'Veep' Reunion Courts 'Seinfeld's' Larry David, Jason Alexander

VeepSome special guests were booked for the reunion for the election fundraiser.

On Sunday we will be attending a live table reading with the cast and writers of the legendary HBO political comedy Veep Creator Armando Iannucci, along with Larry David, Jason Alexander and Kevin Smith.

“We are very excited to have Armando, the creator of, with us Veepcome to us,” Veep's showrunner David Mandel tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And I’m really excited to have my old boss Larry David along with Jason Alexander. It's something like a miniSeinfeld See you in one filled Veep Reunion. Like a turducken.”

From the filmmaker of such classic franchises as Jay and Silent Bob And MallratsMandel added: “Kevin Smith is the greatest Veep Fan I know and his films have always been so wonderfully bad Veepso having him as part of our table reading is a perfect combination!”

Mandel, who worked as an author Seinfeld for three seasons (and at Smith's Employees: The Animated Series for ABC) took over the role of showrunner at HBO Veep in the fifth season of Iannucci. The political comedy, which ended in 2019 after seven seasons, has only become more relevant in recent years.

After President Joe Biden dropped his 2024 re-election bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee this summer, Iannucci turned to Mandel and leading lady Julia Louis-Dreyfus to reconnect in the midst of it all VeepThe show's resurgence (Max's viewership increased 350 percent and clips of Louis-Dreyfus' formidable politician, Selina Meyer, went viral). Mandel and star Louis-Dreyfus rallied their troops to brainstorm fundraising ideas for the eventual ticket for Harris and Tim Walz, and Ianucci was on board.

The result of their brainstorming is Sunday's virtual table reading, presented by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, one of those viral episodes – Season 3's “Crate,” which aired in 2015, when then-Vice President Meyer (Louis-Dreyfus) finds out about the current one POTUS resigns and promotes her to the Oval Office.

The live event will take place at 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT and will be hosted by Stephen Colbert. The award-winning ensemble consists of Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Sam Richardson and Matt Walsh, Gary Cole, Sarah Rutherland, Clea DuVall and Sufe Bradshaw. Tickets are available here.

“Larry David hates joining and participating in things, so we are honored to have him join us and participate Veep The reunion is a special guest for Wisconsin,” added Louis-Dreyfus, who also hosted a panel discussion with the nation’s eight Democratic governors the week of the Democratic National Convention. “I suspect he'll never let me forget I asked him to do this. And now I’m looking for favors for him, which I already regret.”

For the 2020 election this is Veep Crew and WisDems hosted an all-cast gathering that raised more than $500,000, followed by a crossover event with The West Wing Cast in 2022 for the high-risk midterm elections.

“Our grassroots supporters drive our statewide organizing, and it is this organizing power that is helping us elect Democrats and chart a new path forward in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler said in a statement Statement in announcing the 2024 slate. “Events like this celebrate our long-time supporters and allow us to better reach the people who support our work to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Tammy Baldwin and Democrats across Wisconsin November.”

The event hosted by Colbert also takes place Late show The host got into a war of words with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. After Trump called him “not funny” and “boring” in a Truth Social post earlier this week and called for CBS to terminate his contract – which it did divided by Mandel on X to promote Veep Event – ​​Colbert responded on his show: “[Trump’s] obviously upset because I called him boring. And I called him boring because I knew it would upset him. And that was the case because he’s so predictable, which ultimately makes him kind of boring.”