Live from the Democratic National Convention, Louis-Dreyfus spoke on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and talked about the surge in momentum “Veep” has had since Harris announced her campaign and President Joe Biden withdrew from this year’s race. Colbert mentioned that the number of people watching “Veep” had climbed by 350%. Louis-Dreyfus responded, “I think that’s a great thing.” She nevertheless felt compelled to make it clear that Meyer and Harris do not have the same character attributes.
“Let me explain to you, on ‘Veep’ I played a narcissistic, megalomaniac sociopath, and that is not Kamala Harris,” she said, further commenting: “It might be another candidate in the race.” Colbert then inquired as to which “Veep” character most closely resembles JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running partner, in Louis-Dreyfus’ opinion. She referred to Timothy Simons’ portrayal of Meyer’s White House liaison, Jonah Ryan, who frequently gets into arguments with her staff. “I’m sure he’s made love to many couches,” Louis-Dreyfus jokes.
Colbert brought up that “Veep” handled a lot of the discriminatory treatment of women in politics despite being a sitcom. When asked which scene best exemplified this, Louis-Dreyfus mentioned a sequence with Meyer and Matt Walsh’s character Mike McLintock.
“He came to me with this speech, and the speech began ‘as a woman.’ And I looked at him and I said, ‘First of all, as a woman, I’m not going to start a speech with “as a woman,” because I can’t identify as a woman,’” Louis-Dreyfus recounted. “Men hate that and women who hate women hate that, which is most women.”