Julia turns night into a Trump roast
Yuks it up with Yang
Channeling her inner Selina Meyer, actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus kicked off the final night of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday with a monologue mocking President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
And the hits just kept on coming as the “Veep” star, acting as the emcee for the finale of the DNC, interspersed digs at the current administration with segments that lavished praised on Joe Biden.
Joined by former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, she got things started with some faux confusion about how to pronounce Pence’s name as the pair praised Biden’s running mate Sen. Kamala Harris.
“I cannot wait to see her [Harris] debate our current vice president, Mica Paentz, or is it Paints?” she said to Yang, taking a shot at those who mispronounce Harris’ first name.
Pence is a “kind of weird foreign name,” she added, with Yang chiming in “not very American sounding.”
“Poontz!” Louis-Dreyfus added in a later segment.
But the actress’ self-satisfied lampooning of Republicans was blasted as off-key as the night’s featured elected Democrats struck a generally somber tone amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Louis-Dreyfus, renowned for her roles as Elaine Benes in “Seinfeld” and the uber-ambitious Vice President Selina Kyle in “Veep,” also pleaded with viewers to text-message a five-digit number.
“That’s the year Donald Trump will finally release his tax returns,” joked the actress, the daughter of a billionaire.
Later touting the same number, she exclaimed, “That would be the president’s golf score if he didn’t cheat!”
Biden, meanwhile, was talked up by his vanquished rivals, by a boy whom the former vice president mentored to help overcome a stutter and by his son Hunter Biden, 50.
Hunter — who hailed his father as “honest” and someone who “will never let you down” — has come under scrutiny for holding a a lucrative position on the board of a Ukrainian energy giant while his father led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.