Selina and her staff try to cope when the administration goes into full crisis mode.
Rapid-fire wordplay and character escalation sustain 71 jokes across season finale.
Directed by Tim Kirkby · Written by Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“D.C.” ranks #47 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 92.1 — Elite. The episode packs 109 scored jokes at 2.7 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.4 on impact, with Selina landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Science Kid · Selina: When I grow up, I want to be vice president just like you. / Oh, no, you don't. You want to be president.
Selina: Was your mom plagiarizing the Bible when she said, 'Oh, God, oh, God'?
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dana: You look like you did when I asked you to talk dirty. You were just like, 'I'm in you right now.'
Dana Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dan: Oh, okay. Do you see this? See this right here? You know what this is? This is me playing 'Fuck You' on the world's biggest cello.
Dan Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Selina · Dan · Selina · Dan · Amy · Selina: What? What? What? What? / Yep. / You're kidding. / No. / And so it begins. / Yeah, with a kick to the tits.
All Jokes — 109 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Selina: Selina: Oh, God. I hate impeachments. They're so '90s.
Selina Observational Deadpan/Understatement Jonah: Jonah: No, I just have a 'don't ask don't tell' policy about the things that I know. Or that I don't know.
Jonah Character Comedy Absurdist Selina: Jonah, don't talk, don't stay. You need to fuck off and go back to Westworld.
Selina Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Selina: Three fucks, you're out.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Gary · Selina: Ma'am, you have my deepest, deepest sympathies. / Okay, well, I'm not dead.
Dan: Dan immediately starts making calls to other employers the moment Selina announces she's leaving — while still in the room.
Dan Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Selina: Well, your devotion to this job... it's just inspiring, Dan.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Amy · Dan: He's not getting a call. He's making a call, right? / Hi. Yes. Can you please tell Governor Chung that Dan Egan is ready for the Chung chat?
Amy Dan Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Amy · Dan · Amy: No, it means I have absolutely nothing to do. / I meant for her. / Still, this might mean that we could spend more time together. / Let's take it one day at a time. Sweet Jesus.
Dan: Yes, Congressman Kosynski. Or should I say mentor Kosynski? The father figure my own dad was too weird and distant to be.
Dan Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Dan: Like that night that you stayed over and we read the papers the next morning? That was really nice. And I thought, yeah, that is something that I could do for the rest of my life.
Dan Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kosynski: You know, you're gonna get bedsores.
Kosynski Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline Will: I move as slowly as a Mississippi detective investigating the murder of a young black man.
Will Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Gary · Selina: Hey, ma'am, you know you're gonna break the president's heart with this news. / Wish I could break his spine. But I can't, 'cause it's made of Jell-O.
Ben · Selina: Are you finishing my sentence or are you telling me that again? / Both.
Ben Selina Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Congressman: I really don't have any need for you, Mike. You're kind of obsolete. You're like a Viking stuck in time.
Congressman · Mike: Maybe you can hook me up with Charlize Theron. / Funny, but I'm being serious, sir. / No, I'm being serious, too. I'd like to fuck her.
Congressman: Why'd you leave anyway? You get stuck with your dick in the veep's decaf?
Congressman · Mike: Holy shit. She's leaving the ticket. / No, absolutely not. We had a fucking deal.
Congressman: Why don't you fucking kill yourself, Will?
Selina: Your news is probably more like a page six, Kardashian crap news.
Selina Character Comedy Observational Ben: He drank the poisoned Kool-Aid from my very big, blue mug.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Selina · Ben: Are you serious? / No, I'm Joan fucking Rivers. Of course I'm serious.
Selina Ben Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Ben: Because he couldn't stomach the look -- like that, just like that -- of unbridled joy.
Ben Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Selina · Ben: Ben, I am crying very quietly on the inside. / While in your mind you're doing pirouettes on his grave.
Ben: While in your mind you're doing pirouettes on his grave.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Observational Ben: Well, it's not the job that's depressing. Life is depressing.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Selina: Selina alone after receiving the news, suppressing a squeal, then whispering 'Yes! Fuck! Gosh!' in rapid succession
Selina Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Roger/Furlong · Sue: We'd like to see the vice president as a matter of some urgency. / No.
Furlong · Sue · Sue: Fuck this, I'm going in the side door. / You do and Secret Service might break your neck. / That would be a tragedy.
Roger · Selina: Yeah, I'm burning calories with the old anxiety diet. You know, the anxiet. / If you want to get some cardio exercise, you have to have a heart.
Selina · Roger: Where did you hear this rumor? / Oh, I heard it from the Gingerhead Man. The gash with the stash. McLintock.
Selina · Roger: I am absolutely running in two years. And then four years after that, reelection, baby. / What do you mean reelection?
Selina · Roger: It's like saying flammable or inflammable. It's the same thing. / I smell a fucking rat. / Oh, stop it. / I'll tell you what it is, too. It's this whole administration. And I'm gonna light a fire under the whole thing. Then we'll find out whether it's flammable or inflammable.
