HBO has confirmed that Veep will return for a sixth season on 16 April at 10:30pm, fresh from picking up DGA and SAG Awards.

Its renewal was a certainty given the consistency of the show, but what’s less clear is how it will continue to strike a chord with viewers and function as a satire at a time when the real world political landscape is even more ridiculous.

Trump’s election poses issues for a number of scripted political shows (including the also soon to return House of Cards) who would probably have been criticised if they introduced a character as over the top and extreme as Donald Trump.

Cast member Timothy Simons (Jonah Ryan) has a pretty sobering answer to this though, telling IBT: “Day to day, I haven’t found a lot of stuff [that Trump has done] funny.”

Showrunner David Mandel meanwhile, explained to Decider how parodying specific people and events will never work for the show as its scripts are written nearly a year prior to broadcast. That doesn’t mean the writers aren’t watching what’s happening very closely though.

“What seems like a very important story right now may be an unimportant story in three weeks when he, I don’t know, whatever he does next,” Mandel said.