotation blow. It was awful. And we were there trying to not only be funny for us, but also we were sort of doing something about voting and elections and whatever. I mean, it was surreal, and that is Veep sometimes, is that surrealness. I remember that.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll tell you something crazy the night, the election night, we were shooting, but you were there. One of the storylines that, again, sort of a bit of a little spoiler for you guys, Selena Meyer as former president of the United States, gets invited over. And obviously funny enough, there is a Russian connection. She gets invited over to Georgia, the Republic of Georgia, to oversee an election as former presidents often do. And it's sort of a very sort of Russian situation where, you know, there's sort of a oligarch in power and then another guy who's the voice of the people. And what's in it for Selena, but we were shooting sort of her at the voting booths where everyone was sort of dipping their fingers in the color to say they voted and trying to do this while the returns were coming in. And we didn't have television. So we only had the internet.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The day, one of the days that I was like, I am fucking done with Twitter. Until I get home. That's the promise that I made myself. I was going to go through this in time that I get home and it was the day that the dossier about the P-tape was released. So I got home. You had to take hours of pee jokes.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The way, and again, this is the kind of thing where I would kill right now to go 100 years in the future and just get to read the sixth grade textbook about these four. This is all part of the show. I mean, the firing is to distract us from sessions. I mean, who knows? And again, this is sort of my own political.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because, I mean, I am honestly, I want to know the moment it all goes south for him. I want to find out within five seconds, I want to know when it's all over. So there's that. But then there's also that thing of like, what new fresh hell is this? And I've been trying to not live in the fresh hell. Like trying to give myself six hours off from the fresh hell.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It may have been Matt Walsh that wrote this. The idea that one of the exceptional things about America is that we are able to detach from political thinking, that at least historically that's been the case, and that I don't know, I definitely think that at least most of the things that I'm working on are most of the ways that I'm thinking about things now are through that lens because we are in a period of time in which it is somewhat impossible to not because we are close to America not being that way, not being able to detach from that. And so currently I am, at least me personally, I am sort of looking at everything through that because it is somewhat hard to escape. And I really do. I like escapist things, but it's been harder to enjoy them and also, like I've been finding myself snapped. Like sometimes I'll find an escapist thing.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I do think there is plenty of people who just want something that's funny to, I guess, escape in a simple way. That's just pure funny and a respite from the craziness. So I do think there's plenty of room for comedy that doesn't have to explain what's happening in the political world. Yeah.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It has, and it is everywhere on the internet, it's all about what's happening right now. But I do think people want escape a little bit, and I personally have shut down my Twitter, or Tim was saying he kills the app and then brings it back up.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My personal opinions, and I get that from time to time on Twitter, but don't confuse those with the show, which is very much of its own thing. And I think you are right. Everything is politics, but we definitely try and take a very non-judgmental view in politics, except maybe going, you know what, both sides are terrible. Maybe that's our view. And so hopefully even if you feel very strongly one way or another way, the two sides, you can watch the show because the show is not about Hillary is good or Trump is bad or Trump is good and Hillary is bad. You can just kind of hopefully laugh in general.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The show is decidedly nonpartisan, and we have advisors from both sides of the aisle helping us with the show. We continue to have no political party affiliation ever mentioned for Selena, for Jonah, for anyone. If you watch the show, we're constantly mixing up what's read and what's blue just to confuse you. We are not Democrats, we are not Republicans. This is about the hypocrisy of DC and politicians and, dare I say, power, just because we're in Lyndon Johnson's backyard. It's about power, the quest for power, and all those things. That has nothing to do with Trump. And so the story we did this season is, this was all laid out last June when he hadn't even, I guess, locked in the actual, I guess he just about locked in the nomination. And that is very true about the show. And so you can hate...”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It would be the, I think the mood of country would be different, but I don't think I will simply say this, and you can believe it or not believe it, what you're going to see in season six was written with no sense of Trump or Hillary winning. I guess on some level we assumed Hillary was winning, as did, I guess, many people. And I will also say, just to get this be as very clear about this as possible, I don't know how else to say this. My mentor, my comedy mentor, the person who hired me at Saturday Live was Al Franken. I donate to his campaign. I donated money to Hillary Clinton campaign. I wanted Hillary Clinton to win. I did not want Trump to win. I hate Trump. I don't know how else to say that. That being said, none of that is in the show.