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The gods of comedy have heard your prayers\\u2014and just might make them come true. \\u201cVeep,\\u201d the greatest political comedy of all time, could return, somehow, some way, in some form, if only for a short while. 

\\u201cWe\'ve certainly discussed it,\\u201d star Julia-Louis Dreyfus tells Molly Jong-Fast on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. \\u201cEverybody\'s sort of gone off now and everybody\'s doing other projects and so on. But I don\'t rule it out entirely, doing some sort of \\u2018Veep\\u2019-related thing. I mean, there\'s an area that we could jump back into. I think [showrunner] Dave [Mandel] and I have talked about it.\\u201d 

Mandel adds, \\u201cWe left just enough sort of like there\'s some time jumps in there that you could definitely\\u2014\\u201d

\\u201cGo back into,\\u201d Dreyfus offers.

\\u201cYeah. You could kind of color in and answer a couple of questions. So I think anything is possible,\\u201d Mandel says.

Not so long ago, Mandel and Dreyfus were wondering aloud how possible it was to do political satire with Trump in the White House. How do you parody a parody?

Now, Dreyfus says, \\u201cThere\'s always an opportunity for satire and we\'re hopeful that with the Biden administration, you know, things will sort of settle down and then we can be the outrageous ones.\\u201d

\\u201cYeah. It requires a baseline of normalcy. And if we can get back to that, if we can get back to a time where you\'re not thinking about the president every six minutes, I think maybe we can get back to some good old fashioned political satire,\\u201d Mandel adds. \\u201cBut [the Trumpists] made it difficult. They raise the bar on stupidity on a daily basis. So it was very hard to out-stupid. You know what I mean?

In the meantime\\u2014this weekend, in fact\\u2014the \\u2018Veep\\u2019 cast is getting back together to recreate one of the craziest, most prescient episodes of the show. In it, The Beast\\u2019s Kevin Fallon noted, protesters are planted [who] \\u201calternately chant to \\u2018count every vote\\u2019 and \\u2018stop counting the votes\\u2019 as new information trickles in, changing their message based on which strategy would be more advantageous to them.\\u201d 

Sound familiar? But here\\u2019s the truly crazy part. That\\u2019s "an episode from the fifth season of \\u2018Veep,\\u2019 so many years back," Dreyfus says. 2016, to be exact.

"Yes, \\u2018Veep\\u2019 is real. It\'s a documentary. And it\'s about real life," she jokes.

The re-read of the episode\\u2014\\u2014featuring guest stars Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjiani, Mark Hamill, and Stephen Colbert\\u2014is a fundraiser for a group looking to boost turnout in the upcoming Georgia special elections. Dreyfus thought it\\u2019d be cool to "read the very script that seemed to become reality the last couple of weeks. Let\'s read that, a sort of an uncut version of it."

The cast did a similar thing in advance of the general election. Maybe they\\u2019ll get used to being back together. Maybe it\\u2019ll become a habit. Maybe, maybe, just maybe\\u2026 

The gang also talk to Matt Tyrnauer, who produced Showtime\'s limited-series "The Reagans," about the myth of "Saint Reagan" and how he held the press in a "fog of war" to earn him his esteemed reputation which the crew find undeserved.

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