Selina attends the opening of President Hughes' library. Jonah gets advice on how to rise in the political ranks; Dan suffers through Jane's whims; Amy releases a negative attack ad.
Political chaos sustains 72 jokes across 44 minutes despite zero standout punchlines.
Directed by Craig Zisk · Written by Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck
WAR
76
Wins Above Replacement
“Library” ranks #19 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.5 — Elite. The episode packs 72 scored jokes at 1.8 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 7.1 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
Unlike small-town America, Andrew fucks me in a way I really enjoy.
Selina Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort If only the American people could've known you for your sense of humor instead of your bizarre indifference to apartheid.
Selina Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Apparently, Andrew kept referring to his penis as the 'First Chubby.'
Amy Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun I really wanna have a reflecting pool someplace for people to come and sit and reflect on what this cocksuck of a country did to me.
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Well, I guess AIDS had a good run.
Selina Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement All Jokes — 72 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Oh, my God. Gary. Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God!
Selina Gary Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch If this were my library, I would make sure the people could sit behind the desk. Can you even have a library? Seems like it'd be more like a bookmobile.
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy If only the American people could've known you for your sense of humor instead of your bizarre indifference to apartheid.
Selina Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive How they 'Jewed him down,' as Mother used to say when she wasn't busy telling me he only picked me as a running mate so that he could look taller.
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Supermodels are your height. It doesn't matter. She's dead. Who cares?
Unlike small-town America, Andrew fucks me in a way I really enjoy.
Selina Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort No Mrs. Hughes. She must be hanging from the rafters somewhere.
Selina Dark/Subversive Visual Gag This is as impromptu as a colonoscopy except with quadruple the assholes.
Selina Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Are we running from something scary, ma'am? No. Richard, you slow down. It'll look like I'm not running. Gary, you go fast. Yep! Oh, no, that's too fast.
I want a goddamn 'look at the size of my dick,' 'bring history to life' presidential library.
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Because you served less than one year? No. Because nobody gives me any respect.
Never forget. Oh, sorry, that's the Holocaust. Totally forgot.
Selina Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun I need a monument to Selina Meyer. An institution. Selina Meyer belongs in an institution.
I wanna talk to every Tom, Dick, and Gehry out there.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Observational Maybe a female candidate. Well, we're not redoing a kitchen, here, you know?
'cause, you know, he was also a part-termer.
Selina Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement That sweaty pederast has ruined more kids than the Common Core.
Furlong Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Luckily, Will's anal halitosis renders him completely unbouffable.
Furlong Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort I'm fortunate to be odious to all colors of the sexual spectrum.
Will Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy So, what is it? Speak, Professor X-Gayvier.
Furlong Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy let me save you the peanut log you're about to squeeze out of your face anus here... no.
Furlong Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort You remain in detention on the Ethics Committee with the rest of the special ed Breakfast Club.
Furlong Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Good luck getting your precious back from those mean hobbits, Sméagol.
Furlong Setup/Punchline Character Comedy That's a false equivalence, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Kent Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Maybe use it for up here and focus on this. Oh, yeah, let's give the people what they want.
Selina Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Well, I guess AIDS had a good run.
Selina Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement As long as he promises not to blow up my library, I mean, I don't really give a shit.
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy I really wanna have a reflecting pool someplace for people to come and sit and reflect on what this cocksuck of a country did to me.
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy I'm gonna scratch it into the paper and then kind of go back over and trace over and see what I wrote before, like in a suspense movie.
They said the Sherman Tanz pardon was unsavory and not in line with the values of Yale. Then they asked for a donation to their annual fund.
Amy Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Just like a Smith girl, open to exploring.
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy I'm not really comfortable with that kind of language.
Richard Reaction Beat Character Comedy Oh, shit! Oh, my God. No, no, we're not hiding anymore. Oh, she's too much! How the fuck long was that kid here for?
Mike Selina Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch I'm sure that there are some bored housewives out there that would enjoy ogling your Walter Cronkite, but to me, it looks like local morning news from, I don't know, Delaware.
Jane Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Wives in this town make the social calendar. Mrs. Furlong likes inviting couples, not unregistered sex offenders.
Kent Setup/Punchline Character Comedy I am a balling bachelor sexual congressman, and I will be passing bills by day and smashing gash by night.
