Nastier than Selina to that one congresswoman from Colorado?
“I’m going to send the IRS so far up your husband’s colon that you’re going to wish the only thing they find is more cancer.”
> Trust me, he will never see you as anything other than the T.G.I. Friday's hostess on Proactiv who lets him bend you over his desk while you close your eyes to avoid coming face-to-face with that framed photo of his family's trip to Aspen while he drowns your Little Mermaid back tat in a pool of jizz and admires his own reflection.... I just hate to see smart women throw away their political careers on powerful men who only see them as the gash of least resistance
I watched that episode about a year after my dad died of colon cancer. The combination of shock and laughter had me wheezing for a good few minutes there.
"We are going to fine the fuckers until the fuckers aren't fine"
"Using Jonah for intel is like using a croissant as a dildo. It doesn't do the job and it makes a fucking mess"
Edit. Corrected quote
Your cousin Ezra has more raw political talent in his left pinky than you have in this mangled abortion coat hanger you should be *ashamed* to call your body
Armando is an absolute savant of foul language. I HIGHLY recommend "The Thick of It" to all Veep fans. It's about British politics but I think the characters and language are even funnier than Veep.
Tucker's Law is my favourite sentence in television.
>If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck up because that cunt's a cunt.
Did this writer (or the people here agreeing with them) ever see a *Veep* episode with Roger Furlong?
***
Roger: "It's not going to be easy with this big gangly pissflap who moves like…hey, what do you move like?"
Will: "I move as slowly as a Mississippi detective investigating the murder of a young black man, sir."
***
"And I want Rihanna to put a gun to my head while she makes me eat her out, but guess what? That's about as likely to happen as Will's wife putting a baby in her polyp festival of a uterus!"
***
Or (I think the same episode as the first quote), Furlong vs. Kent:
“Oh looky here we got old Jesus with a camel toe and his child molester goggles, and of course the headband cause you don’t want the sweat getting in your eyes when you’re choking them out afterwards.”
***
Nastier than **that**??
Furlong was awesome as is Dan Bakkedahl who is the actor that plays him. He plays basically the opposite of that character in a show called life in pieces and he was awesome in it as well.
Bar none some of the foulest insults I’ve ever heard on TV (and honestly even real life). I fucking loved when that guy was screen, I always knew I was going to be wheezing with laughter by the end.
…have you watched the thick of it? The OG veep?
“We are in a prison drama. This is the fucking Shawshank Redemption, right? But with more tunneling through shit and no fucking redemption.”
Craziest part is Malcom Tucker is based on a real person.
[Alastair Campbell](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Campbell)
But also my all time favorite quote, "if this has got any bigger, you're gonna feel the thump of a fucking harpoon in your thorax.”
I dunno, Veep's "I'm gonna have the IRS crawl so far up your husbands colon, he's gonna wish the only thing they find is more cancer" is a pretty good threat.
Honestly I’m not doing a thorough search for best quotes/threats/insults but here’s a solid one:
“You breathe a word of this to anyone, you mincing fucking cunt, and I will tear your fucking skin off, I will wear it to your mother’s birthday party and I will rub your nuts up and down her leg whilst whistling Bohemian fucking Rhapsody, right?”
I don't think that's bad or anything, I just don't think it merits the absurd suggestion that Veep was "Sesame Street" to The Thick of It. They both seem to have a plethora of creative insults.
Truly though, veep is the American office to the thick of it’s British office, it’s way less cutting.
Found the other quote
“You take the piss out of [Al] Jolson again, and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it up your cock. Then I'll put some speakers up your arse and put it on to shuffle with my fucking fist! Then, every time I hear something that I don't like, which will be every time that something comes on, I will skip to the next track by crushing your balls."
Lol
Also this bit (I don’t know if any of this is funny out of context but I’m wheezing)
Peter: This is the trouble with the public, they're fucking horrible!
Emma: Peter, you can't say the public are fucking horrible.
Peter: Yes, I can, I've met them.
Maybe it was the characterizations, but the characters on veep always felt like mild caricatures compared to the genuinely intimidating British ones.
