Ask the Fans: ‘Veep’ Showrunner David Mandel Wants Your Answers to These 13 Questions

Tony Hale and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO's Veep. (Photo: HBO)
Tony Hale and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO’s Veep. (Photo: HBO)

TV fans aren’t the only ones who have burning questions. In our series Ask the Fans, Yahoo TV flips the script and finds out what questions producers have always wanted to pose to their viewers.

Next up, David Mandel, showrunner of HBO’s Veep, which returns this Sunday for its sixth season. Read his questions below, then answer as many as you like by replying in the comments section or emailing your thoughts to AskTheFans@yahoo.com by Thursday, April 20. We’ll report the most popular, insightful, and hilarious answers back to Mandel. UPDATE: We’ll post his responses on Friday, April 28.

Showrunner David Mandel, actors Tony Hale, Matt Walsh, Gary Cole, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sam Richardson, Timothy Simons, Anna Chlumsky, and Reid Scott attend 'Featured Session:
Showrunner David Mandel, actors Tony Hale, Matt Walsh, Gary Cole, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sam Richardson, Timothy Simons, Anna Chlumsky, and Reid Scott attend ‘Featured Session: “VEEP” Cast’ last month. (Photo: Amy E. Price/Getty Images)

David Mandel asks the fans:

1. Is Selina Meyer a good person in any way? Why do you root for her?

2. What character on our show would you least like to work for?

3. Do you think Homeland would benefit from a Jonah-type character? Who on that show should we trade him for?

4. What do you think will happen first: America electing a female president or Gary wearing corduroy?

5. What’s your favorite episode of Veep?

6. Is it pronounced “CH-lumsky” or “K-lumsky”? We’ve never been sure, and now it’s kind of too late to ask her.

7. What line of work would best suit Mike McLintock?

8. Our writing offices were one flight above Rizzoli & Isles. Are you a Rizzoli or an Isles?

9. Could Veep exist on a regular TV network?

10. In the Age of Trump, are you less interested in watching a show written by Jewish writers?

11. What stories would you like to see next season? Please provide a detailed outline with jokes.

12. Do you want to know what happened on Labor Day?

13. What do you think happened?

Season 6 of Veep premieres April 16 at 10:30 p.m. on HBO.

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