Despite being told to limit public appearances, Selina continues her plans; Dan tries to play both sides of a rivalry.
Campaign chaos hits 100 jokes in 43 minutes—Veep's densest episode yet.
Directed by Tim Kirkby · Written by Will Smith, Sean Gray
WAR
114
Wins Above Replacement
“Running” ranks #9 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 85.2 — Elite. The episode packs 100 scored jokes at 2.5 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.0 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
Like Sophie's Choice choices, except more important because it's gonna be about me.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch One of Gaddafi's sons. They're polling better.
Ben Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch He couldn't tell the difference between real glass and air either.
Amy/Dan Callback Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Like catching your sister's eye at an orgy.
Dan Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch She's out of her fucking mind.
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy All Jokes — 100 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Actually, I'm not sorry. I'm not sure why I just said that.
Sue Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch I mean, I lied and everything, but it sounded true, at least.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I can run that thing in a suit of armor.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation I'll go kiss some hateful billionaire ass on my own.
Selina Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Give them all donor boners.
Selina Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun I was only, like, suicidal for a week. Huh?
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch He's got a cave full of bats in his skull.
Ben Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch One of Gaddafi's sons. They're polling better.
Ben Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Blow the opening day pitch out of your ass?
We are at DEFCON fuck.
Ben Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Sidney Purcell, talking to him, it's like being stuck in a sewer pipe filled with dead rats.
Gary Character Comedy Escalation This is a political prick tease today.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy And we're about to meet a bunch of pricks.
Gary Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun My campaign launchpad is going to be made of solid fucking gold.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation Ovaries in the Oval Office!
Amy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy The West Womb!
Gary Wordplay/Pun Escalation Gary's awkward explanation of what a womb is
Gary Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Oh, pathetic.
Mike Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch The Young Chungers.
Dan Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy It's like you think in hashtags.
Amy Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch The Granny Chungs.
Dan Escalation Wordplay/Pun You're young, you're hip, you're hop.
Dan Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Look, I have no idea who that is, so, no.
Sue Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch No, no, and no.
Sue Escalation Deadpan/Understatement I think it's in a cloud.
Dan Character Comedy Observational Chung will reenlist and hopefully get himself killed.
Sue Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch It's not a terrorist.
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Don't move. We're gonna have to cut your clothes off you.
Gary Escalation Cringe/Discomfort I was fine because I was drunk.
Gary Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch She's stuck on a call with the Australian ambassador.
Mike Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Oh, that's good. I've never heard that one before.
No, it's not, actually, but you get marks for trying.
That aspiration is to one day hope to dream together.
Like catching your sister's eye at an orgy.
Dan Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Well, my sister would never be at an orgy. Too uptight. She would want health records from everyone and just kill the momentum...
Amy Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Don't they both die?
Amy Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch That woman has become a living metaphor of her own career.
Dan Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch I feel like one of those old used footballs that they fixed up for the kids at an orphanage.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Unless you want to go down there and sing them a chorus of Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee, you can't go downstairs.
I guess we just follow the trail of her blood and Gary's tears.
Dan Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I think I got that off a Catholic schoolgirl once.
Mike Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun I'll be back.
Gary Character Comedy ★ Rewatch That would solve all of my validation issues with my dad.
Gary Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch God, I hope Iran drops a nuke on DC.
Selina Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch He's like an undead cockroach with his... it's true. He's got that blank look. I bet he doesn't even have a come face.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Can you imagine fucking that guy?
Selina Cringe/Discomfort Escalation In the southern hemisphere, the bullshit actually flows the other way.
I guess it's funny because we've all done it at one point.
I pushed someone through a plate glass door once. That was fucking hilarious.
That's your liaison d'être?
I was born to liaise, sir.
Mike Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch You know that they call me Jonad?
Jonah Character Comedy ★ Rewatch That is tantamount to calling the President Jonad.
Jonah Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch He's the President, you're Jonad.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Now go earn your name change.
Ben Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback I got lost in the double negative, sir. What?
Jonah Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch She's out of her fucking mind.
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Everyone's gonna find out she walked through a glass door, Dan, because she looks like she walked through a fucking glass door.
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch So are mushrooms, dipshit.
Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I'll give you all of it.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Look, she is fuckin' high right now.
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Observational Turning her into Julie Andrews.
Amy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch You just broke his brain, Amy.
Dan Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jesus, look at his stupid gaping mouth. Let's put stuff in it.
Amy Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch You called me Andrew.
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch I can even say your name the other way... Haney.
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Gotta say, I think I handled that pretty well.
Jonah Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch There's something so sexy about being in a hotel in the middle of the day, right?
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Yep, four people to one toilet. You can hear everything that hits the water.
Dan Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch No berets, no Stetsons, no beanies...
Why are you just listing hats?
Jonah Meta/Self-Referential Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Yeah, in 700 days of working with us, you've been right once.
Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch And, um, the only thing that's really hurt is my pride.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Oh, no, that's a fucking wire brush to my hemorrhoids.
Ben Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Fix it, or I'll liaise your balls to your desk.
Ben Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback I love cartoons.
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch That doesn't even look like the Leviathan.
Gary Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Seriously, I am totally overqualified for this job.
Selina Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I changed the 'hallelujah' to 'jalapeño.'
Mike Wordplay/Pun Absurdist You're the world's biggest single-cell organism.
Ben Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Like Sophie's Choice choices, except more important because it's gonna be about me.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch He couldn't tell the difference between real glass and air either.
Amy/Dan Callback Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Did we warn her one of the Get Moving ambassadors was a one-legged veteran?
Mike Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch A win-win by losing. That's good.
Dan Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Oh, come on. Don't be so hard on yourself, Gary.
Selina Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Burn all the White House pets and then yourselves. Burn yourselves first.
Ben Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Those are contradictory orders.
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch What's up, you fuckin' Lorax?
Jonah Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Oh, God, this zipper is like a cheese grater on my dick.
Mike Physical/Slapstick Escalation I'm surprised he gets to work without being hit by a car or punched in the mouth.
Dan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch We can't have you in a photo finish with a banana.
Gary Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch It's a caption contest waiting to happen.
Gary Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch I smell like a hobo's craphole.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation Hey, Mike, I have some sort of hazy memory of me promising to buy your boat.
Selina Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback That's like trying to have sex with somebody who's passed out.
Mike Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch What? I thought your parents were dead.
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch I can't be running off to shindigs put on by the parents of people on my staff.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch I've just always assumed that they were dead.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I thought you were adopted.
Mike Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch