HBO’s “Veep” is about to take a bow, with the network announcing Wednesday that the heralded comedy will come to a close after its upcoming seventh season. Julia Louis-Dreyfus has starred as hapless politician Selina Meyer since the series debuted in April 2012.
“The decision to bring ‘Veep’ to a close at the end of next season is bittersweet,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys. “We love the show and everyone involved but respect the producers’ choice to bring Selina Meyer’s journey to its conclusion after an extraordinary run of critical and award-winning acclaim.”
“Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ comedic brilliance infused Selina with a dynamic presence and a vibrant wit which will ensure her a place in the history of television’s most iconic comedic characters,” Bloys continued. “We look forward to producing the seventh and final season.”
Louis-Dreyfus took to Twitter on Wednesday to weigh in on the sad news. “It’s true BUT don’t despair cuz we still have a whole season 7 to write and film,” she wrote.
The political comedy series was created by Armando Iannucci and is adapted from his British sitcom “The Thick of It.”
“Veep,” which will launch its final season next year, aired its Season 6 finale in June. The following month, it picked up 12 Emmy nominations, including outstanding comedy series, a category in which it has prevailed for the past two years.
The 15 Cruelest 'Veep' Insults, Ranked (Photos)
The Season 6 finale of "Veep" is almost here. If there's one thing we can't get enough of on this show, it's the insults hurled at rapid-fire. Here's a roundup of some of our favorites.
"What is wrong with you, you Paddington Bear-looking f---?" - Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky)
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13. Season 2 Episode 6 "Andrew"
"You're not even a man. You're like an early draft of a man, where they just sketched out a giant, mangled skeleton but they didn't have time to add details like pigment or self respect. You're Frankenstein's monster, if the monster was made entirely of dead dicks." - Ed Webster (Zach Woods)
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12. Season 1 Episode 5 "Nicknames"
"Grizzly Madam, She-Ra, Meyer the Liar, The Batcave, Pissface…The Wicked Witch of the West Wing, Veep Throat, Voldemeyer, Dickless Van Dyke, Tawdry Hepburn, Blunder Woman, Vaselina, Betty Poop…" - Mike McLintock (Matt Walsh) (reading internet insults)
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11. Season 5 Episode 2 "Nev-AD-a"
"You are not Michael Jordan. You're a seven-foot-tall Lithuanian who's gonna drop dead of Marfan syndrome." - Amy Brookheimer
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10. Season 6 Episode 6 "Qatar"
"You look like the world's least-f---ed geisha." - Selina Meyer
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9. Season 5 Episode 1 "Morning After"
"Right now you're about as toxic as a urinal cake in Chernobyl." -Amy Brookheimer
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8. Season 6 Episode 6 "Qatar"
"You micro-dick weasel! You couldn't even fill my p---hole." - Jane McCabe (Margaret Colin)
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7. Season 6 Episode 9 "A Woman First"
"Shut the f--- up, you epileptic Picasso painting!" - Uncle Jeff (Peter MacNicol)
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6. Season 4 Episode 9 "Testimony"
"The Jonad Files... J-rock, Jack and the Giant Jack-off, Gaylean, Tinkerballs, Wadzilla, One Erection..." - list of insults on a shared drive
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5. Season 4 Episode 5 "Convention"
"You have two settings: no decision, and bad decision. I wouldn't let you run a bath without having the Coast Guard and the Fire Department standing by...You are the worst thing to happen to America since food in buckets, and maybe slavery." - Amy Brookheimer
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4. Season 1 Episode 5 "Nicknames"
"That's like trying to use a f---ing croissant as a dildo. It doesn't do the job and it makes a f---ing mess." - Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
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3. Season 4 Episode 8 "B/ill"
"Everyone shut your f---ing holes.The president is not sick, you guys are. You’re parasites. You’re like an infestation of mediocrity. I don’t care if you’re a 1950s radio broadcaster, you’re Fozzy Bear that’s been ripped up and used to smuggle heroin, a Nazi doctor. I don’t even know what the f--- you are."
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2. Season 5 Episode 7 "Congressional Ball"
"No, I am the one who got us this far, you sentient enema." - Uncle Jeff
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1. Season 2 Episode 4 "The Vic Allen Dinner"
"What are you laughing about, Jolly Green Jizz-Face?" -Selina Meyer
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”You are the worst thing to happen to America since food in buckets, and maybe slavery“
The Season 6 finale of "Veep" is almost here. If there's one thing we can't get enough of on this show, it's the insults hurled at rapid-fire. Here's a roundup of some of our favorites.
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