Roger: Come on, Wilbo Faggins, let's go.
Roger Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Selina · Jonah: You like to have sex and you like to travel? / Yes, ma'am. / Then you can fuck off.
Jonah: But I shall be right here if you need me. Like the mighty oak that stands for-- ma'am.
Jonah Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dan: Oh, yeah! That's awesome. I did not see that coming. Selina Meyer, she deals 'em fire. Bam! Boom! Let's go to the fucking moon!
Dan Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Mike: I was this close to living on my boat.
Mike Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Selina · Ed: Can you give me some time with my core team? Um, Br-- Br- / Ed. / Bre-- Ed. / Of course.
Ed · Jonah · Amy: I feel as though I may have missed something. If you need to fill me in on that-- / Hey, what happened in there? / They're celebrating because you weren't in there.
Dan · Selina · Dan: Uh, I've accepted a number of posts. / Did you say a number? / Currently four.
Selina · Dan: Wow. You're gonna cancel them, right? / Oh, clearly. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Gary: I'm going into business with Dana and we're doing D&G Cheese Overseas.
Gary Character Comedy Absurdist Selina: Wait a minute. You're choosing dead milk over me?
Selina Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Selina: Like I'm Marilyn Monroe, just JFK the fuck out of me.
Selina Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Selina · Amy: No, it's all about crazy money, Ame. He's got the crazy money and I'm crazy enough to go get it. / As long as it's strictly business.
Dana: Dana: Oh, there he is. Hey, quit being so hot. You're gonna melt all my cheese.
Dana Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Dana: You look like you did when I asked you to talk dirty. You were just like, 'I'm in you right now.'
Dana Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dana: The Pecorino Duo Grande sampler. Shaved and grated.
Dana Character Comedy Absurdist Customer · Dana · Dana: Sorry, not black truffle. I meant white truffle. / That's next to the black truffle, okay. / What the fuck is wrong with you, Brett? This is not a big place, is it? It's not a big place.
Bystander · Dana · Gary: Would you guys like some space? / Yeah! / No! Stay right where you are.
Selina: You know, listen, just ignore that earlier me. The 'Little House on the Prairie' bullshit.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Amy: I am right behind/beside you. You, Chief of Staff to the president, me, chief of sexiness and spooning.
Amy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dan: Accidental dick move. I had to write Selina's speech for the science fair so fast that I think I plagiarized a speech that I wrote for Chung.
Dan Character Comedy Escalation Chung on YouTube · Amy · Dan: It's not about what America means to me. It's what I mean to America. Because America would be nothing without Americans. / Jesus, you wrote this shit? / Yeah, it's like a noun-verb gumbo.
Dan: So it's the fictitious girl. I gave her the same girl. Although I did change it from Juanita to Anita.
Dan Character Comedy Escalation Amy: Oh, that's a brilliant plan. Why don't you change America to Shmamerica? Yeah, I'm calling Mike.
Amy Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Selina · Mike: Well, from up here, they look like ants. / ( Mike chuckles ) / That's a joke. / Because they are ants.
Selina Mike Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Selina · Amy: What? I didn't say anything to that crusty ass clown. / I might have mixed up a couple words, but...
Ben: So now our spineless, flip-floppy fuckbag is staying.
Ben Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Selina: I've got to get out of here before I set fire to one of these nerds.
Selina Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Selina: Don't fuck this up. This is a public relations nightmare waiting to happen.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Dan · Chung: DC's current go-to place for these off-the-record meets. / Good choice. Under the radar as we used to say in the military.
Dan: Yeah, I think other people say that, too.
Dan Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Chung: That's the worst kind of friendly fire. The unfriendly kind.
Chung Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Dan · Chung · Dan: After all, you didn't really meet anyone named Juanita who said that. / No, I did. As I recall, it went something like... ( Spanish accent ) 'Mr. Ching, I come to America to work. I send money home, but life here is so hard for me.' / I didn't know you did voices.
Amy: Jesus, the inside of his head must be like an Escher drawing.
Amy Observational Character Comedy Selina: Oh, good, more hurt and disappointment.
Selina Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Chung: You think you get to decide on whether or not I hire you? There are plenty of Dans out there, Dan. Look around.
Chung Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Dan: Hey, don't call me kid, okay? I mean, A: you're not Jimmy Cagney, all right? And B: we're practically the same fucking age.
Dan Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Chung: Then it must really hurt to know how much more I've achieved in life. Decorated veteran. President-in-waiting.
Chung Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dan: Oh, okay. Do you see this? See this right here? You know what this is? This is me playing 'Fuck You' on the world's biggest cello.
Dan Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Chung: Oh, I think someone just suicide bombed their own future.
Chung Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Dan: God, you know, if I had a dollar for every time you mentioned that goddamn war, I would buy a tank and I would blow your fat fucking head off.
