Catherine's 21st birthday party becomes a forum for Selina's budget negotiation with the majority leader, but Amy and Gary are more worried how Selina will handle seeing her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Mike discusses Selina's role in the Uzbek hostage crisis with the press.
Sexual dysfunction plot escalates faster than Selina's composure crumbles.
Directed by Chris Morris · Written by Tony Roche
WAR
128.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Andrew” ranks #40 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 92.8 — Elite. The episode packs 87 scored jokes at 2.4 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
Dan: Dan's Jonah takedown: 'Jonah, you're not even a man. You're like an early draft of a man where they just sketched out a giant mangled skeleton, but they didn't have time to add details like pigment or self-respect. You're Frankenstein's monster if his monster was made entirely of dead dicks.'
Dan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Gary · Selina: Gary: 'Oh my God, I'm sorry.' / Selina: 'That's what I call Dana.' / Gary: 'Did you ever call Dana ma'am?' / Gary: 'I did once and it was awful.'
Gary Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Selina · Gary: Selina: 'If I were drunk right now, would you kiss me?' / Gary: 'Yeah.' / Selina: 'No, Gary, I'm kidding.' / Gary: 'Right.'
Selina Gary Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch Callback Selina: Selina learning Andrew's PAC funded both sides: 'I just was fluffed and then I got fucked.' — and then: 'Do you know-- smile. Smile, you stupid asshole. Make it bigger.'
Selina Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Selina · Mary King: Mary: 'I cannot stand teenage girls.' / Selina: 'Were you ever one?' / Mary: 'Never.' / Selina: 'Me neither.'
All Jokes — 87 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Mike · Leon: Mike trying to spin the song as 'jesty' and the reporter repeating 'Jesty?' back at him with obvious skepticism
Mike · Leon: Mike responding to Leon's rapid-fire gotcha questions about the spy coverup by saying 'Is your blood sugar off? Have a pastry or some herring, okay?'
Mike Leon Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Leon · Mike: Leon's systematic dismantling: 'Either she knew the student was a spy and lied when she denied it, or she didn't know, but lied about knowing the details of the military rescue.' Mike's response: 'This isn't Meyer the Liar again.' Leon: 'Well, it is now.'
Leon Mike Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Selina · Mary King: Selina's negotiation small talk: 'All you ever want for these kids is to be happy and healthy. And stay out of Middle East politics. So two out of three ain't bad.'
Selina: After Catherine's Middle East comment, Selina says 'I'm amazed you can laugh about that.' Selina replies flatly: 'Yes, that's what I do. I'm laughing about it.'
Selina Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Dan: Dan describing waiting for the Mary King meeting outcome: 'It's like waiting for a biopsy result.'
Dan Deadpan/Understatement Observational Amy · Dan: Mary King pretended to faint to win negotiations against Brian Earl
Amy Dan Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dan · Amy: Dan's reaction to learning Amy's date is Ed Webster: 'You swore you were only gonna date outside DC.' / Amy: 'He's not in DC. He works in Boston.' / Dan: 'Well, my mom doesn't live in Rome, but she's still a fucking Catholic.'
Dan Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Dan · Amy · Gary: Dan: 'Are you getting worked up, Danny?' / Dan: 'Shut the fuck up, Gary.' / Amy: 'I'm so happy you're happy for me, Dan.' / Dan: 'Oh, what do you want, a fucking cake?'
Selina · Mary King: Selina calls Mary's bluff: 'You stalling for time?' then offers a Kleenex, and adds: 'I think it's over. Sneezes always come in threes. Have you ever noticed that?' Mary: 'Really? Is that so?' — and then Mary sneezes a fourth time.
Selina · Mary King: Selina notices Mary may be about to faint: 'You're gonna faint?' Mary: 'I'm not-- oh, very funny.'
Selina · Gary · Mary King: Gary's cats cause Mary's allergic reaction — 'Oh, Gary has cats.' — and then 'Gary, deflower the room.'
Selina · unidentified staffer: 'Gary, deflower the room.' / 'There's a sentence I bet you thought you'd never hear.'
Mary King · Selina: Mary insists they must finish the deal tonight; Selina notes she has her daughter's 21st birthday. Mary: 'Would you miss your son's Civil Union ceremony?' / 'I did.' / 'Oh. Well, then, you have to come to Catherine's.'
Selina: 'Stick a coat and tie on a fucking oxygen tank.'
Selina Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Mike · Selina: Selina: 'Some dumbass is resurrecting Meyer the Liar.' / Mike: 'Ugh, just because my last name rhymes with liar.'
