Has Malcolm Turnbull copied Veep's campaign slogan?

• Continuity and change: Malcolm Turnbull's nod to the foregone but fixed on the future

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been copping it on social media for his use of a "hollow and oxymoronic" slogan made up for satirical political US TV show Veep.

Even Emmy award-winning actress and former Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she's been left "dumbstruck" by Mr Turnbull's use of the phrase "continuity and change", which featured on the spoof HBO series.

The slogan holds a strong resemblance to the one used by Veep's US president Selina Meyer, played by Louis-Dreyfus, while campaigning for re-election.

Mr Turnbull has recently been using it in an attempt to distance his government from that of former prime minister Tony Abbott.

"I am dumbstruck @VeepHBO," Louis-Dreyfus wrote on her Twitter account after sharing a Buzzfeed article about Turnbull's use of the "meaningless line".

Writer of the US TV series Simon Blackwell accused the prime minister of copying the slogan used in season four of the show.

In S4 of Veep we came up with the most meaningless election slogan we could think of. Now adopted by Australian PM. https://t.co/64YmQvImj5

— Simon Blackwell (@simonblackwell) March 22, 2016

Blackwell told The Guardian Australia he came up with the slogan following a request from the series' art director, Jim Gloster, for one to be placed on the side of Meyer's campaign bus.

"We needed it to be hollow and oxymoronic, to say absolutely nothing but seem to have depth and meaning," he said.

"It couldn't be too daft though, it had to be funny but still believable.

"It did make me laugh a lot when I saw that the Australian PM's people had been on the same mental journey and come up with the same meaningless phrase."

The revelation has taken social media by storm, with many poking fun at Mr Turnbull since the comparisons were canvassed by local media outlets, including Fairfax, on Tuesday.

"#Veep I apologise for our Prime Minister. If it helps, we didn't actually vote him in, his peers did..." Celeste Liddle tweeted.

"Why the Coalition stole from #VEEP... ? because they KNOW their supporters don't watch such CLEVER SHOWS..." another said.

It isn't the first time comparisons have been drawn between Turnbull and US TV dramas.

Mr Turnbull caught the attention of House of Cards' Frank Underwood for the second time, after the PM boldly declared on Twitter that "the time for game playing is over".

Last year, the Prime Minister caught the attention of Netflix after admitting that he had nothing in common with Underwood other than using a rowing machine.

The show's official Twitter account was quick to reply.

AAP