Dan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Selina: You get fucked by everybody in DC -- your friends, your enemies, your colleagues, your fucking family. That's Washington, DC, for you. DC -- District of Cunts.
Selina Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jonah: This is a restricted area. We're like Area 51 except more restricted.
Jonah Character Comedy Absurdist Jonah: I don't know. Information-wise, I am becalmed.
Jonah Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Gary · Dana: Hey. Hey. / Gary who I'm gonna marry. Fiancée in the house. Ooh, ooh! / This is not a good time, baby.
Gary Dana Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Dana: He should get the basket. Right? We'll get him to tweet about it. It'll be great publicity. You know I'm right.
Dana Absurdist Character Comedy Andrew · Selina: You've got to mello yellow. / Don't tell me not to panic. I know how to freak out, okay? Everybody can just shut the shit up.
Selina: We got to make a statement. Because I think POTUS is coming here to kick me off the ticket. And I've got to make a statement saying I'm leaving the ticket before he drops me from it. I've got to jump before we get stabbed in the back.
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist Selina: I'm gonna run against Chung. Okay? I'm gonna take myself off the ticket. I'll run against Chung and I'll run against POTUS. It'll be like a political massacre.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation Amy · Selina · Gary · Selina: Quit freaking out. You need to get your head together. / What do you mean? The president's gonna be here any second. / Lookie, lookie, lookie, lookie. / This is for you. / What? / It's like a Pecorino peace offering.
Jonah: Make a hole, yo. POTUS coming through. Make a hole.
Jonah Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm T.J. · Jonah: T.J.: You're not the president. / No, but you're not Justin Bieber either, are you, sport?
T.J. Jonah Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Selina: Am I about to get whacked?
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Chung: What's going on here? Is it Bring a Disparate Person to Work Day?
Chung Observational Character Comedy Dan: Uh, Selina is about to get a Potal bullet through the head and you are all about to be unemployed and homeless. But, Amy, I don't want you to worry. You can crash at my place.
Dan Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Amy: Take a flare gun, put it in your mouth, and blow your head off.
Amy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Ed: Listen to yourselves. You people are monsters.
Ed Reaction Beat Character Comedy Sue · Ed: Sue: Ed, you really need to can it right now. / Do not comment on this office, okay? / Hey, Sue, don't talk to me that way, okay? You're the secretary to the vice president. That's like being Garfunkel's roadie, okay?
Sue Ed Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Chung · Ben · Ben: So this is Selina's team in action. That explains a lot to me. / Likewise. Yeah, well, they're actually better than my team. My team is just fucking horrible.
Jonah: Ma'am, of all the places that I have liaised, I have enjoyed liaising here the most.
Jonah Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ben: POTUS, he knew the gig was up because Doyle, Furlong, Chung all turned the party against him. I mean, it was just, you know, RIP-OTUS. Just complete sinking shit.
Ben Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dan: And the science fair speech was plagiarized from Chung. Just wanted you to know that up front.
Dan Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Selina · Dan · Selina · Dan · Amy · Selina: What? What? What? What? / Yep. / You're kidding. / No. / And so it begins. / Yeah, with a kick to the tits.
Selina · Gary: Who gives a flying fuck? / ( all laugh ) / Not yet. / Sorry. I'm sorry, but I couldn't help it.
Ed · Amy: I didn't arrive soon enough to be able to cut out the cancer. / Oh, no, I think you arrived with a man bag filled with tumors.
Ed Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ben: Because he relied on those two guys. One a burnt-out loser, the other a conniving robot.
Ben Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jonah · Selina · Jonah: Oh, hello, kids. / Oh, my God, have you been here this whole time? / M&Ms for the scientists.
Selina: I think that the president should only have her staff here. / Or his staff. You know, their staff. I mean, I've never seen -- like that one we just passed, I don't know who that person is. I've never seen that person in my life. No business being here.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Selina: Politics is about people, don't you think? Yeah. It is when you think about it. 'Cause without people, you can't have politics.
Selina Absurdist Character Comedy Selina · Reporter(implied): Selina did not plagiarize Danny Chung's speech. Mike's already told you that. / No, I am not plagiarizing Mike. I know it's boring, but, hey, I'm boring.
Ed · Selina · Ed: We're still together, right? / Ed, I haven't got time. / Time for us or do you mean time as a general concept?
Selina: Was your mom plagiarizing the Bible when she said, 'Oh, God, oh, God'?
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Selina: The president's chair is a couple inches higher than the rest of the chairs in the Oval Office. And I used to think, 'Oh, my God, that's so ridiculous.' But now I think it makes sense because I think it's a good psychological trick.
Selina Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Gary: Oh, she loved the cheese. Loved it.
Gary Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Science Kid · Selina: When I grow up, I want to be vice president just like you. / Oh, no, you don't. You want to be president.