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'Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus wins again as Emmys gets political

(Agencies) Updated: 2016-09-19 09:22 Comments

'Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus wins again as Emmys gets political

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus from the HBO series "Veep" arrives at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California US, September 18, 2016. [Photo provided to China Daily]

"Veep" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her fifth straight Emmy for her role in the satirical White House comedy in which she plays a graspingly ambitious and inept president battling to stay in power.

Louis-Dreyfus apologized for what she called "the current political climate," seven weeks before the presidential election.

"I think that 'Veep' has torn down the wall between comedy and politics. Our show started out as a political satire but it now feels like a sobering documentary," she quipped, in an oblique reference to the presidential campaign.

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