Veep (2012)

Insults as an art form. Selina Meyer's staff trade put-downs so fast and so elaborately that one season-long count of jokes per minute called it the show that crammed in more jokes per half hour than anything else on television at the time. Armando Iannucci brought over the verbal savagery of The Thick of It and gave it a Washington setting. Julia Louis-Dreyfus won six Emmys in a row for lead actress in a comedy for the role, an Emmy record. Expect cruelty rather than warmth: almost nobody here is likable, and the show is funnier for it.