Yes Minister influenced Veep

Armando Iannucci has named it as the show that made him want to write politics, and the form carried across two countries and thirty years: an elected figure who is nominally in charge and actually powerless, permanent staff who manage them, and an episode built around a small procedural humiliation rather than a policy. What Iannucci added is the swearing and the handheld camera, which is a change of register rather than of subject.