Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there.
This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.
These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.
Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!
I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.
I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon
I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.
Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.
Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.
The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday Night Live - and that's why it gets a lot of heat, too. Obviously it gets criticism fairly, too. But a lot of it is because Lorne [Michaels] lets the audience decide and doesn't force them to laugh.
I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.
I can never say a line someone else has given me, which is why script meetings on TV shows always go terribly for me.