Post-election night: Selina discovers a possible road to victory. Meanwhile, Amy must figure out if she is back or not; Catherine kicks off a behind-the-scenes documentary project; Mike announces that he and Wendy are adopting a baby from China; and Dan considers a new career.
Season premiere escalates political chaos at 1.94 jokes-per-minute across 74 rapid-fire gags.
Directed by Chris Addison · Written by David Mandel
WAR
103.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Morning After” ranks #4 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 88.0 — Elite. The episode packs 74 scored jokes at 1.9 per minute, averaging 7.6 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
Then I declare a state of go fuck yourself.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Faces from the savannahs of Africa to the cities and towns of England. Faces from... from Holland and even perhaps Norway.
SELINA Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Two great Greek contributions to society... democracy and getting fucked up the ass. I've tried both and they're way overrated, like jazz.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Actually, four Christian missionaries burned to death. Oh, even better.
BEN SELINA Dark/Subversive Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Any chance they fixed the Wi-Fi? I'll check.
All Jokes — 74 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Can we have the room? Fantastic speech, ma'am. The three Ss... strength, stability and bullshit.
SELINA BEN Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch I forgot to thank the voters for making our country look like a high school Spanish club.
SELINA Observational Dark/Subversive Didn't those founding fuckers ever hear of an odd number?
SELINA Observational Irony/Sarcasm Two great Greek contributions to society... democracy and getting fucked up the ass. I've tried both and they're way overrated, like jazz.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch My bowling coach used to say a tie was like kissing your sister. Well, this feels like my sister took a shit on my chest.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Escalation There is no world in which I am going to be vice president to that smug, Dick Van Dyke-looking motherfucker Tom James.
SELINA Character Comedy Observational Oh, believe me, I know what she majored in. 65 grand a year to watch movies.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Okay, we don't have time to hear the story of your syndrome. What about your minor, dance? Why don't you make up a little kind of a dance about the election? You know, you can't decide should you dance or should you not dance?
You're gonna shatter the bulletproof glass in here.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Escalation Life gives you Yemen, you got to make Yemenade.
SELINA Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline The only thing Catherine ever finished was an entire ice cream cake.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Actually, four Christian missionaries burned to death. Oh, even better.
BEN SELINA Dark/Subversive Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch This thing on the side of my face feels like a dog nipple.
It's hardly noticeable, ma'am, like our Hispanic voter turnout.
AMY Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive I don't know what's getting their dicks harder, an electoral college tie or talking to a girl.
AMY Setup/Punchline Observational It's a pimple that erupted during a very stressful time.
GARY Deadpan/Understatement Wordplay/Pun For the stress pimple? Ben gets those on his butt. She should see a doctor.
KENT Observational Deadpan/Understatement Actually, Wendy was keeping it a secret from me until today because I'm so bad with keeping secrets.
Kent Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch You're a nincompoop. We are in the middle of a tied election. There is no time for some Chinese baby.
SELINA Character Comedy Escalation Cancel it and see if you can get your money back. Fortune cookie say you fuck up big-time, round eye.
SELINA Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Too bad you're not counting your missteps. You'd be done by breakfast, right?
SELINA Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun How many abortions does a pro-lifer have to pressure his mistress into before the people turn on him? Three.
Yeah, drive sober. Take a shit without getting a hernia.
BEN Setup/Punchline Escalation I don't think that we're symposium on race desperate yet.
SELINA Observational Irony/Sarcasm There's only one person I'd be more surprised to see today in the Roosevelt Room and that's Teddy fucking Roosevelt.
BEN Setup/Punchline Escalation You're as welcome here as a swastika-shaped shit in a synagogue.
BEN Setup/Punchline Escalation Oh, they all look alike to me. What? Not Chinese people, but pictures of children.
SELINA Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch The agency says she's either 16 months or three years old.
MIKE Absurdist Observational You ran one campaign for two weeks and had a nervous breakdown. That is medically inaccurate.
GREG DAN Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Go out, win a race with a Jesus-loving homophobic homosexual or a racist billionaire.
GREG Absurdist Observational Any chance they fixed the Wi-Fi? I'll check.
