- Former "Veep" Vice President Jonah Ryan said he would run for Speaker of the House.
- After Rep. McCarthy lost his seventh vote, "Veep" showrunner David Mandel shared a letter from Ryan.
After Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy lost his seventh vote for Speaker of the House of the 118th Congress, a new player entered the field.
"Veep" showrunner David Mandel jokingly offered up "Veep" Former Vice President Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) for the job in a tweet posted Thursday, along with a letter from Ryan himself outlining why he would be a great Speaker.
"As a former Congressman and impeached Vice President, I hereby nominate myself to be Speaker of the House," Ryan wrote in his letter.
"The Constitution doesn't actually say that the Speaker must be a member of Congress, so it can be anyone, and since Elon Musk has made it clear that he doesn't want the job, I believe I am the next, logical choice," Ryan said.
Ryan started out as a White House liaison at the beginning of the beloved HBO sitcom, "Veep," and worked his way up to Congressman before becoming President Selina Meyer's (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) running mate in her only successful bid for the nation's highest office. He later got impeached from that position.
Ryan said he is "willing to make whatever concessions anyone wants so I can get this job, no matter how humiliating," adding that he does not "feel shame the way other people do."
Among his achievements that he says make him perfect for this job, Ryan said he's been "speaking all my life." He added that he said his first word — "ball" — at age six.
He also said he had COVID "27 times," "will not wear a mask," and wears a "fly white suit like Deion Sanders and Nancy Pelosi."
He added that if "Prince William ever came at me, I would knock him on his ass."
Under Ryan as Speaker, he said the Rules Committee would only have one rule: "there are no rules," and that "any member can call a snap vote on the Speaker if they can beat me at Madden '23." Ryan then called playing the Rams in the video game.
Ryan even added what his first mission as Speaker would be: "We must raise the debt ceiling along with all the other ceilings in Federal office buildings," he said. "They are too low, and I am sick of hitting my head." Simons, who played Ryan, is notably 6-feet 4-inches tall.
He said that the House's failure to so far elect a new Speaker after Rep. Nancy Pelosi stepped down has left "our government — and our country — mired in disarray."
"What the House is doing now is not working," Ryan insisted. "The time has coming for something bold..."