Richard Splett

Richard Splett drifts into the vice president's orbit as a low-level staffer nobody quite remembers hiring, cheerfully unbothered by his own unimportance. He is eager, guileless, and strangely at peace with humiliation, offering earnest trivia and genuine kindness in a building built on contempt. He wants only to be useful and liked.

Veep runs on cruelty and ambition, so Richard's total absence of guile becomes the show's funniest anomaly — a man too sincere to realize he's surrounded by predators. Sam Richardson plays him with unshakeable, sunny calm, never winking at the joke, which makes his obliviousness feel like real innocence rather than a bit.