In Iowa, Selina courts possible caucus voters at a book signing for her new autobiography, while her team attends a staff wedding in D.C. As the day proceeds, she and her staff get word of a rumor that could affect the next election.
Veep stumbles back to form with 78 jokes in 34 minutes, but impact underwhelms the density.
Directed by Chris Addison · Written by Will Smith, Sean Gray
WAR
35.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Some New Beginnings” ranks #65 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 69.1 — Mixed. The episode packs 78 scored jokes at 2.3 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.3 on impact, with Selina landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jonah Ryan, 2026! That's a mid-terms year, Jonah. Well, then, I'll change it!
Jonah Dan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch You catch more flies with honey than with bad language. Get out of the way, or I'll fucking inhale you.
Ben Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Now if you will excuse me, I am at a wedding, and women at a wedding are like ripe fruit ready to drop. And I am a sex wasp.
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Eighteen months is an entire pregnancy with another entire pregnancy tacked onto the end of it.
I hate how he learned English from pornography.
Amy Character Comedy Observational All Jokes — 78 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Is that a Star Wars reference, 'A New Beginning'? Our Next American Journey.
Too late to change it? It is. Yeah.
I call it Some New Beginnings because it's plural.
Selina Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch I would hate to be that local Iowa guy that's gotta take care of her, trying to source gazpacho in a city that thinks soup is for fags.
Dan Character Comedy Observational Man, you guys should all marry Wendy. I feel amazing.
Mike Character Comedy Absurdist Would you like me to mold the cake into a pair of testicles for you, Gary?
Amy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Yeah, dream the fuck on, Dan. I'm only being nice to you because I know that Selina's gonna make me the campaign manager.
Amy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Unless POTUS is chiseling his fucking statement out of marble, I don't get it.
Dan Observational Escalation You have more nervous tics than a shoe-bomber.
Amy Character Comedy Observational If it melted, would it become Texas?
Selina Wordplay/Pun Observational You know, butter doesn't need to be refrigerated. It can be unrefrigerated or refrigerated. That's not true. I think it's like a fruit that way. No.
Well, whatever it is, I'm hearing the West Wing is abuzz like a fly in a shithouse.
Either you put your phone in the phone bowl or I put it in the punch bowl.
Wendy Escalation Character Comedy Isn't she funny? We crack up all the time. Even when we're having sex.
Mike Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy You guys, I've been a reporter for 18 years. If anything breaks, I promise I will put it into the vows.
Wendy Character Comedy Observational It's like losing a limb. I can feel a phantom phone ringing right now.
Amy Observational Escalation He does bring baby wipes everywhere. You never know if we're gonna need 'em when we...
Mike Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Amy, a good campaign manager always has to think one phone ahead.
Dan Character Comedy Observational Yes, and I likewise am disappointed that you have not. Amateur.
Dan Character Comedy Escalation Hey, Richard, no offense... None taken. ...you're a catastrophe. Okay.
Then you got married. And I love that story.
Selina Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Oh, it's no problem. You're in Iowa, and, you know, you have to suckle Iowa.
Wendy Observational Character Comedy I feel like I'm Joe Public here. I know nothing. And I don't like that feeling.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President has to step out for a moment to take a phone call with a senator. He's having a big problem. It's...
Gary Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort I am but a satellite caught in the gravity of your planet, Wendy.
Mike Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort I was headed for the fall when you, Michael, gave me back my spring.
Wendy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort My official statement to the press reads thus, 'We are in love, come celebrate.'
Wendy Character Comedy Observational We are in love, come celebrate.
Wendy Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Stand aside, asshole.
Ben Character Comedy Escalation You catch more flies with honey than with bad language. Get out of the way, or I'll fucking inhale you.
Ben Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Do you have a preference on water? Because I'm all about Fiji.
God, he was a 4'11" stick of dynamite. A great man inside a small man.
Ben Character Comedy Observational Stick one of those in Ricky's hand, he would have looked like an average-sized man.
