{"id":482790,"date":"2026-05-13T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:40:12","slug":"veep-writers-helped-selina-meyers-roast-stephen-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482790\/","title":{"rendered":"Veep Writers Helped Selina Meyers Roast Stephen Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes, there\u2019s no better way to pay tribute to a dear friend than by lambasting them with insults. (See: any good wedding speech delivered by the \ufeffbride\u2019s younger sister.) Sheep Detectives<\/a> star Julia Louis-Dreyfus brought that spirit to last night\u2019s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. In honor of Colbert\u2019s final show approaching<\/a>, she asked the former Veep<\/a> writers to put together a slew of insults for her to rattle off at Colbert as her character Selina Meyer. \u201cI\u2019ve been on this show multiple times,\u201d \u201cSelina\u201d told Colbert while the Veep theme played, \u201cand I always thought you were Rachel Maddow. Are you not?\u201d<\/p>\n

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. \u201cSo you\u2019re Irish, but you decided to pronounce your name French?\u201d she asked. \u201cThat\u2019s like putting lipstick on a pig, which I understand is what Irish people do before they fuck it.\u201d She also got political, which was appropriate given that Selina is a former president herself. \u201cYour cancellation gave Donald Trump so much pleasure that I always think of you as the Stormy Daniels of late night,\u201d 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. \u201cWhen my people said I should come and say farewell to you, I was hoping it was more of a hospice-type situation,\u201d Selina said. The audience began to cheer, and then, with no hard feelings, the two kissed and made up.<\/p>\n

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