Julia Louis-Dreyfus Revived Selina Meyer From ‘VEEP’ To Masterfully Roast Stephen Colbert

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As Stephen Colbert‘s show winds down with his final night hosting The Late Show With Stephen Colbert taking place next Thursday (May 21st), he is bringing out the true A-List guests. This week, he had Julia Louis-Dreyfus on who flipped the script on Stephen Colbert.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is obviously best known for Seinfeld as Elaine which is where she got her big break in acting but as the lead on HBO’s VEEP she really had a chance to shine. As a guest on Colbert’s show, she enlisted former VEEP writers to script jokes to roast Stephen.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Clinically Roasts Stephen Colbert As Selina Meyer From ‘VEEP’

The roast came toward the end of her appearance on the show. Julia Louis-Dreyfus turned to Stephen Colbert and told him she’d enlisted former VEEP writers for the task then ripped into him mercilessly.

Were some of these jokes too personal? Of course not. It’s a roast. That’s how roasts work. Colbert is a professional comedian, he gets it… Check it out:

That clip is also up on TikTok if you would prefer that over YouTube. I try to include everyone’s preferred medium to watch since I know we all have individual preferences and the UX is vastly different across devices:

“Don’t be too hard on yourself, you’re as relevant as the Bill of Rights” is 1,000% a joke Selina Meyer would have broken out at the White House Correspondents Dinner. I was skeptical that she actually used former VEEP writers until that one because that is the ultimate Selina Meyer-coded joke.

Upon watching the clip for a second time, I couldn’t help but notice Stephen Colbert laughed extra hard at Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ joke about ‘hospice.’ What do we think it was about that one that really struck his funny bone?

As mentioned above, Stephen Colbert’s final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will air next Thursday, May 21st. Tune in and/or set your DVR for the end of an era.