Veep season 6 trailer teases a second beginning

While ‘Veep’ has never given us a reason to doubt its credentials, the end of its fifth season, and the fact that Selina Meyers was no longer in the White House, meant that you couldn’t help but ever so slightly question where the sitcom was heading.

Those worries have been instantly nipped in the bud by the first trailer for its upcoming new season, as it proves that Selina Meyer still has a raging desire to prove herself, and that the show has plenty more hilarious avenues to take her down.

WARNING: The below footage features some explicit language that some people might find offensive. Of course, that’s actually par for the course with ‘Veep’. In fact, if it didn’t have such spicy language then we’d be disappointed.

All I needed was 33 seconds to make me start counting the hours, minutes and seconds until ‘Veep’s’ return. At the same time it was an instant reminder that Julia Louis-Dreyfus isn’t just the best comedic actor of the last 25 years, but probably of all time, too. That includes both the small and big screen.

But what did we actually learn from the first trailer for ‘Veep’s’ sixth season? Well, quite a bit actually. While we always knew that Tony Hale’s stupendously loyal Gary Walsh would return (he would have done so even if Selina had died in the final episode and the sixth season took place entirely in her coffin), the teaser confirmed Matt Walsh’s incompetent Mike McLintock and Sam Richardson’s loveable but just as incompetent Richard Splett will once again be aiding Selina, too. We can expect the likes of Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simon), Anna Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) and Kent Davison (Gary Cole) to do so along the way, too.

The clip also showed us that Selina Meyer is intent on starting her second act following her departure from the White House, which will include her travelling across the globe “spreading democracy like patient zero” and constantly reminding the world that she was the first female President, even though it was for the briefest of time. That’s despite the fact that she’s well aware she’s now as “needless” as a man’s nipple.

It already looks superb. But while it has already been confirmed that US audiences will get the sixth season of ‘Veep’ from Sunday April 16, we’re still waiting for new of its UK premiere. The fifth season came just a week after it premiered in the US, so let’s hope it will be with us towards the end of April, or early May at the very latest.