When the Veep forged reunited on Sunday night time, the viewers who tuned into the dwell desk learn occasion was warned, “No canine or cats have been eaten throughout the making of this program.” The message — a dig at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (an analogous one got here the night time prior on Saturday Night time Reside ‘s political opener) — was delivered in voiceover by Gary Cole, who performed Kent Davidson, senior strategist to star Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer, who served as each the forty fifth and forty seventh president of the HBO’s present model of the USA. The subsequent introduction got here from Matt Walsh, who performed Meyer’s press secretary, Mike McLintock.
“Many individuals assume that Kamala Harris is Selina Meyer,” he mentioned in character, stumbling by the speech. “Im right here to say she 100% is..
. not . Kamala Harris is not Selina Meyer and Selina Meyer is not Kamala Harris.
Selina Meyer is, nonetheless, one of many different candidates working for president this 12 months. Selina Meyer is Donald Trump.” The opening was pitch-perfect for the viewers of greater than 20,000 Veep followers who acquired a Zoom hyperlink after donating to the night time’s sponsor, the Democratic Social gathering of Wisconsin, in hopes of electing Harris and working mate Tim Walz into the White Home for 2024.
(And who’re in on the final word Veep joke that Meyer is Trump.) And it was solely a style of the practically two-h.
