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Projects coming out. what is it like to -- you said you were in it for a while and it wasnt working out and then it just seems to me hollywood has this intense like updrafts of, you know, like someone is floating around and they get caught in the updraft and youre doing all this stuff. how do you make sense of that? >> honestly, i dont know the answer. im still trying to figure it out. i dont know. >> like youre clearly very talented, right? youre good at what you did. and you were doing it for ...

>> but the problem is that both earnestness and complete and total cynicism, both imply a level of competence that is completely, completely and totally out of proportion to what is actually going on in real life on a day-by-day basis in d.c. politics. which is why i love hbos "veep." because the shows bumbling, pratfalling, preposterousness actually gets closer to the ad hoc nature of how politics is really done than anything ive ever seen. >> hold up. hold up. hey there. alicia, whoa. my websi...

Totally out of proportion to what is actually going on in real life on a day-by-day basis in d.c. politics. which is why i love hbos "veep." because the shows bumbling, pratfalling, preposterousness actually gets closer to the ad hoc nature of how politics is really done than anything ive ever seen. >> hold up. hold up. hey there. alicia, whoa. my website is ryantology.net. and im a storyteller. and i want to tell real stories about real people. unlike john steinbeck in that regard. you know, or...

Just did it. yeah. >> and do you -- is it as much fun to make "veep" as it looks like it is? because the show is so effervescently funny and enjoyable to watch. is it fun to do? >> it is. absolutely. our cast and the ensemble has been really strong. i think even since the pilot. we got along really well personally as soon as we showed up. and i just think that as an ensemble we clicked. and that just sort of makes everybody better. if you have an off day, you have six or seven other people that ...

Fun to make "veep" as it looks like it is? because the show is so effervescently funny and enjoibl to watch. is it fun to do? >> it is. absolutely. our cast and the ensemble has been really strong. i think even since the pilot. we got along really well personally as soon as we showed up. and i just think that as an ensemble we clicked. and that just sort of makes everybody better. if you have an off day, you have six or seven other people that can pretty much catch you if you do anything wrong, ...

What is it like to -- you said you were in it for a while and it wasnt working out and then it just seems to me hollywood has this intense like updrafts of, you know, like someone is floating around and they get caught in the updraft and youre doing all this stuff. how do you make sense of that? >> honestly, i dont know the answer. im still trying to figure it out. i dont know. >> like youre clearly very talented, right? youre good at what you did. and you were doing it for years and it wasnt wo...

Staff. im serious. like someone was smart enough to do some googling. someone was smart enough to say -- right. exactly. that person deserves a raise today. were going to be talking a little later about the internal dynamics of a d.c. office. karen finney, who spent some time in one of those. thanks so much. >> oh, yes. thanks. >> karen finney, you can catch her show "disrupt" weekends at 4:00 p.m. eastern. coming up, the guy everyone loves to hate on "veep." >> are you here to spy, john? >> im ...

Completely, completely and totally out of proportion to what is actually going on in real life on a day-by-day basis in d.c. politics. which is why i love hbos "veep." because the shows bumbling, pratfalling, preposterousness actually gets closer to the ad hoc nature of how politics is really done than anything ive ever seen. >> hold up. hold up. hey there. alicia, whoa. my website is ryantology.net. and im a storyteller. and i want to tell real stories about real people. unlike john steinbeck i...

Doofus cool bro. >> yeah, exactly. im perfect for it. >> perfect. timothy simons from "veep." really a pleasure. >> thank you. >> coming up, how rancher cliven bundys comments illuminate a broader truth about the political coalitions in the obama era. next.

States. it breaks against republicans in some states. and that is medicaid. whether your governor and elected representatives supported the expansion of medicaid expansion or not, that is another issue that may play really big in louisiana and arkansas and north carolina. >> and certainly those are the voters that people want out to the polls to vote for you. because as we learned on veep, its the old people who vote. they have nothing else to do. >> thats the problem with obamacare. >> they get...