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    'Veep' actor Kevin Dunn on the final season of the comedy, and how he got his sister that 'SNL' audition

    by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune Apr 18, 2019 6 minutes

    CHICAGO - A few years ago I asked "Veep" showrunner David Mandel why he thought the cast of the long-running HBO comedy (now in its final season) was stacked so deeply with performers from Chicago. He told me it's because the show is "so much about reality - and there's so much reality at the basis of Chicago improv and Chicago theater."

    Matt Walsh, Sam Richardson, David Pasquesi and star Julia Louis-Dreyfus all made their bones performing in Chicago's comedy scenes. (Louis-Dreyfus was attending Northwestern University and performing in a sketch show at Piper's Alley when she was hired on "Saturday Night Live" in 1982.)

    But many in the "Veep" ensemble sidestepped improv altogether early on in their careers - Timothy Simons and Gary Cole, among them - performing in straight plays instead.

    Yet another Chicago theater veteran: Kevin Dunn, as the supremely jaded chief of staff Ben Cafferty and perhaps the unhappiest member of President Selina Meyer's bizarre inner

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