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Congressman, being a bachelor in this town means you're gayer than a TV evangelist.
Kent Setup/Punchline Character Comedy statistically speaking, married politicians have more sex with more single women than single politicians.
Kent Observational Character Comedy Oh, what did you envision, Woody, that you and Buzz Lightyear would win this election and Andy would play with you again?
Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy He's just gotta go to a Laundromat, meet a girl, take her to a movie, a little chit-chat, couple-three drinks, standard hayjay in the cab home, and a year later, he's a father.
Furlong Observational Character Comedy We had to extend to the greater Baltimore, Arlington, Alexandria area to find them. Well, we got a 'maybe' in Delaware. She's waiting to see your hair grow back.
Flux. That's what I said. Did you wanna hang that? Yeah. Great. Wow! I just... I can't believe it. Look at us.
You know what, I'm strictly a scotch girl and I always have been, so I never really experimented... with Chardonnay.
Selina Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort Sherman Tanz is particularly sensitive to prison conditions. And he is intimately involved with every aspect of his company. Now, that being said, he had no idea what was going on.
Selina Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Wait a minute, what? One of you is pregnant? Congratulations. So, which one of you is the carrier?
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Oh, my God. Can you imagine having a baby in Georgia?
Selina Misdirection Character Comedy Why don't you use Gary's sperm? It's just sitting there gathering dust.
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Hey, do you know how they remove a cancerous testicle? No. A lot of people think that they just slice one off, right? What they really do is they make an incision just a little bit further up, and they go in and they grab the testicle, and they pull it out of the scrotum and out through the body.
Jonah Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy 1.5 if we can get his dyslexic daughter into Smith. Well, maybe get her to write the check. Get 5.1 out of him.
Amy Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive People are gonna think you're the hot, young babysitter. No, they won't. Like we played last night. Oh, my God. Stop it, Mr. Meyer.
Message number one... 'I can still taste you in my mouth from last night.' Boy, we should not be listening to that. That's probably to her boyfriend. I imagine she's texting while riding her bicycle and sent it to me by mistake.
Second message... 'You came so much. Andrew, we ruined your wife's pretty office chair. I get so hot thinking of the president sitting in our love puddle. Call me after the fundraiser.'
Car Escalation Cringe/Discomfort That was a long one. She must be at a light.
Selina Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy You are the devil! You are the fucking devil! Gary! Stop! Gary! I swear to God! I will kill you in your face! Stop it!
So, luckily, the doctors were able to remove the mass without a full mastectomy, so I got to keep my nipple. Whoo-hoo, right?
Andrew is very hard to get rid of. He's like the herpes virus or an unwanted child. In this case, he gave me both.
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Right? You just rolled your eyes like the world's bitchiest mime.
Selina Setup/Punchline Character Comedy And only case of schizophrenia, but my uncle-grandpa had her sterilized, and we are all good...
Gary Escalation Character Comedy Listen, honey, I want you to tell your whore of a father that I fired the art skank.
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Ma'am, you are unstable and manipulative, and I worry about the genes you'll pass down to your child... but your ex is worse.
Gary Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Apparently, Andrew kept referring to his penis as the 'First Chubby.'
Amy Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Okay, well, fucked again by the First Chubby.
Selina Callback Wordplay/Pun Callback I'm the only one who didn't do anything wrong in this 'trifuckta.'
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Oh, that is your color.
Gary Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy What am I supposed to do, rehire Frida Swallow?
Selina Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun That's like Princess Di hiring Camilla Parker Bowles to be her limo driver. I mean, I'm just... you know, although in that case, it would've worked out better for her, obviously, but...
Selina Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive I can't believe I spent the night in jail. It's a piddly DUI. In Nevada, that's practically a resume builder. There's a guy driving drunk on the state flag right next to the guy beating his wife.
You wanna see my big, blue balls? This is them!
Buddy Cringe/Discomfort Physical/Slapstick This predator has roofied more women than Kappa Alpha Cosby.
Dan Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Well, you can pack up your crayons and get the fuck out of here.
Selina Character Comedy Setup/Punchline If there's one thing I learned in the Air National Guard, it is respect for a woman in uniform. I have no hate in my heart. I love women, especially my beautiful fiancée, Amy.
Buddy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy