Comedic actress/genius Julia Louis-Dreyfus is on the quilt of the newest version of Rolling Stone, and the entrance web page includes a historic gaffe worthy of the bone-headed vice chairman character she performs on HBO’s “Veep.”
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A nude photograph of the previous “Seinfeld” star sporting solely the textual content of the Structure is bound to pique the curiosity of newsstand passersby, however here is the factor:
John Hancock, whose fats signature lies simply above Louis-Dreyfus’ left buttocks, signed the Declaration of Independence, not the Structure.
If nothing else, the error has definitely drawn loads of consideration to Rolling Stone, Louis-Dreyfus, and “Veep,” which aired its third season premiere this previous Sunday. Thus far, it has earned protection in every single place from The Wall Street Journal to E! Online, and has been the topic of a whole host of social media chatter.
Dreyfus took to Twitter to humorously come clean with the gaffe, citing a “drunken stupor” excuse much like the one Toronto mayor Rob Ford employed to clarify his use of crack cocaine.
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In my protection, “I used to be in a drunken stupor” #crackexcuse http://t.co/Jo0HgFtpho cc: @RollingStone pic.twitter.com/f7SFgCsHBO
– Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) April 8, 2014
Regardless of JLD’s acknowledgment of the error, a spokesperson from Rolling Stone informed us that the publication was not making an attempt to recreate a historic doc with its cowl. The John Hancock signature is as a substitute presupposed to be taken as the start of a joke whose punchline could be discovered contained in the journal.
There, readers will discover a tattoo artist sporting a white wig and different colonial garb whereas inking his title into Dreyfus’ decrease again. The joke, the spokesperson defined, is that the tattoo artist’s title is John Hancock.
Though the actual John Hancock didn’t signal the Structure, his Declaration of Independence signature is essentially the most recognizable of any early-U.S. doc signer.
“The Julia Louis-Dreyfus cowl mirrors the farcical tone of HBO’s Veep, and the signature is an Easter egg for followers of the present,” the spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “I feel it is nice that everybody is speaking about our cowl.”
