  In the current series of Veep, Selina
Meyer the Vice President becomes the President
  Which has involved us talking to lots
of people who work for Presidents and
observing the Presidency. One
thing that struck me is how frustrated
and how limited is
the power of the President. Anything I
do in how I portray politics
is really borne out of the same
frustration I think
  that is being felt by electors
and voters. Or indeed people
who choose not to vote. That's
really what I'm trying to tap into
So I think there's always a danger
that if you call yourself
  a satirist, which is something
I try and shy away from
  it, kind of, implies that you're
revelling in everyone's misfortune
and I'm not. I mean, the theme of
this is optimism and I fundamentally
always feel positive about politics
I'm very passionate about politics
you know, I want politics to work
I get frustrated
at those points where I see
that it's not working. That's where
creatively, I feel I can
do something or respond to it
A lot of people who say to me
aren't
  you being cynical about politicians
I say, actually, the most human people
in my shows are actually the elected
politicians. It's the people they
surround themselves with that
become the, kind of, the agencies
of their destruction.
  It's worth pointing out that I think
we, as a public, as
an electorate, are contradictory
You know, we don't like our politicians
to have holidays and to
make money and to have
a life outside Westminster
We don't like it. Yet neither
do we like them to be robots
and just talk about politics
We like them to be human, like
Farage and Boris Johnson
We like that roughness about
them, the fact that they might say something
embarrassing. I'm going to do some
films now. Veep
is going to carry on, but
  after the fourth season which is going out
now
  I've stood down. I've offered my
resignation as show runner
on Veep, which has been accepted
  I'm going to do some films. I'm doing a film
next year about the death of Stalin
  Which might be funny, but it's based
on true events. I'm writing
a comedy script about artificial
intelligence. So I'm very
much looking forward to tomorrow's session
That laugh out loud topic, artificial
intelligence. Thank you very much. Armanda
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Iannucci everyone.
  Thank you