I am not quite seeing it, um, only because I'm... well, you are...
SELINA Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch She smells completely different, so, you know...
GARY Deadpan/Understatement Misdirection ★ Rewatch 'Nev-add-a.'
Kent Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Nev-add-a. Oh, my God. I get to be president. I don't have to move.
SELINA Character Comedy Observational Two. Constitutional law and veterinary medicine, which was my fallback. But you were getting my coffee. Which is much harder 'cause you have so many different moods.
I actually did my doctorate in recount procedures in the West. Excellent work, Richard. Richard works for me.
This is highly enriched weapons-grade bullshit.
Jonah Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch She's Uncle Dursley and she's got the great wizard Harry Potter living under the staircase. Do you see that? But what happens in the Harry Potter books? He rises up and he kills all the muggles. I don't think that's what happens.
The Dow is dropping lower than my balls on a hot summer day.
BEN Setup/Punchline Observational Zitzilla just stomped all over Wall Street.
BEN Wordplay/Pun Visual Gag He says, 'The market crash caused a blotch on the face of America.' Is that about my pimple?
You baked a fucking soufflé on my face.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Escalation Did he just say zit? How come no one ever tries to assassinate a vice president?
SELINA Dark/Subversive Absurdist Like an empty cop car they park on the side of the road to slow speeders. Those cars are empty?
I'm on it, ma'am, like brown on rice.
BEN Wordplay/Pun Observational No, he's... God, he's deviating from the book of the things that he should do. You mean off the rails. Oh. Fine, he's off the rails.
Look, regardless of the recount, this could mean big things for zucchini.
AMY Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch You can't fire me, I quib. You know it's supposed to say quit. Well, I just fired you anyway. You can't quib, you rebard.
We are doubling down on O'Brien, so you're basically as useless to me as a 40-year-old woman.
Purcell Dark/Subversive Character Comedy It's called POTUS. Pimple of the United States. There are 220,000 followers as of five minutes ago. How many Twitter followers do I have? Approaching that.
Oh, czar she blows.
TOM Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Well, respectfully, Madam President, I hope you do because if the President of the United States can't tell the difference between Treasury Secretary and stock market patsy, that's pretty disturbing.
TOM Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm I have to balance that against my need not to do it.
TOM Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline I'm not picking up any respect. But you're getting the declining?
If she does that to her own goddamn name, how the hell is she going to handle a potential recount?
AMY Setup/Punchline Escalation If she does that to her own goddamn name, how the hell is she going to handle a potential recount?
Amy Observational Escalation All you're doing right now is making me hungry. So why don't you do something about that?
SELINA Setup/Punchline Misdirection Hi, it's Candi with an I. Amy with a Y. Which is correct.
You know Jonah. He works for me. In fact, you two used to date, but you never got over him.
RICHARD Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Cliff, my plate is just full of shit right now and I'd like for you to clean that.
JONAH Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Well, I am enjoying a delicious sandwich made even more delicious by the fact that there's a homeless guy watching me eat it.
DAN Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Right now you're about as toxic as a urinal cake in Chernobyl and I am offering you a job.
AMY Setup/Punchline Escalation 18,000 steps. I am Chinese baby ready.
MIKE Observational Character Comedy I LBJ'd you, okay? I'm the LBJ queen and you are Sargent 'Suck It' Shriver.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Kind of like the national debt.
Kind of like the national debt.
Selina Observational Deadpan/Understatement And this thing up my ass has got to get removed, too.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Then I declare a state of go fuck yourself.
SELINA Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun I don't mean this to sound insensitive, but don't you think that mudslides are the funniest kind of natural disasters? I've always been partial to sinkholes. You know, ah! Those are hilarious. Nature's trapdoor.
What the fuck is going on here? Why are they all white? Looks like the NHL All-Star Weekend.
SELINA Observational Setup/Punchline We need to round up some blacks and fast. We need to round up... Don't say it over the radio, asshole.
SELINA BEN Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Faces from the savannahs of Africa to the cities and towns of England. Faces from... from Holland and even perhaps Norway.
SELINA Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch In your fucking face, Sue.
SELINA Callback Reaction Beat Callback