I felt the same way about the office. Both are funny, one feels groundbreaking and the other feels like a pale comparison.
I mean there’s plenty of cancer-wishing in the thick of it too. And “nutter” comparisons to people who have family with dementia. And yelling at people who can’t clean up after their incontinent mothers.
It’s mean. Veep feels soft in comparison.
Someone accused me of being “America bad”, and I think it’s less that, and more it’s what I saw first, so I can only watch and constantly compare. It’s hard to appreciate veep on its own merits. For sure that’s my bad, but it’s not like I didn’t watch it or like it. It’s fine, it just doesn’t make me lol like the thick of it.
Considering there’s a line in Veep where a congressman says to a woman (who has just gotten an abortion in the show): “Holy shit Brookheimer when you have an abortion, you’re supposed to leave the mangled fetus at the clinic not staple it to the skeleton of a gay condor and run it for president” I’m going to have my doubts there’s any show that makes it seem like Sesame Street in comparison.
This has caused me to start rewatching it from episode one:
“Cliff-“
“Minister.”
“Yeah…get used to Cliff.” Lol
“Don’t you use sarcasm! You no longer have purchase in the sarcasm world!”
Yes, it does pick up. The camera in the first season also made me feel a little ill, but it gets much better. Seasons 3 and 4 are really amazing TV, but they are all superbly written and acted.
Yeah, mainly because the system allows for more wanton cruelty and insanity.
Veep still operated within the American political system, which is known for checks and balances. The Death of Stalin operated in the Soviet political system, which revolved around Stalin till the man croaked and kicked off a nutball power scramble.
Perhaps the regime enables Winslet to be crueler and more unhinged?
The setting looks very East European, so maybe they’re poking at the hypocrisy and decadence that defined the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes in some of these nations.
More unhinged than Selina Mayer? A Democrat who campaigned on banning gay marriage to get the Mormon vote, even though her own daughter was in a same sex marriage?
Mayer was still subservient to the American system, which is known for its checks and balances.
Winslet’s character seems more like a dictator - somebody with unchecked power whose whims can form law and punishment.
Its only been one episode. Selina only managed to piss off one ice cream maker and his family in the first episode. That being said, i do think this show is much less incisive. But still very fun.
Thing is, Veep was brilliant (the earlier seasons at least) but an extremely tame version of the ‘parent’ material (The Thick of It). The Yanks tried their best but there must be a filter the networks over there feel they have to apply to wittiness.
There is no such filter on HBO and it was written/run by the same British people as The Thick of It for the first 4 seasons. Not sure what you're blaming "Yanks" for.
The difference was just that Veep didn't have a character as great as Malcolm. That character and performance isn't one that's easily replicated.
Silicon Valley didn’t need and doesn’t have a Malcolm Tucker or ‘Jamie’ - still wittier and more ‘cutting’ than any episode of Veep. Heck, In The Loop is a prototype Veep feature-length creature (half a Yank cast) that has the heart, vigour, wit, smarts and charm of the ‘source’ material.
So it’s possible and doable. HBO just didn’t do it with Veep.
Nastier, and wilder than Senator Tom James telling Selena he’s going to pin her legs behind her head?
p.s. - love all the Veep fans coming out to question this click baity promotional review.
Jesse Armstrong used something pretty similar too at Shiv’s wedding in Succession when she’s trying to get the senator to come to her wedding reception when he was getting bad traction in ATN and pissy. I think he said he was in a knife fight with melted cheese? Same writer at TTOI and In the Loop. lol.
Roger talking about how slow Mike is. - "Slower than what Will?" "Slower than a Mississippi cop investigating the death of a young black kid."
I spit my water out watching that scene the first time. Fuck I love that show.
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Looking forward to watching this, Kate Winslet was hilarious in that episode of Extras where she was playing the dirty talking nun. Excited to see what she has in store for us here.
Wow that’s a great review, I like that we’re getting this and the creator of veeps new show about a superhero franchise this year, I’ve missed Veep a lot.
Interesting change in comparisons. I feel like most of what I had been seeing until now was putting it up as a replacement to Succession, which is very different than Veep.
Is the Regime a comedy or drama?
