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Billy Kimball

Writer & Emmy Award-Winning Supervising Producer of “Veep”

Billy Kimball is an Emmy award-winning writer and co-executive producer for the hit HBO series “Veep” starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. He has also written nine episodes of “The Simpsons” and wrote the Academy Awards in 2016 and 2017. In 1992, he executive produced more than 40 hours of live coverage of that year’s presidential election for Comedy Central under the rubric “Indecision ’92.”

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Trump Is Bad for Comedy

With Kurt Andersen, Billy Kimball, P.J. O'Rourke, Sara Schaefer

November 1, 2018

From the opening skit on “Saturday Night Live” to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to the pages of The Onion, President Trump has become the face of comedy. Some comedians and writers argue that in the Trump era, satire has become more challenging and jokes have become cheap. Trump, according to his critics, has normalized the absurd and the nature of political satire in a post-truth world. But others disagree; they argue that the president serves up comedy-gold every…

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Trump Is Bad for Comedy

From the opening skit on “Saturday Night Live” to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to the pages of The Onion, President Trump has become the face of comedy. Some comedians and writers argue that…

With Kurt Andersen, Billy Kimball, P.J. O'Rourke, Sara Schaefer

November 1, 2018

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