The following article by Ben Terris was posted on the Washington Post website April 9, 2017:
On Nov. 8, as the nation picked its 45th president, Julia Louis-Dreyfus spent the night observing a fake election.
The scene, filmed for an upcoming episode of the political comedy “Veep,” unfolded in what was supposed to be a polling station in a post-Soviet republic. Actors dressed as villagers — wool caps, scarves, an unruly chicken tucked under an arm — ambled across the set to dip their fingers in ink, as Louis-Dreyfus, in character as ex-president Selina Meyer, kept watch. Continue reading “What happens to political satire when the real world goes mad? ‘Veep’ is about to find out.”