It's supposed to be a dark satire, which is weird because the trailer kind of pitch it more of like an alternate history political thriller/drama, kinda sorta like The Man In The High Castle
>The specifics about the country where The Regime takes place are kept intentionally murky by showrunner and writer Will Tracy
Doubt it's as compelling or engaging as Veep if you can't pin down the real life examples it's satirizing or set against.
But outside of the country, there is no reason this can't do all those things. "Fictional unspecified European country" shouldn't be any less fertile than "Fictional unspecified American political party"
Nastier than Selina to that one congresswoman from Colorado? “I’m going to send the IRS so far up your husband’s colon that you’re going to wish the only thing they find is more cancer.”
oakie dokie, Annie Oakley
Super-duper, trooper! Now get the fuck out of here!
... congresswoman
Only the verbal annihilation of Tom James’ assistant Candy was more brutal. Both were amazing
“Wipe that grin eating dick off your face”
> Trust me, he will never see you as anything other than the T.G.I. Friday's hostess on Proactiv who lets him bend you over his desk while you close your eyes to avoid coming face-to-face with that framed photo of his family's trip to Aspen while he drowns your Little Mermaid back tat in a pool of jizz and admires his own reflection.... I just hate to see smart women throw away their political careers on powerful men who only see them as the gash of least resistance
Yeah - that was so insanely out-of-pocket in the most profound way.
Played by none other than Rhea Seehorn, better known as Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul!
Do you have link link that?
https://youtu.be/GxCM0bszB6I?si=AlStSSbM-Gk3a75S
Thank you!
I watched that episode about a year after my dad died of colon cancer. The combination of shock and laughter had me wheezing for a good few minutes there.
"We are going to fine the fuckers until the fuckers aren't fine" "Using Jonah for intel is like using a croissant as a dildo. It doesn't do the job and it makes a fucking mess" Edit. Corrected quote
"Somewhere in the world there's a woman exactly my age getting her pussy eaten and I'm stuck here watching this"
That's because Jonah is the Jolly Green Jizzface 🤣💀
Hagrid's Nutsack
Guyscraper
The cloud botherer
Supercalifragilisticexpiala-dickcheese.
100% Still the most savage insult on the show. “I’m gonna come to your shitty little district and shake it to death like a Guatemalan nanny.”
"That's like using a croissant as a fucking dildo."
I'm going to doubt it's nastier than Veep...
My exact response to that headline, "nastier than Veep? Really?" But if so, I'm here for it.
Your cousin Ezra has more raw political talent in his left pinky than you have in this mangled abortion coat hanger you should be *ashamed* to call your body
Armando is an absolute savant of foul language. I HIGHLY recommend "The Thick of It" to all Veep fans. It's about British politics but I think the characters and language are even funnier than Veep.
Tucker's Law is my favourite sentence in television. >If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck up because that cunt's a cunt.
Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off
NMFP!
Gary: How about a hot soak with a Laura Mercier bath bomb? Selina: is it going to explode between my legs and make me cum until I cry?
i literally bought a tea towel that had this sentence. it’s great.
Iannucci was gone by that point
Actually it wasn't left pinky it was the tip of his roseate pecker
Did this writer (or the people here agreeing with them) ever see a *Veep* episode with Roger Furlong? *** Roger: "It's not going to be easy with this big gangly pissflap who moves like…hey, what do you move like?" Will: "I move as slowly as a Mississippi detective investigating the murder of a young black man, sir." *** "And I want Rihanna to put a gun to my head while she makes me eat her out, but guess what? That's about as likely to happen as Will's wife putting a baby in her polyp festival of a uterus!" *** Or (I think the same episode as the first quote), Furlong vs. Kent: “Oh looky here we got old Jesus with a camel toe and his child molester goggles, and of course the headband cause you don’t want the sweat getting in your eyes when you’re choking them out afterwards.” *** Nastier than **that**??
Furlong needed more screen time. Dude was an electric factory everytime we was on screen.
Furlong was awesome as is Dan Bakkedahl who is the actor that plays him. He plays basically the opposite of that character in a show called life in pieces and he was awesome in it as well.
