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Tony Hale recalls Julia Louis-Dreyfus recruiting him for unforgettable Emmys speech: 'Game on'

Tony Hale shares how he helped 'Veep' costar Julia Louis-Dreyfus deliver one of the best speeches in Emmys history when she won in 2013: 'I heard her name and I was like, 'Game on.''

With only a slightly artificially inflected "thank you so much" from Louis-Dreyfus, and with Hale nervously darting his eyes behind his costar, clutching her bag, the two immediately conveyed to the audience that this wouldn't be a conventional acceptance speech. The camera then cut to cast member Anna Chlumsky indifferently texting through the speech, in full character as Veep's Amy Brookheimer. Hale took home two of his own Emmys for playing Gary Walsh, the bagman and self-described "lap dog" to Louis-Dreyfus' Selina Meyer.

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