FTA-TV Veep

[Caesar]

The creator of The Thick Of It and In The Loop. Stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as VP of the USA and Tony Hale (amongst others) as one of her advisers.

First episode premiered in the US on the weekend, watched it last night. Pretty solid. Definitely enough to get me to come back next week.

 

[Warsaw]

No Malcolm Tucker clone, which is probably a good thing. No one could replace Peter Capaldi.

 

[jo172]

Very solid

 

[raven echo]

Will give any show that has a former Seinfeld star a chance. Enjoyed it a lot. Will tune in again.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus still looks fantastic.

 

[jefffff34]

Anything by the East End Thug is good for me.

 

[stringerbell]

Love the production staff on this.

Iannucci producer, Simon Blackwell as a writer, Tristam Shapeero directing.

Even Chris Morris is signed up to direct an episode. CHRIS MORRIS!!!!!

Looks great, hopefully he can get The Thick of It back sooner rather than later though

 

[September_Glory]

Veep - HBO comedy.

Did you know HBO did comedies? I didn't.

This is a snappy political comedy that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine from Seinfeld) and like most HBO shows, it's of high quality.

First two episodes are out and I thought they were very, very funny. Just a crazy volume of jokes thrown in. The banter and piss-taking is first class and Louis-Dreyfus is damm good in the main role.

I'm in

 

[NitroFan]

Re: Veep - HBO comedy.

Did you know HBO did comedies? I didn't.

notsureifsrs but curb your enthusiasm for starters, which also stars someone from seinfeld

 

[checkraiseulite]

Re: Veep - HBO comedy.

quality show.

check out eastbound and down for another hilarious hbo comedy starring this guy:

 

[Righteo]

Re: Veep - HBO comedy.

Did you know HBO did comedies? I didn't.

This is a snappy political comedy that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine from Seinfeld) and like most HBO shows, it's of high quality.

First two episodes are out and I thought they were very, very funny. Just a crazy volume of jokes thrown in. The banter and piss-taking is first class and Louis-Dreyfus is damm good in the main role.

I'm in

Like NF I couldn't be more astounded that you know Seinfeld and HBO but not CYE

 

[year of the roo]

Re: Veep - HBO comedy.

Flight of the Conchords? Entourage?

 

[Mr_Bojangles]

Re: Veep - HBO comedy.

Will be interesting to see if Armando Iannucci can make his comedy work on American TV, easily one of my favourite comedy writers next to Arthur Mathews and Graham Lineham (Father Ted, Big Train etc). The 'Racist Police Horses' and 'Village Sniper' sketches from the Armando Iannucci show almost had me laugh my lungs up.

No US version of Malcolm Tucker is a start.

 

[Juicy1]

Solid opening, will watch this again.

 

[Equus]

Season 2 has been given the go-ahead I think.

 

[Brad Goodman]

HBO doesn't do comedies? What about Arli$$*?

*Wasn't all that funny but was still a comedy.

 

[September_Glory]

Haven't watch CYE for 2+ years now, completely slipped my mind!

Entourage is not so much a comedy as it is a pile of s**t.

...

Went back and watched his earlier work, "The Thick of It". Loved it. High quality.

Good news on s2

 

[Gasometer]

This is funny!

 

[red+black]

Search function.

 

[Gasometer]

The quality of Veep has not dropped off...if anything the characters have got more endearing.

Selina is gold...!

 

[raven echo]

Great first episode back

Julia Louis-Dreyfus kills it in this role.

 

[mandy]

Waited sooooooo long for this. Welcome back!

 

[stringerbell]

Anything by the East End Thug is good for me.

Johnny Franks? From the estate?

Sorry about responding to a year old post with a reference that no one will get.

Carry on.

 

[Caesar]

Love this show. Preventing me getting withdrawal symptoms now that The Thick Of It is finished.

 

[childeric]

I'll watch Julia L-D in anything

 

[jo172]

Bit of a role reversal for Bob Russell!