Ben Visual Gag Escalation Callback I got a jet here that could cut a fucking diamond.
Dan Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy 'Lifting the lid on the Inter-agency Softball League'? 'Face to Face with America's Wind Tycoons.' Wow. This is some seriously butter knife-dull shit, man.
Dan Observational Character Comedy If it ain't on WestWingMan, it ain't no thing, man.
Jonah Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Now if you will excuse me, I am at a wedding, and women at a wedding are like ripe fruit ready to drop. And I am a sex wasp.
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Are you kidding? My pheromones make bitches moan. I'm gonna leave a trail right back to my apartment.
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Look at us. You pretending to be me signing a book I didn't even write. That's politics in a nutsack.
Selina Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch It's so full of shit, there's a colon right smack-dab in the middle.
Ben Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Like, Footsteps to the Future was one. Red, White and You was actually another one. Yes Hands of Our Children.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation What? It's like a massacre or something. Fuckin' sick.
Ben Dark/Subversive Reaction Beat Eighteen months is an entire pregnancy with another entire pregnancy tacked onto the end of it.
You know, get my hands dirty? I could be your midwife.
Ben Character Comedy Callback Callback You know, I heard that dog picked him up and shook him really bad.
Ben Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Callback Jonah, what's the point? You don't show up in photographs.
Amy Character Comedy Observational Shit on my tits. Maddox just resigned.
Amy Character Comedy Escalation I hate how he learned English from pornography.
Amy Character Comedy Observational Stop flapping your vestigial limbs around.
Ben Character Comedy Observational FYI, it may not be his real name.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy I was voted Most Likely To Do Something Now in my class yearbook.
Dan Character Comedy Absurdist The closest you'll get to a political career will be selling Nixon masks at a Halloween shop, okay?
Dan Character Comedy Escalation Just open the door while we're moving, climb under the car like Indiana Jones, pop up on the hood and write a note on the windshield.
I got about a half inch for you. You exaggerate.
You guys are just like two little pretty Easter eggs. I'd love to crack you open.
Jonah Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy It's a hashtag hurricane, bitch tits.
Jonah Character Comedy Escalation You don't think you should go fist a chimp?
Jonah Character Comedy Absurdist What's Google's number? I don't know. Ask Jeeves.
He's the bubonic fuckin' plague of this party.
Ben Character Comedy Observational I kinda wish it was me in that box.
Blake Dark/Subversive Character Comedy The prime minister of Scotland is on the line right now.
Gary Character Comedy Observational Leave. But I work here. Not anymore.
There is a dead guy in the pool, and that dead guy is you.
Ben Character Comedy Escalation The West Wing is part of my DNA and vice verse.
Jonah Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun That bag of wrist slits got the nomination?
Selina Character Comedy Dark/Subversive You think I got here just 'cause I got $50 million in the bank and this amazing ass?
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch In fact, I was gonna say 'short,' but I know how sensitive Rick was about his height.
Selina Callback Character Comedy Callback You think you've seen the end of Jonah Ryan? You haven't even seen the start of Jonah Ryan!
Jonah Character Comedy Escalation I'm leaving here with my head held high and my nuts hanging low on your mom's chin, Martin.
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort And when he got that first bite, whoa, did he reel it in.
Selina Callback Character Comedy Callback Jonah Ryan, 2026! That's a mid-terms year, Jonah. Well, then, I'll change it!
Jonah Dan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Well, I blew the fuckin' roof off of this church, didn't I? They loved that beer labels anecdote.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback I'm never ambiguous, ma'am. Not even sexually.
Ben Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Well, all my orgasms have come at once.
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Oh, Jesus Christ. I hate politics.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm This is the best day of my life!
Wendy Character Comedy Escalation I was gonna say 'baldly,' but I know how sensitive Mike is about his hair.
Selina Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback 'Some New Beginnings: Their Next American Journey'!
Selina Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback 