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Louis-Dreyfus no second banana in HBO’s ‘Veep’

By Sarah Rodman

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 19, 2012

Fictional television politicians tend to fall into two categories: noble or nefarious. The former category includes President Jed Bartlett (Martin Sheen) of “The West Wing” and a recent example of the latter, Kelsey Grammer’s Mayor Tom Kane, will be chewing his way through the Chicago skyline in season two of the Starz drama “Boss” in August. What you rarely see, and what makes HBO’s new series “Veep,” premiering Sunday at 10 p.m., such a treat, are politicians as regular people.

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