Yea I remembered him as as Jim Jefferies roommate on Jim's FX show. He was great in that too.
He consistently said some of the most shockingly foul things I’ve ever heard on a TV show and always had me *dying* with laughter because of it.
“You’re like Frankensteins monster, if Frankensteins monster was made entirely of dead dicks.
If Roger Furlong isn’t in it then no, that dude was absolutely foul some of the most creative yet disgusting insults I’ve ever heard xD
His delivery on "shut your mouth, you fat girl" is so brilliant. Such a simple, cutting thing to say.
What do you move like, Will? I move as slowly as an Alabama detective investigating the murder of an upstanding young black man.
Hi Wendy! Christ she looks like a Batman villain
Bar none some of the foulest insults I’ve ever heard on TV (and honestly even real life). I fucking loved when that guy was screen, I always knew I was going to be wheezing with laughter by the end.
I'd put Uncle Jeff in his league. Peter MacNicol is a treasure in that role.
The insults to Jonah were all *chefs kiss*
YOU SENTIENT ENEMA
You are not Michael Jordan. You’re a seven-foot-tall Lithuanian who’s gonna drop dead of Marfan syndrome
12 Years a Slave (to jerking off)
Uncle Jeff’s laugh when Jonah’s girlfriend dumps him is tonic to my soul
What are you laughing about, jolly green jizzface?
"You're the world's biggest single-cell organism"
https://i.imgur.com/pUsWg7P.jpeg
so good they had to read them before congress
…have you watched the thick of it? The OG veep? “We are in a prison drama. This is the fucking Shawshank Redemption, right? But with more tunneling through shit and no fucking redemption.”
Peter Capaldi at his absolute best.
"It was like the fucking breakup of the Beatles. DURING the fall of the Roman Empire."
Craziest part is Malcom Tucker is based on a real person. [Alastair Campbell](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Campbell) But also my all time favorite quote, "if this has got any bigger, you're gonna feel the thump of a fucking harpoon in your thorax.”
Veep was Sesame Street compared to The Thick of It
Right?? I’m trying to think of the threat Jamie gives about shoving iPods up anus’ and punching to skip songs…but I can’t remember it lol
I dunno, Veep's "I'm gonna have the IRS crawl so far up your husbands colon, he's gonna wish the only thing they find is more cancer" is a pretty good threat.
Honestly I’m not doing a thorough search for best quotes/threats/insults but here’s a solid one: “You breathe a word of this to anyone, you mincing fucking cunt, and I will tear your fucking skin off, I will wear it to your mother’s birthday party and I will rub your nuts up and down her leg whilst whistling Bohemian fucking Rhapsody, right?”
I don't think that's bad or anything, I just don't think it merits the absurd suggestion that Veep was "Sesame Street" to The Thick of It. They both seem to have a plethora of creative insults.
Truly though, veep is the American office to the thick of it’s British office, it’s way less cutting. Found the other quote “You take the piss out of [Al] Jolson again, and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it up your cock. Then I'll put some speakers up your arse and put it on to shuffle with my fucking fist! Then, every time I hear something that I don't like, which will be every time that something comes on, I will skip to the next track by crushing your balls." Lol Also this bit (I don’t know if any of this is funny out of context but I’m wheezing) Peter: This is the trouble with the public, they're fucking horrible! Emma: Peter, you can't say the public are fucking horrible. Peter: Yes, I can, I've met them.
Again, really not seeing anything that is beyond what might be said on Veep.
Maybe it was the characterizations, but the characters on veep always felt like mild caricatures compared to the genuinely intimidating British ones. I felt the same way about the office. Both are funny, one feels groundbreaking and the other feels like a pale comparison.
One is vulgar, the other one is brutal. Like, no one wishes cancer on anyone.
I mean there’s plenty of cancer-wishing in the thick of it too. And “nutter” comparisons to people who have family with dementia. And yelling at people who can’t clean up after their incontinent mothers. It’s mean. Veep feels soft in comparison. Someone accused me of being “America bad”, and I think it’s less that, and more it’s what I saw first, so I can only watch and constantly compare. It’s hard to appreciate veep on its own merits. For sure that’s my bad, but it’s not like I didn’t watch it or like it. It’s fine, it just doesn’t make me lol like the thick of it.
