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    <em>Veep</em>'s Showrunner on Clinton, Trump, and Insulting Jonah

    Before David Mandel accepted the HBO show’s third consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, he spoke with <em>The Atlantic</em> about writing political satire for a fractious world.
    by Megan Garber Sep 18, 2017 6 minutes
    Source: Phil McCarten / Invision for the Television Academy / AP

    This post contains light spoilers through Season 6 of Veep.

    “I’m out of a job,” David Mandel joked from the Emmy Awards stage on Sunday evening, as he accepted the statue for Best Comedy Series on behalf of Veep. “I guess we all are,” the HBO comedy’s showrunner added, motioning to the cast and crew assembled behind him—“so if anyone hears anything, I’m looking for movie work, but I’ll do television.”

    Mandel was overstating the case just a little: While , the political satire for which he serves as a writer as well as an executive producer, announced that its upcoming season, the show’s seventh, will be its last, he and his team are still very much employed: They’re currently planning that final season, set to air in 2018, and with it the fate of Selina Meyer, that perpetually powerful underdog, and the powerful underdogs in her orbit. Just before the Emmys, Megan Garber spoke with Mandel about how that work is going—about , and about what it’s like to make a show about the American presidency during

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