Gary sets up a secret meeting with Dan and Amy to persuade them to lobby against Selina's bill.
Veep hits 88 with 99 jokes in 38 minutes—peak output density across the entire series.
Directed by Becky Martin · Written by Andy Riley, Tony Roche, Kevin Cecil
WAR
125.7
Wins Above Replacement
“B/ill” ranks #3 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 88.2 — Elite. The episode packs 99 scored jokes at 2.6 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.2 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
You're Fozzie Bear who's been ripped up and used to smuggle heroin.
Selina Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Look, I wouldn't ask you to do anything I wouldn't do myself. And while that isn't true, find some comfort in it.
Selina Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch I feel like I'm captain of the Titanic and I carved out the iceberg myself.
Selina Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Call NASA. They've got to have a satellite that can pinpoint a moron.
I didn't hear any of this 'cause I have a really bad case of tinnitus, especially when discussing morally dubious things. So it's kind of like sinnitus.
Mike Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 99 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Go get yourself 10 sodas and you never saw us. Or just water. Just choose water.
Gary Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch I don't even paint my own nails, Gary. A Vietnamese lady does that.
Amy Character Comedy Observational I am very good at my job, and even I can't get people to vote for that heap of mystery meat.
Amy Observational Wordplay/Pun She has gone full Colonel Kurtz.
Amy Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Is she giving orders from under the desk?
Dan Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Loyalty? Money. Can't you just do this for Selina? No.
Dan Gary Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nobody shakes hands in a craft shop.
Gary Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch You know, at least three of these kids are probably mine.
Dan Dark/Subversive Character Comedy No, no, let me get that, you sweet little invalid.
Gary Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch God, Gary, I wish to Jesus that you had gotten this flu instead of me. Oh, my God, me, too. Me, too.
Selina Gary Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch And that is a Gary Walsh executive order.
Gary Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch 211 are voting against the bill. Five undecided. And we've got three yeses that we're working on turning around into nos. So defeat is within our grasp.
Ben Irony/Sarcasm Absurdist ★ Rewatch There's also a cool tile game on here if you want to play a game. A what? A tile? Which, of course, you don't want to play.
Gary Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch What I don't know, I can't lie about. Including this, whatever this is.
Mike Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch We're asking people to vote yes. We're doing what we should be doing. We're just doing it badly.
Ben Irony/Sarcasm Absurdist ★ Rewatch I think I just sneezed up part of my pancreas.
Don't worry, Mike. We have a team of our worst people on this. Cazzelli, Lennox. The usual saps. Jonah, Richard.
Ben Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I didn't hear any of this because the acoustics are so bad.
Mike Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy How did they write this thing? Get drunk and tape crayons to their feet?
Two giant children in their dads' suits.
We've glanced at the numbers, sir, and at first glance they are very compelling.
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch You don't know where the door is. I'll show you. It's over here.
So if I can offer any web design or support... Sir, can I ask you how you're going to vote today? No. Is that no as in I can't ask you or no as in...
You know, you just started that last sentence with a 'we' and you finished it with a 'you.'
Tom Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch There is nothing like a Boston wedding. Let me tell you that. Wow, that was worryingly good, Tom. I mean, that was some black belt jujitsu bullshit right there.
Tom Ben Misdirection Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch When was yours sent? When was yours sent? I asked you first.
Gary Kent Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Yeah, ahem, or maybe I can get a new doctor. In which case I'll just say keep taking the fluids, ma'am.
I feel like I'm captain of the Titanic and I carved out the iceberg myself.
Selina Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch I can sleep when I'm dead in about an hour.
Selina Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Not since Herod has there been a piece of legislation so damaging to average families.
Dan Observational Meta/Self-Referential This is akin to carrying out heart surgery with a pair of spoons.
Dan Observational Absurdist I don't need to be ridden by you two lobby horses to know that this bill is a waste of bowel space.
And spoiler alert, they do not add up.
Dan Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Six-foot waxwork and his cuddly boyfriend?
Call the 'Washington Post.' I smell conspiracy.
Okay, sure, so why is this one shaking like Elvis's leg?
The president is qualified to be president because she is president. Does your party have a candidate who is president?
Tom Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Oh, no, I was just sending a memo. I didn't want to keep interrupting all the time. That is very considerate. Thank you.
Selina Tom Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Send memo. Jesus. I'm not getting any memos. Oh, now I am.
Selina Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback And you've got to be aggressive, though, you know? Man up here a little bit. Be aggressive? I'm starting to get really angry, Senator.
That's it. I'm throwing the debate. You win, pretend opponent.
Tom Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential Oh, one. So one's okay. We just let off one nuke at the Super Bowl.
I didn't hear any of this 'cause I have a really bad case of tinnitus, especially when discussing morally dubious things. So it's kind of like sinnitus.
