Marjorie Palmiotti

Marjorie Palmiotti drifts into Jonah Ryan's orbit as a congressional staffer whose flat, unbothered calm makes her an odd fit for his blustering chaos. She says little, reacts to almost nothing, and seems entirely unfazed by Jonah's ego and idiocy, which is precisely what draws him to her.

Veep runs on shouting and flop-sweat panic, so Marjorie's stillness is its own joke — Clea DuVall plays her with such deadpan minimalism that every blank stare becomes a punchline about how little this world actually rattles her. She's funny by subtraction, a quiet island the show's noise crashes against.