Emmy Quickie: ‘Veep’ Star Tony Hale Picks His Favorite Insults From the Series (Exclusive Video)

“We show behind the curtain,” actor says about HBO’s satire of Washington power players

The insults and one-liners on “Veep” come fast and furious, with every episode of HBO’s political satire packed with some of the funniest and most creative put-downs on television. No character is ever spared, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ titular lead.

But Tony Hale, who plays her personal assistant, Gary Walsh, has a soft spot for the insults directed at one of his cast mates: Timothy Simons, whose perpetually upward-failing Jonah Ryan rarely goes a scene without getting a barb about his height or a nickname comparing him to a testicle.

Hale told TheWrap that a line comparing Jonah to “the Washington monument, if the Washington monument was made entirely of dead dicks” was among his favorites.

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