Writer says cyclical nature of politics allows satire to appear to predict future, including vice-president’s run for top job
or years, British politics has echoed the ludicrous and sometimes concerning storylines of Armando Iannucci’s TV show The Thick of It. Now, with the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, campaigning to become the commander-in-chief, Americans are“Well, I knew that was going to happen,” he joked.– with audiences drawing countless parallels between Harris and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s character. “Was the HBO show Veep just a documentary filmed in the past about the future?” one X user asked.
For the writer, it was just a case of taking real-life occurrences and “pushing it in as stupid a direction as it could go”. He said the role of vice-president was determined by the president. “That’s why we chose it as a way into the comedy, because it has that ‘so near and yet so far’ tension.” “Al Gore actually told us that he’d found out there was a big Hollywood premiere on at the White House and realised he wasn’t on the list. He couldn’t ask about the list because that might look desperate, so he just made other arrangements.”
He noted that the political landscape had completely shifted since he first began satirising it. Shows such as The Thick of It assumed there was a set of rules to be followed, but scandals such as Partygate had disproved that notion.
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