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Sometimes, there’s no better way to pay tribute to a dear friend than by lambasting them with insults. (See: any good wedding speech delivered by the bride’s younger sister.) Sheep Detectives star Julia Louis-Dreyfus brought that spirit to last night’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. In honor of Colbert’s final show approaching, she asked the former Veep writers to put together a slew of insults for her to rattle off at Colbert as her character Selina Meyer. “I’ve been on this show multiple times,” “Selina” told Colbert while the Veep theme played, “and I always thought you were Rachel Maddow. Are you not?”
Colbert is a huge fan of Veep, and it was clearly an honor to get roasted by Selina Meyer. He spent the entire segment smiling ear to ear as she got funnier, meaner, and crasser. “So you’re Irish, but you decided to pronounce your name French?” she asked. “That’s like putting lipstick on a pig, which I understand is what Irish people do before they fuck it.” She also got political, which was appropriate given that Selina is a former president herself. “Your cancellation gave Donald Trump so much pleasure that I always think of you as the Stormy Daniels of late night,” she told Colbert. Though he enjoyed the whole spectacle, the late-night host laughed the hardest at a line that gestured toward his own death. “When my people said I should come and say farewell to you, I was hoping it was more of a hospice-type situation,” Selina said. The audience began to cheer, and then, with no hard feelings, the two kissed and made up.
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