I really like the way he works, that style of improvised drama. They are always removing themselves, he's never in arm’s reach," says Simons, who calls Jonah an ultimately sad and broken man.
Veep is an American political satire comedy television series that aired on HBO from April 22, 2012, to May 12, 2019. ""The things I will miss (about filming in Baltimore) will be like, Sundays when Kevin and and Gary and whatever Chicagoan guest star has been cast, and Sam and Matt, we would all go to one of the hotel rooms, like a Homewood Suites efficiency where we're staying, and Matt would make chili and we would watch the Bears game. (Michael Noble Jr./Chicago Tribune)
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So my only guess is that it would probably look a lot like the world that we have now, which is to say: abject chaos."When it comes to Jonah, "Women don’t really let themselves get close enough for him to even touch them inappropriately. The night before we met at Lutz Cafe, Simons said he had been at the Mission Theater to watch Pasquesi perform; his usual improv partner, T.J. Jagodowski, was unavailable, so Tracy Letts filled in.Hale is one of only a few actors on the show who doesn't have a Chicago connection. Chicago is also where he met his wife, Annie.
"A Jonah Ryan presidency, if that were to happen, would probably look a lot like the one that we have now.
"I feel like one of the great things about the group (at 'Veep') is that, because of Chicago, you're basically one degree away from everyone," he said. He's definitely neurotic — and he will be very open about that. But Swanberg is obviously a Chicagoan, so being able to keep in touch with him, I want that. By Nina Metz. "I had never met Sam before he was on the show" — Second City alum Sam Richardson, who played Jonah's sweet dope of a lackey this season — "but we have 100 friends in common, 100 bars in common, 100 classic Chicago things in common. And it feels like family very quickly." “Maybe one will come up in the future,” he said. Everybody has a connection to it. And that's a thread that ties through the entire show with Gary Cole and Kevin Dunn and Matt Walsh and Julia Louis-Dreyfus" (whom he calls "Jules").
So it's not just that you make bad decisions on the football field, you just make bad (expletive) decisions.