Mike Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch But I'm implicated. I'm the linchpin. I could go to jail!
Gary Character Comedy Escalation This isn't about you, Gary. Jesus, nothing here is ever about you.
Ben Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Listen, Sue, I'm involved with some stuff here. Scary stuff like take it to your grave kind of stuff. And that's the... that's the way I like it.
Gary Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch I'm kind of having fun. I like having a cover story. Makes me feel like a Charlie's Angel.
Amy Character Comedy Observational Jesus, you know, I always thought the old Amy was kind of an uptight bitch, but now I sort of miss her.
Dan Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm What, you mean not funny?
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential No, mine was the master list. Your list was a sub-list. It was a sur-list, which means over-list.
Kent Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Your earwax could bring down a president.
And then we're gonna have to destroy the evidence and that's conspiracy to commit fraud. No, a cash trail is very fucking bad for us.
Ben Escalation Character Comedy There, you've been blooded. So join the circle jerk. Grab a dick.
Ben Dark/Subversive Escalation Wish I could hear what you were saying over that incessant drilling sound.
Mike Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback But you're not. Oh, my God, now you are! Well done. Now I feel a lot better.
Ben Character Comedy Escalation My future depends on that dumb fucking elf?
Selina Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch And your support will shrink faster than a penis in the December Hudson.
Dan Observational Absurdist You shit-eating cocksuckers.
Amy Escalation Character Comedy That's exactly what you just did, dumbass.
Dan Setup/Punchline Character Comedy She's probably gonna die just to spite me. That evil bitch.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Well, this is a long glass of frozen strawberry fuckup.
Ben Wordplay/Pun Observational I don't want to be a bagman for the toughest guy in D block.
Gary Character Comedy Escalation You shouldn't even be here, Jonah, unless you're giving your brain to science.
Amy Setup/Punchline Observational Do you remember her? She's the woman that would have fired you if you hadn't gone fucking Fukushima.
Amy Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch I am surprised the two of you even found your way out of your own mothers' vaginas. Oh, my God, dude, I got out of there like I had a fucking map.
Amy Jonah Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Do you think I want to be in this fucking Minecraft piece of shit?
Dan Observational Character Comedy You colossal fucking fanny pack.
Dan Observational Character Comedy You're so stupid, you don't even know that you're being used for your stupidity.
Dan Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch I took a precision driving class, Dan. I think I know what I'm doing.
Richard Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm We should have hired Navy SEALs instead of those two actual seals.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch How do you lose a whole person? A cuff link I get, but not a person.
You guys are. You're parasites. You're like an infestation of mediocrity.
You're Fozzie Bear who's been ripped up and used to smuggle heroin.
Selina Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Call NASA. They've got to have a satellite that can pinpoint a moron.
If you want to catch a fugitive, you got to think like a fugitive. Where's he going? Uh, to the airport. Why would he be going to the airport? To catch a plane, Dan.
That's the kind of shit that comes back to bite you when you run for office. Yeah, that's what's gonna hold you back.
Okay, new rule in the Cube. If your name begins with D, you need to shut the fuck up immediately. I'm fine because my name begins with an R.
Richard Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Not if we shorten it to Dick. Well, I mean...
But she might get better. Or she might not get better. She could be buried with a book.
Pierce Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch I feel like I'm about to kick it old school and die in office.
Selina Dark/Subversive Observational Guess I should kill it. Is the right answer.
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement You could grow tomatoes in here.
Gary Observational Absurdist You can't come in. That comes from the president. Well, she's a bitch.
Tom Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy See you later, ghosts of staffers past.
Mike Observational Meta/Self-Referential I brought him also, ma'am. Richard Splett. She already knows who you are. You can go. No, no, no. Not you. Not you.
Dallas. I love Dallas, Texas. No, it needs to be a foreign city.
J'adore Paris. I've never been, but it looks amazing.
Pierce Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Okay, the president, she wants me to vote against her bill? Am I being stupid here? Yes. Yes. No. I mean, you're... No, you're not being...
You can have Paris. What? I can have Paris? Wow, thank you.
For a moment, Gary was the most powerful person in the world.
Ben Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch We'll call him after the vote, tell him it's Mogadishu.
Ben Character Comedy Dark/Subversive He even walks dumb. Every time I see him, I hear circus music.
Selina Observational Character Comedy Come on, Owen. It's your time to shine, you dim fucking bulb.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Apart from, like, having a raccoon take a shit in my head.
Look, I wouldn't ask you to do anything I wouldn't do myself. And while that isn't true, find some comfort in it.
Selina Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch She sounds like an underwater Bob Dylan.
Mike Observational Absurdist Fuck you, America.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy That's why I included the second glossory.
Selina Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch How do you leave a memo in your sleep?
Mike Observational Absurdist Callback