Selina and her staff prepare for inauguration day. Mike suffers exhaustion. Catherine gets a makeover.
Inauguration day descends into chaos: 56 jokes in 101 minutes of pure cringe.
Directed by Becky Martin · Written by Jim Margolis
WAR
55.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Inauguration” ranks #39 of 65 Veep episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.1 — Elite. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 1.8 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 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
Selina, good news. We found the missing Nevada ballots. You won.
Kent Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch General George Washington could climb out of his grave right now and I would rather eat out his zombified wooden asshole twice a day than be his vice fucking... fucking anything!
Selina Escalation Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Out of how many? - 44. You were right ahead of James Buchanan, who many feel caused the Civil War.
Selina Kent Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Well, I've always dreamed of living in a small town, having a little place on Main Street, hanging a shingle out front, and running my own little multibillion-dollar hedge fund
Too bad Goebbels killed himself.
Dan Dark/Subversive Character Comedy All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ I stake my reputation on this. Selina Meyer will never be vice president ever, ever again.
Mike Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Pot, kettle.
Tom Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy That's literally the least you can do.
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy I wouldn't be your veep if there were a grassy knoll full of Jodie Foster fans in the front row at your inauguration.
Selina Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch General George Washington could climb out of his grave right now and I would rather eat out his zombified wooden asshole twice a day than be his vice fucking... fucking anything!
Selina Escalation Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Out of how many? - 44. You were right ahead of James Buchanan, who many feel caused the Civil War.
Selina Kent Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Kent, can you give a girl some warning next time before you jam it in the back door?
Selina Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Oh, God. I can't take that much acoustic guitar.
Selina Observational Character Comedy Too bad Goebbels killed himself.
Dan Dark/Subversive Character Comedy The only president to pee sitting down since FDR.
Ben Dark/Subversive Observational Well, I pee sitting down sometimes if it's gonna be a longy.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Wherever they have prostitutes. These guys could help you.
Selina Character Comedy Observational No, New Hampshire is just a fancy word for 'it's cold outside, so I don't shave my pubes.'
Jonah Observational Character Comedy It's really more of a copresident position. Wouldn't you agree with that, Ben? - Sure.
Oh, right, no touchy the ladies. Oh, no, no. It's fine. It's private. Just don't let the lunatics back home know.
You have decided to throw away every last shred of dignity you have and accept my offer of the vice presidency. - I... I guess so, yeah.
Tom Selina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch It's like a shitty Groundhog Day.
Selina Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Sir, by any objective standards, Colt, Brady, and Mason are unequivocally hot, not not.
Richard Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Hot interns means girls. How the fuck do you not know that?
Jonah Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort I want you guys to get used to two things... killing it daily on the Hill and nights rated PG-squirteen.
Jonah Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy But feel free to follow along on the television or perhaps on one of the many bugs that you've planted throughout the White House
Selina Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Come on, you page-diddling Hawaiian fat fuck.
Ben Character Comedy Escalation Thank you, Summerlin, you senile old piss sponge.
Tom Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Now you know what it feels like.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Gary's entire meltdown: 'That magnificent woman counted on you and you losers let her down... All you fucking cared about was your stupid, bad selves... I did my job! I fucking cared!'
Gary Character Comedy Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Your numbers are garbage. Your speeches, garbage.
Gary Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Well, that just kind of made this whole year worth it.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Yeah, she seems really, really large for a baby. - I was a tall kid when I was three.
So what's the reason now, then?
Selina Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Mine takes place in an alternate timeline where overweight, alcoholic ex-chiefs of staff are considered a sexual prize.
Mine takes place in an alternate timeline where overweight, alcoholic ex-chiefs of staff are considered a sexual prize
Alternate timelines are a crutch for lazy sci-fi premises, e.g., 'Star Trek' with the exception of 'Deep Space Nine.'
Kent Character Comedy Observational MSNBC has just learned that President-Elect Montez plans to nominate Wall Street banker Charlie Baird... President Meyer dated the banker briefly late last year.
I don't even remember how to drive.
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort I don't even remember how to drive. I need a wallet. And stamps. I've got to get stamps
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort And then it turned out to be the 12 loneliest months of my life.
Selina Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Maybe my auntie was actually my real mother and my mother was actually my grandmother. Ah, wow, that's starting to make a whole lot of sense. Everybody knew about it but me, too.
Oh, my God, I hope I didn't fuck Richard.
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Do you realize the whole goddamn Rayburn House Office Building can hear you and your twink army in here cock scraping each other's esophagi?
Will Character Comedy Escalation You look like Clark Kent if they dug up Christopher Reeve's corpse to play the part.
Will Dark/Subversive Character Comedy And as for you ladies, this is DC, not Miami.
Will Character Comedy Observational My fucking nuts!
Colt Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Mike, she has the head circumference of a six-year-old. - I'm six.
Kent Ellen Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Callback Girls will cost you later. Mm, girls are the worst
And where exactly in Ohio are you from, Laura?
Selina Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Your head is so far up Montez's ass. Next time it's Alejandro's birthday, he's gonna come all over your face.
Selina Character Comedy Escalation Dark/Subversive You're not gonna believe this, but she just freed the lamas.
You're not gonna believe this, but she just freed the lamas
I had no idea her tits were that big.
Tom Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Well, I've always dreamed of living in a small town, having a little place on Main Street, hanging a shingle out front, and running my own little multibillion-dollar hedge fund.
Tom Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Well, I've always dreamed of living in a small town, having a little place on Main Street, hanging a shingle out front, and running my own little multibillion-dollar hedge fund
Or winning presidential elections. - Well, that's not true. - Yeah, it is.
What am I walking on? - Grass, ma'am.
but you have a lump on your left testicle. I just want to biopsy it and we can take it from there. - Take what from where?
I'm married. I have the ring hiding under the gloves. No, I saw it. No. Oh
Selina, good news. We found the missing Nevada ballots. You won.
Kent Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch