'It's sort of like a witch-like ability where we kind of end up accidentally predicting stuff that we think is insane,' David Mandel says of how 'Veep' mirrors the reality of modern politics.
? The bumbling political-aide-turned-presidential-candidate Jonah Ryan boasted a similar proposal on “Veep” long before Trump brought it up.
“And the hard part is we're not Saturday Night Live, we're not ... one of the nightly shows, whether it's a weekly or [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver] or something.
“And again, I'm putting authentic in quotes because it's not necessarily what he really is, but it's what people think he is. But that doomed guys like Marco Rubio and what not because they just seemed less authentic. So you know this time around now it's funny to watch this balance of people again, [saying], ‘I'm trying to say all the right stuff, but I don't want to say too much of the right stuff because then I'm not interesting.
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