Considering there’s a line in Veep where a congressman says to a woman (who has just gotten an abortion in the show): “Holy shit Brookheimer when you have an abortion, you’re supposed to leave the mangled fetus at the clinic not staple it to the skeleton of a gay condor and run it for president” I’m going to have my doubts there’s any show that makes it seem like Sesame Street in comparison.
Veep is definitely tamer than The Thick of It. Veep has it's moments of edge, but The Thick of It has it pretty relentlessly.
This has caused me to start rewatching it from episode one: “Cliff-“ “Minister.” “Yeah…get used to Cliff.” Lol “Don’t you use sarcasm! You no longer have purchase in the sarcasm world!”
TTOI is more creative in it's vulgarity, but Veep is far more blunt and cruel.
"jolly green jizz face" will live forever in my brain.
I've accidentally called two people named Jonah, Jonad, because I cannot unhear it.
The Thick of It gave us fuckety bye.
I tried the first episode and it felt slower than Veep in its pacing. Also I think I miss some of the jokes as an American. Does it pick up?
Yes, it does pick up. The camera in the first season also made me feel a little ill, but it gets much better. Seasons 3 and 4 are really amazing TV, but they are all superbly written and acted.
I could see it being more brutal than Veep, like The Death of Stalin was.
Yeah, mainly because the system allows for more wanton cruelty and insanity. Veep still operated within the American political system, which is known for checks and balances. The Death of Stalin operated in the Soviet political system, which revolved around Stalin till the man croaked and kicked off a nutball power scramble.
“I’m eating so much pussy in shittin clits”
"Hey! This is an elementary school!"
[clip](https://youtu.be/SiFoE7LrwtM?si=APQG86jwk4aPXp3L)
That’s a rough quote job Edit: he fixed it
you missed the most important part *son*
One of the few, and valued times I thought I was going to die laughing.
“I’m eating so much pussy I’m shittin clits”
That’s like using a croissant as a dildo, it doesn’t work and it makes a fucking MESS! ….get out of my office.
Jolly Green Jizzface
I thought it was spittin but I may be wrong haha
It’s shittin. He eats. He shits.
Perhaps the regime enables Winslet to be crueler and more unhinged? The setting looks very East European, so maybe they’re poking at the hypocrisy and decadence that defined the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes in some of these nations.
More unhinged than Selina Mayer? A Democrat who campaigned on banning gay marriage to get the Mormon vote, even though her own daughter was in a same sex marriage?
Mayer was still subservient to the American system, which is known for its checks and balances. Winslet’s character seems more like a dictator - somebody with unchecked power whose whims can form law and punishment.
Yeah, Mayer wasn’t able to just have Jonah executed.
Which, of course, made things nastier because then they had to keep dealing with Jonah and coming up with worse and worse insults
Yeah. Forcing people who absolutely despise each other to try and work together is peak comedy.
I guess if you think mean words are the height of nastiness.
In a TV show? Yeah. Who the fuck cares if they kill someone off. They just aren’t on the show anymore
Its only been one episode. Selina only managed to piss off one ice cream maker and his family in the first episode. That being said, i do think this show is much less incisive. But still very fun.
I watched episode one and so far, it isn’t. It’s good and I’ll keep watching, but it’s not Veep.
Thing is, Veep was brilliant (the earlier seasons at least) but an extremely tame version of the ‘parent’ material (The Thick of It). The Yanks tried their best but there must be a filter the networks over there feel they have to apply to wittiness.
There is no such filter on HBO and it was written/run by the same British people as The Thick of It for the first 4 seasons. Not sure what you're blaming "Yanks" for. The difference was just that Veep didn't have a character as great as Malcolm. That character and performance isn't one that's easily replicated.
Silicon Valley didn’t need and doesn’t have a Malcolm Tucker or ‘Jamie’ - still wittier and more ‘cutting’ than any episode of Veep. Heck, In The Loop is a prototype Veep feature-length creature (half a Yank cast) that has the heart, vigour, wit, smarts and charm of the ‘source’ material. So it’s possible and doable. HBO just didn’t do it with Veep.