Mike: Mike: 'How lucky am I that I'm not Selina Mapist or Selina Medophile?'
Mike Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun Callback Jonah: Jonah: 'I just saw Mary King. Looked like she's been thrown up by a whale.'
Jonah Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ben: 'If we don't get this done by midnight, we're all gonna turn into ugly sisters and get eaten by wolves or whatever the fuck happens at the end of that story.'
Ben Absurdist Character Comedy Jonah: Amy receives the news that Ed Webster is here. Jonah: 'I think he's nervous. His voice sounded clammy.'
Jonah Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Ben: Ben to Amy, completely casually: 'It's good that you'll have sex soon.'
Ben Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Amy: Press release version two: 'Mary King steals peace pipe, breaks it in half, shits all over it.'
Gary · Selina: Andrew gave Selina a black Porsche for Valentine's Day that he bought with Catherine's trust fund money. 'He just fluffs ya, and then he fucks ya.'
Gary Selina Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Gary: Gary explaining Selina's Andrew-effect to Amy/Dan: 'It's like a cat on a hot tin dog.'
Gary Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Selina: Selina: 'I'm gonna be the sexiest woman to ever exude fiscal prudence. And that's a very fucking tough look to pull off.'
Selina Character Comedy Observational Ed: Ed's party warning: 'Fair warning, I party pretty hard. You should see me dance. I can't be controlled. I do a lot of pelvic thrusts. Just very localized dancing. Very small orbits.'
Ed Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ed: Ed: 'I've been wrecking parties since I was 13. I was like the Hunter S. Thompson of bar mitzvahs.'
Ed Character Comedy Absurdist Selina · Ed: Selina meeting Ed: 'We met in... in Bumfuck, Idaho, I think it was.' / Ed: 'DC.' / Selina: 'Yes, yes. That's what I like to call DC as a joke.'
Dan: Dan to Ed after Selina fails to remember him: 'Hey buddy, don't worry that she didn't remember you, okay? It's only 'cause you're a nonentity.'
Dan Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Selina · Catherine: Selina to Catherine: 'Don't you think that you and your friends would call this whole thing an epic succeed?'
Andrew: Andrew asking 'you still running marathons? Right, surprised you still got any nipples left.'
Andrew Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Andrew: Andrew to Jenny at the party: 'Remember that one time when you said you were way into Twilight and I thought you meant the time of day? It really is the most dangerous time for traffic, though.'
Andrew Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina · Catherine: Catherine: 'Mom, you've invited the House Majority Leader to my birthday party?' / Selina: 'Yeah, sweetheart, it's the 100 billion cutoff. You've heard about that?' / 'Of course I've heard about that.' / 'Okay, so we are fixing the biggest problem facing the world right here, right now at your party. So that's kind of cool, don't you think?'
Selina · Rahim: Selina to Rahim: 'You drink alcohol?' / 'Yes, ma'am.' / 'Oh, you Iranians are full of surprises.'
Selina · aide: After Rahim says 'Salâmati' (cheers in Farsi), Selina and her aide: 'What did he just say?' / 'I don't know. Some gibberish. I can't understand him.'
Ben: Ben arrives with 'number crunchers to help you finish the deal. And one of them is a designated driver because I am going to get fucked up.'
Ben Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Gary: Someone flattering Selina about her appearance: 'You look so good, you're like a work of art. You make this stuff look like shit. Compared to you, that Monet is a piece of shit.'
Gary Character Comedy Escalation Amy · Selina · Gary: Amy trying to limit Selina's Andrew time: 'The ex? Three minutes.' / Selina: 'What, are you negotiating already? I'll give you four.' / Amy: 'I'll cut her off at three, okay?'
Andrew: Andrew about scuba diving: 'Magical to be down there. With the coral and the fish. Feeling up all the mermaids. They should cover up if they don't want it.'
Andrew Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Andrew · Selina: Andrew: 'What would your answer be?' / Selina: 'My answer would be Jesus fucking Christ.'
Gary · Selina: Gary: 'Well, technically, ma'am, he had the palm of your hand in his hand.' / Selina: 'Oh.' / Gary: 'You need to be really careful, sweetie.'
Gary · Selina: Gary calls Selina 'sweetie' by accident, then is horrified
Gary · Selina: Gary: 'Oh my God, I'm sorry.' / Selina: 'That's what I call Dana.' / Gary: 'Did you ever call Dana ma'am?' / Gary: 'I did once and it was awful.'
Gary Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Selina · Gary: Selina: 'If I were drunk right now, would you kiss me?' / Gary: 'Yeah.' / Selina: 'No, Gary, I'm kidding.' / Gary: 'Right.'
