Gavin says that goal has gotten lost in the weekend glitz - to the point where even he had trouble getting access to some of the parties for his documentary. The purpose of the WHCA is to fight for better access for journalists on the White House beat. In his new documentary “Nerd Prom,” Patrick Gavin takes a look at how a small dinner turned into a weekend of cocktail parties, nightclub bashes and marketing opportunities. dinner - one of the few events covered both by C-SPAN and “Entertainment Tonight.” “I try to make a couple of guesstimates as to where reality might be when the show goes out,” Iannucci said.Ĭelebrities, media executives and political leaders will fill the Washington Hilton on April 25 for the annual White House Correspondents Assn. Meyer will travel this season to Tehran - on the heels of the real-life framework for an agreement with Iran to control its nuclear program. After the Teleprompter episode was shot, Sarah Palin experienced a similar problem while giving a speech, and her attempts to improvise were incoherent. The show has had a knack for mirroring real-life events. She’s said that she is not running, even though she has been mentioned as a presidential prospect.Īs for the 2016 contenders, Iannucci demurred, although he said, “Jeb Bush I find I don’t quite get.” Iannucci says that he finds his view of money in politics in sync with Elizabeth Warren. “You keep chipping away at bits of democracy if you are saying what counts is not what voters think but what business thinks,” he says. Iannucci sees this as a corrosive force in American politics. The show this season also satirizes the influence of money in politics, in particular the revolving door from government to much higher-paying jobs in lobbying. Iannucci says former vice president Al Gore mentioned the incident that gave them the idea. A similar situation happened to Bill Clinton early in his term. In the season premiere, Meyer gives an address to a joint session of Congress, but she finds blank passages on the Teleprompter. There’s another Clinton moment that inspired the show. “There’s actually the Scooby bus, which actually looks kind of threatening - black,” he says. Iannucci already sees some humor in 2016, like the van that Clinton used to get to Iowa this week. The series gets much of its humor from the obsessive focus on “optics,” like Selina’s team spending a fortune on a beer crate she can sit on to act more like an average joe, or her first speech as president overshadowed by the media focus on a pair of squeaky shoes that sounded as she walked to the lectern. And there’s bits of various presidents as well. And there’s bits of Al Gore, and there’s bits of Biden and there’s bits of Cheney in Selina. Selina’s daughter is becoming a creature of politics, and I have certainly asked Sarah Sutherland, who plays Catherine, to have a look at footage of Chelsea doing public stuff. We have certainly taken aspects of the Clinton world in Selina. “It’s inevitable now I suppose that Hillary is campaigning as Selina is president that there will be comparisons made. “We weren’t consciously aping Hillary when we wrote Selina,” he says.
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