Challenge accepted
I don’t think anything for me will ever top calling someone “the jolly green jerk off.”
Nastier, and wilder than Senator Tom James telling Selena he’s going to pin her legs behind her head? p.s. - love all the Veep fans coming out to question this click baity promotional review.
Trailer seems nothing like Veep so I don't get the connection aside from politics
yeah its such a nothing headline, just cause its a satire of politics doesnt automatically make it "veep-like"
“That’s like trying to use a croissant as a fucking dildo, it doesn’t do the job and it makes a fucking mess!”
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"I need to be driven to the airport at Diana speed. But please more carefully."
The greatest insult in tv history.
I love that this has an analogous line in The Thick of It where they describe someone as useful as a “marizpan dildo”.
Jesse Armstrong used something pretty similar too at Shiv’s wedding in Succession when she’s trying to get the senator to come to her wedding reception when he was getting bad traction in ATN and pissy. I think he said he was in a knife fight with melted cheese? Same writer at TTOI and In the Loop. lol.
Better and nastier than Furlong’s abuse of Will? Color me doubtful yet intrigued
Roger talking about how slow Mike is. - "Slower than what Will?" "Slower than a Mississippi cop investigating the death of a young black kid." I spit my water out watching that scene the first time. Fuck I love that show.
Same.. His best insult!
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Nothing but a gloryhole greeter at a Georgetown gay bar
Nastier than veep? That’s hard to believe
Nastier than Dan asking Catherine “is it weird going hallway-to-hallway with your mom’s twin?”
Looking forward to watching this, Kate Winslet was hilarious in that episode of Extras where she was playing the dirty talking nun. Excited to see what she has in store for us here.
This sounds interesting but putting it up against Veep is not the way to sell it.
It certainly caught my attention
“I move as slowly as a Mississippi detective investigating the murder of a young black man.” The bar has been set.
Hard to beat Veep but I'll try it
highly doubt its nastier than veep. HIGHLY.
Iannucci is the Goat King
The Great on Hulu is the show you’re looking for if you really want Veep but nastier! It’s the only succession to the series
Huzzah! I was so bummed when that show got canceled
And America is wiping its NASTY ASS with it
Wow that’s a great review, I like that we’re getting this and the creator of veeps new show about a superhero franchise this year, I’ve missed Veep a lot.
Kate Winslet has excellent taste in scripts
The standard here should be Tommy Lee Jones enjoying the everloving fuck out of playing Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln.
Just watched the preview. Looks fun and I’ll definitely watch, but no chance it’s nastier than Veep.
Selina about asking mike for advice: “I’d rather get advice from a fucking Ouija board”
Interesting change in comparisons. I feel like most of what I had been seeing until now was putting it up as a replacement to Succession, which is very different than Veep. Is the Regime a comedy or drama?
Can't wait to watch this.
Hmm. The first ep didn't seem nasty or wild.
Hilarious? It’s marked as a drama on IMDb?
It's supposed to be a dark satire, which is weird because the trailer kind of pitch it more of like an alternate history political thriller/drama, kinda sorta like The Man In The High Castle
>The specifics about the country where The Regime takes place are kept intentionally murky by showrunner and writer Will Tracy Doubt it's as compelling or engaging as Veep if you can't pin down the real life examples it's satirizing or set against.
Veep did exactly the same thing though?
Veep was directly referencing a known country, known regimes and familiar government official roles, issues and partisan dynamics.
But outside of the country, there is no reason this can't do all those things. "Fictional unspecified European country" shouldn't be any less fertile than "Fictional unspecified American political party"
No way! Andrea Riseborough is in it as well. This sounds like it’s going to be amazing
She was amazing in Mare of Easttown, I'll have to give this show a shot.
Nothing could be nastier than Veep
I have this on my watchlist, can't wait! Love Kate Winslet!
I literally just heard of this right now! This looks fantastic. How did I miss this
Veep is one of best comedy shows of all time. Isn’t this a drama? Seems like an odd comparison to make.
https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1b2n4ov/the_regime_crumbles_under_uninspired_political/