Selina Gary Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch Callback Ben: Ben's party arrival announcement: 'It's time to drop a party bomb up in here!' followed by 'Happy 21st birthday, Catherine!' — immediately followed by proposing to talk about targeted base closings
Ben Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Selina · Mary King: In the middle of intense negotiations: 'Something sex my dick trick?' / 'Did you say dick?' / 'Sex your dick trick.'
Andrew: Andrew's double entendre to Selina: 'You look great in an art gallery 'cause you kind of are a work of art. I mean, I know I'd like to nail you up against a wall.' / 'No, that was knowing. I was being knowing.'
Andrew Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Selina: Selina interrupting teenage girls' fight to say 'Hey gals, you need to keep it down, okay? There are other people in here trying to have a conversation.' — while she's negotiating federal fiscal policy
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Selina · Mary King: Mary: 'I cannot stand teenage girls.' / Selina: 'Were you ever one?' / Mary: 'Never.' / Selina: 'Me neither.'
Mike · Amy: Mike singing: 'Amy and Ed work for the VP, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.' / Amy: 'Fuck off, Mike.' / Mike: 'Sure.'
Jonah: Jonah: 'I wonder how much vodka we'd need to have to have a little Mrs. Robinson moment.' / 'That is extremely disrespectful.' / Jonah: 'That's like the highest compliment you can give somebody.'
Jonah Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jonah · Dan: Jonah revealing to Ed that Amy and Dan used to date: 'Amy and Dan used to date, FYI.' / Dan: 'Yeah, thanks for the backgrounding, Jonah.'
Jonah: Jonah's logic that calling the VP a 'Mrs. Robinson' is 'the highest compliment you can give somebody'
Jonah Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jonah · Dan · Ed: Jonah to Dan: 'Does that mean you're back on the market?' / Dan: 'I'm sorry, are you hitting on my date during my date?' / Jonah: 'Are you on meds?' / 'Yeah, antibiotics. Just keeping fresh. I'm not mentally ill if that's what you're implying.'
Selina: Selina's birthday speech that gradually collapses into proposing 'constructive talking time' and asking for 'chillaxing kind of music'
Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Amy: Amy on the Meyer the Liar story: 'Monsters. It's like first Princess Diana, now this.'
Amy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Ben · Mike: Ben: 'As people say, if it rhymes, it chimes.' / Mike: 'Who says that? No one says that.' / Ben: 'I'm pretty sure I heard someone say that.'
Ben Mike Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Selina: Selina: 'I'm swimming in it and I'm breathing it in through my snorkel.'
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ben: Ben: 'Oh, great. Here's Eeyore. Deal, boom. Party, boom. You are the boom boom veep.'
Ben Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Andrew: Andrew at the dinner, about free diving: 'Kind of like sitting next to my mother after Thanksgiving dinner.'
Andrew Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Catherine · Selina · Andrew: Catherine: 'Mom, you're doing your fake laugh again.' / Selina: 'What?' / 'Come on, this is nice.' / 'I can't tell if it's fake.' / 'You could never tell if it was fake.' / Andrew: 'Yes, I could.' / 'Mm-hmm. What are you, some sort of expert?' / 'In certain areas.'
Dan: Dan to Amy about Andrew/Selina flirting: 'This is not flirting. This is like as subtle as putting a nude photo on Facebook.'
Dan Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Amy · Dan: Amy to Dan: 'I heard whining and I assumed I needed to apologize. How long have you not been listening to me?'
Amy Dan Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Selina · Andrew: Andrew: 'I can't stand that alpha male arrogant thing.' / 'I really can't stand it, Andrew.' / '...And fuck you for thinking so.'
Andrew: Andrew: 'And I'm very much enjoying the plastered-on smile, pretending everything's okay because people are watching.'
Andrew Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort Jonah · Dan · Ed: Jonah to Ed: 'So, Ed. Eddie. Who do you know? Do you know Ray McCaskill? We both are really into '80s buddy comedies, which is ironically how we became buddies.' / 'Fuck buddies.' / Jonah: 'Why are you here? You really don't have anything to do, do you?'
Amy · Andrew: Amy and Andrew have a two-sentence exchange about love-hate: 'I understand that you guys have a love-hate relationship, but most people alternate emotions. They don't experience them at the same time.' / 'We've always had a volatile relationship.' / 'By that you mean bat shit crazy.'
