'Veep' reunion raises more than $700,000 for Harris-Walz

When the Veep cast reunited on Sunday evening, audiences tuning in to the live reading event were warned: “No dogs or cats were eaten in the making of this program.”

The message is a dig at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (a similar message arrived the night before Saturday night liveof political openness) – was spoken in voiceover by Gary Cole, who played Kent Davidson, senior strategist to Selina Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who was both the 45th and 47th president of the HBO show version of the United States.

The next introduction came from Matt Walsh, who played Meyer's press secretary, Mike McLintock. “A lot of people assume that Kamala Harris is Selina Meyer,” she said in character, stumbling over her speech. “I'm here to say that she is 100%… Not. Kamala Harris is Not Selina Meyer and Selina Meyer are Not Kamala Harris. Selina Meyer is, however, one of the other presidential candidates this year. Selina Meyer is Donald Trump.”

The opening was perfect for an audience of over 20,000 people Veep fans who received a Zoom link after donating to the evening's sponsor, the Wisconsin Democratic Party, in hopes of electing Harris and presidential candidate Tim Walz to the White House for 2024. Veep I joke that Meyer is Trump.)

And it was just a taste of the nearly two-hour event that included the entire cast reading the season three episode “Crate,” now more timely than ever (where Meyer finds out he'll become president because the current POTUS is resigning). ), as well as Q&A sessions hosted by host Stephen Colbert with real-life Wisconsin politicians, VeepThe creator of Armando Iannucci, the Veep ensemble, and a list of special guests who came in to read the roles that included Larry David, Jason Alexander, Kevin Smith, Kumail Nanjiani and a surprise guest and Veep student Patton Oswalt.

Along with Walsh and Cole, the Emmy-winning team of Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Sam Richardson, Sarah Rutherland, Clea DuVall and Sufe Bradshaw were all on hand (David read for member of the cast Kevin Dunn, who was unable to attend the event).

Donations were accepted at the event and the evening's total was more than $735,000, WisDems confirmed The Hollywood journalist on Monday. The count included six anonymous donors, who offered to give $145,000.

The staggering number will benefit the tipping point state in the 2024 election. WisDems Chairman Ben Wikler announced during the event that Harris and Trump are tied in Wisconsin, with polls reporting Harris ahead with a small margin of 1 or 2 points.

The event was so successful that WisDems will continue to accept donations (at wisdems.org/veep) throughout the week who, in exchange, will send people a replay link to watch the event. They will also keep the auction open, where selected items can be put up for bid with a raffle purchase here.

For the 2020 election, WisDems led Hollywood in a virtual reunion movement that featured casts ranging from The princess bride TO Happy daysand understood Veepcoming together for the benefit of the key conflict state. That Veep the cast reunion raised more than $500,000, followed by a crossover event with The West Wing launched in 2022 for the high-stakes midterm elections.

Selecting “Crate” comes next Veep experienced a resurgence when President Joe Biden abandoned his 2024 reelection bid and endorsed Vice President Harris. THE Veep comparisons came quickly, between Meyer and Harris (despite Meyer always being Trump-ish), plus circulating clips that include the iconic bathroom scene from “Crate” — where an elated Meyer (Louis-Dreyfus) shares the news with his beloved bagman. Gary (Tony Hale), who is so excited that his lifelong dream of becoming president is about to come true that, in turn, makes her nose bleed. (His nose bleeds when he's excited.)

Watching Louis-Dreyfus and Hale recreate themselves the scene is fascinating and overwhelmingaired in 2015, it would definitely be worth every dollar for viewers still wondering why the 17-time Emmy-winning series had to end in 2019.

When asked if Veep could ever return in current times during the Q&A session, Ianucci echoed what the core team has been expressing since 2020: reality has surpassed spectacle.

“It depends on who wins,” said the show's creator, who has gone through showrunning Veep on David Mandel for the fifth season. “Veep It's kind of based on everyone being afraid that they've done something wrong and that people might find out. And it only works if you're really worried about the rules being broken. If there was an episode of Veep shot on Trump, when he says: “They're eating dogs!” They're eating dogs! [during the ABC News presidential debate with Harris]the scenes of all the people, of the staff, would be theirs [shrugging] and saying “yeah, whatever.” They wouldn't be bothered.

He concluded: “It's all out there. There are no rules. So it will work: there will be political satire [again]. There will be something like that Veepif there is a responsible politician or politicians who know what the rules are and follow them.”

For a final kicker during the event, the Veep the writers continued their tradition of arming the cast with a new list of Jonah Insults, which are the famous foul-mouthed barbs that target Simons' character. Iannucci and Oswalt contributed some of their own insults to close out the evening, while some of the highlights reeled off by the cast (many of them, left in hysterics) included: “TwatGPT”, “Satellite lecker”, “circumcised face” and “stock photo for the refusal of the sperm bank.

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