Mandel: Mimicking Veep creator Armando Iannucci exactly would produce a poor knockoff
David Mandel · Microsoft's Satya Nadella: Why we need re-founders | Masters of Scale · Sep 15, 2023 · at 19:26
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Showrunner David Mandel discusses taking over HBO's comedy series Veep from creator Armando Iannucci starting in season five.
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“If I had tried to do and write exactly Armando's show, you would have gotten a weird knockoff. I can write Veep, but I can't do an impression of Armando. It just comes off like some weird bootleg, like a weird mimeograph. Slightly smudgy and purple and not quite as good.”
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