Amy Andrew Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Andrew · Catherine · Selina: Andrew: 'Followed by long, hard... making up, right?' / Catherine: 'Okay, I feel like you're actually going to have sex on this table and that would truly ruin my birthday.' / Selina: 'Catherine, please. Nobody's having sex on the table.'
Selina · Andrew · Catherine: Selina: 'I mean, we are sexual beings, of course.' / 'Oh, my God.' / 'We had sex. We, you know-- I mean, great sex.' / 'Great sex.' / Catherine: 'Well, I'm going to have to text my therapist.'
Andrew · Selina · Catherine: Andrew: 'Great sex.' (echoing Selina's 'great sex') / Catherine: 'Well, I'm going to have to text my therapist.'
Jonah: Jonah to someone who claims to be a Quaker: 'Bullshit. No one's a fucking Quaker. You probably think that staying sober keeps you on top of your game. Well, guess what. I work hard and I play hard, bitch. That's my credo. I got that shit tattooed on my dick with room to spare.'
Jonah Character Comedy Escalation Jonah: Jonah: 'I work hard and I play hard, bitch. That's my credo. I got that shit tattooed on my dick with room to spare.'
Jonah Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Dan: Dan's Jonah takedown: 'Jonah, you're not even a man. You're like an early draft of a man where they just sketched out a giant mangled skeleton, but they didn't have time to add details like pigment or self-respect. You're Frankenstein's monster if his monster was made entirely of dead dicks.'
Dan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jonah · Dan: Jonah: 'I'm gonna go to the bathroom. Just try not to embarrass yourselves while I'm gone.' / 'We'll give it a shot.'
Jonah Dan Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Amy · Andrew: Amy to Andrew when he tries to stop the Amy/Selina conversation about the bad news: 'I'm sorry. Can I interrupt a second?' / 'Uh, no.'
Amy Andrew Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Selina: Selina learning Andrew's PAC funded both sides: 'I just was fluffed and then I got fucked.' — and then: 'Do you know-- smile. Smile, you stupid asshole. Make it bigger.'
Selina Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Selina: Selina to Andrew, while smiling for cameras: 'Do you know-- smile. Smile, you stupid asshole. Make it bigger. There you go. Do you have any idea how the press is all over me right now? You're a stupid fucking prick.'
Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Selina · Andrew: Andrew: 'You're a stupid fucking prick.' / 'Right? You say it.' / 'I'm not gonna say that.'
Jonah · Selina: Jonah explaining the bad news: 'I think it looks like you guys are going to stab each other with steak knives.' / Selina: 'We're having a fight and we are smiling and putting a face on and you can do that, too. There you go.'
Selina · Amy: Amy tells Selina that POTUS is going to stall on the deal. Selina says: 'Oh, to congratulate me 'cause I made the deal last night.' / 'America thanks you.' / 'You're welcome.'
Selina: Selina on POTUS betrayal: 'Fuck POTUS. Right? And fuck Kent. They're just a bunch of fuckers.' — and then realizing she may have been photographed saying this.
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Selina · Andrew: Selina: 'I was angry with you before, but I'm not angry with you now.' / Andrew: 'I understand that, honey.' / 'Don't call me honey for starters.'
Andrew · Selina · Catherine: Andrew tries to help Selina control the situation by saying 'I think that if you guys continue to smile, you're actually gonna get permanent lockjaw.' / Selina: 'She's so funny.' / Catherine: 'Sarcastic.'
Selina · Andrew · Catherine: The birthday cake blowout — Selina: 'Make a wish.' / Andrew blows out candles. / 'You can make your wish in the car.' — as everyone flees the venue
Selina · Andrew · Catherine: Andrew jumps out of the car mid-argument: 'What? You're getting out here?' / 'Yep.' / 'What are you talking about?' / 'I've got to go.' / 'Wait. Andrew, wait. Wait. We need to talk.' / Andrew: 'Bye, honey. Happy birthday.' / 'God damn it.'
Gary · Catherine: Final scene: Gary finds Catherine alone with her birthday cake. Extended awkward silence as he tries to figure out what to say. 'Pretty nice cake you got there.' / '...' / 'You gonna eat all of it?' / Catherine offers him some. Gary: 'Jesus fucking Christ. Here. Take that. Carrot cake's good.' / 'You want to try it?' / 'Nope. It's all yours. I can use my phone to cut it.'
Gary · Catherine: Final scene: Gary sits alone with Catherine and the uncut birthday cake. Small talk. 'You gonna eat all of it?' / 'Do you want a piece?' / 'I do.' / 'Here. Carrot cake's good.' / 'You want to try it?' / 'Nope.' / 'I can use my phone to cut it.'