On Watergate: "The more researched we all did, the more we learned just how incompetent they were" On Veep: "We wrote very elaborate jokes, long jokes that no human would ever say. In this, we never had to write jokes." on Car: "Those are not jokes. Those are facts that happened to be very strange and very funny" The film is out in U.S. cinemas now.
From the verdict in Trump’s sexual assault case to the Santos indictment and the Supreme Court saga, scandal is rife in Washington. Today we turn to the OG: Watergate, as examined in the new HBO series, “White House Plumbers.” Writers and creators Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory and director David Mandel discuss how the show compares to their last collab (“Veep”), trace a line between the blind allegiance to Nixon in the 1970s and the “Big Lie” of 2020 and contemplate what a Trump scandals series may look like 50 years from now would be like (think: Timothée Chalamet as Rudy Giuliani).
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