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Jordyn L. Ceppa

First Posted: 4/12/2013 WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Watch out, Joe Biden. The other vice president is in the house.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays Vice President Selina Meyer on the HBO comedy &#8220;Veep,&#8221; came to the White House on Friday to have lunch with Biden.
While in the West Wing, Louis-Dreyfus took the opportunity to try out the vice president&#8217;s desk &#8212; the real one, not the replica she uses on the set.
&#8220;I surprised him by sitting at his desk, so he thought he&#8217;d just ask my advice on various briefs he had to deal with,&#8221; Louis-Dreyfus said in an audio clip posted to the White House website. &#8220;I was happy to give him my advice, which he paid no attention to whatsoever.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a day I&#8217;ll never forget,&#8221; she added.
Her performance as an ambitious but largely powerless No. 2 hasn&#8217;t gone unnoticed by Biden.
After the former &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; star won an Emmy award for her performance in the first season of &#8220;Veep,&#8221; Biden called her to offer his congratulations, the vice president&#8217;s office said.
And in 2008, when then-Sen. Biden and President Barack Obama were running for office, Biden and Louis-Dreyfus appeared together on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Ellen DeGeneres Show,&#8221; where Biden plunged the actress into the pool of a dunk tank to raise money for breast cancer. The two then shared a soggy smooch through the bars of the dunk tank.
The second season of &#8220;Veep&#8221; starts Sunday.

Biden lunches with ‘Veep’ star Julia Louis-Dreyfus