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We do some other stuff. It's funny there's issues that are coming up that get very political in our. We do have a little mini storyline with the debt ceiling and things and a lot of the double standards of what it means to be backed by one of these sort of crazy billionaires. Again, these are sort of little tidbits of sort of like we have sort of kind of a combo of some of these guys, your Sheldon Edelsons and whatnot and how that affects Jonah. So again, I think we're right in there in a very cutting-edge way, but we're not making jokes about what Trump tweeted last night. I think that's a really important fine line.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sort of our alternate reality is just distant enough from Trump that I do think you can still laugh at what's going on because we don't necessarily raise the specter of cancer patients being unable to afford their chemo.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I think that I do think that at least Jonah has his own world of awfulness that can be entertaining. Because another thing is not much of about the current administration is funny. I love jokes and I think that there are ways to skewer him, but a lot of this, I don't want to get caught in a trap of just making fun of him when so much of what he's doing is just truly awful. I like the fact that there is this other thing that you can laugh at it because it isn't real. Does that make sense?”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I don't know. I don't know. I think he can keep doing awful things, but I think he always thinks he's doing them for the right reasons, which is that then his right reason is to make Jonah Ryan more famous and more to. Trump directly in that because I don't know in the way of technology and the way people watch things, whatever happens, like a joke, a Trump joke is played out by noon. If Trump does something at 8.30 a.m., that joke is played out by noon, and then extra is played out over the weekend when Saturday Night Live hits it. So I'm glad that we don't have to respond to that.”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sit there and wonder when's the line? It doesn't seem like there is a bottom. I mean, like Paul Ryan is currently racing the clock against Trump being impeached to try to take away healthcare from children. So there really is no bottom. It's like, God, if he just”
2017-03-20 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Selena Meyer. We often get a lot of questions about Trump, and we've talked a lot about how Joan O'Reilly in some ways was our Trump-esque character. But I think people also forget that Selena Meyer has been Trump for five years, which is to say somebody speaking about the working man who doesn't actually want to touch the working man, somebody speaking about how she wants to drain the swamp while at the same time appointing whatever fat cat she needs to to get whatever it is she needs and line her own pockets. So these things are true. I think they were as true. A new Washington and Jefferson and obviously right now under Trump they're magnified. But I think that sort of us sticking it to the hypocrisy of politics is still very true about Veep even though right now we are focusing on what it means to be an ex-president of the United States”
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“Think certain things that have always been true about VEP, which are the double standards of politics, which are very true, not just in the Trump administration, because while I am, I lean towards sort of liberal Democrat, I can point it out about the liberals as well. You know, a lot of the Supreme Court stuff was... Tit for tat for the Biden rule and whatnot. And I'll simply say, but in terms of the notion of the double-sided nature of speaking out for the working man while hating the working man,”
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“Think that the show In my mind, does well because in a way, I'd like to believe that a lot of what it lives and dies on is true about politicians for the last couple centuries, I think. And when this recent... Like he said, it just was like, what is happening? Is this in a way, I think we made fun of normal politics in the first five seasons? And it doesn't feel normal right now. And I think with a little distance, we'll understand what normal is. So it is a blessing. I agree that we're not in the White House. And because we're submerged in the Trump administration and the madness and the horribleness, inevitably people will have that lens and they will see connections that maybe we unconsciously or the writers unconsciously are just because we are living in the same world.”
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“Clinton with his Clinton Foundation and whatever the hell he's up to, all of this is now in the mix. And in general, we are still commenting on politics, but we are thank God, not in the White House, because I do believe that would have been White House? No, I am so glad I am not in the White House. Really? I am so glad because there's no way of doing it. I feel sorry for the House of Cards, guys. I feel sorry for scandal. I don't see how, because on any given day, if you look back on our stories, talk about last year when we did the big tweeting story where that seemed shocking. President tweeting, whatever. That story would be worthless. I mean, it would be beyond worthless right now. If that was airing now, I think you'd look at the show as, what is this thing? What's going on? And so I think the fact that we are out of the White House and we'll hopefully get a little distance, believe me, we're still commenting on politics and what people want out of it and whatnot. But I think the discussion.”
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