Julia Louis-Dreyfus Drops Absurd Take To Protect Kamala’s Image

Julia Louis-Dreyfus just dropped the craziest take of the 2024 election cycle — and that’s saying something.

Besides Elaine on “Seinfeld,” Louis-Dreyfus will forever be known as Madame Vice President Selena Meyer from “Veep.” But if you think you know her character, you’ve got another thing coming.

The actress said Selena Meyer was “not a Kamala Harris type,” and instead implied that the character was a caricature of Donald Trump. Meyer is “much more like someone from the other party whose name I shall not even utter,” Louis-Dreyfus said on MSNBC.

This has to be a joke, right?

The Vice President is a gaffe machine. The recurring theme of each is how she shoots herself in the foot every time she steps on stage. She jumps at every political opportunity and latches onto it in the shallowest way possible. She tries to be cartoonishly folksy and boldly progressive at the same time. She tries way too hard to appear cool and collected but is transparently uptight and incredibly thin-skinned. And of course, she’s notoriously abusive to her staff to make up for her own incompetence.

Now, which vice president am I talking about? It’s really impossible to tell. This describes both Harris and Meyer to a tee.

The more I think about it, the more I realize Harris is right. You don’t just fall out of a coconut tree; you exist in the context of what came before you. In her case, that “context” is about 65 episodes of “Veep.”