Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus and John Legend lead the celebrities at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

There will be a Veep for the veep, as well as an assortment of other celebrities traveling to Chicago to support Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention, which starts Monday. 

Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus is among the Hollywood types coming to town - for a convention that is expected to be more star-studded than the Republicans' gathering in Milwaukee last month that attracted Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan. 

Convention planners announced that they plan to roll out a 'blue carpet' for notable attendees, with events being headlined by John Legend and Octavia Spencer, and Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling, Tony Goldwyn and Ana Navarro tapped as official hosts of the DNC. 

The Creative Coalition, an arts advocacy group that has sent a delegation of actors and actresses to every political convention since 1996, is sending its biggest group yet to Chicago. 

Harris' ascendance to the Democratic nomination has 'absolutely' increased interest in this year's convention, Creative Coalition CEO Robin Bronk told DailyMail.com. 'Where we had a smaller delegation, it's grown to our biggest delegation in history,' Bronk said. 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus was among the stars to appear at President Joe Biden's 2020 convention that was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She'll moderate a panel discussion with female Democratic governors at the 2024 DNC

Kerry Washington (left) and Mindy Kaling (right), photographed with President Joe Biden, have been tapped as hosts for the Democratic National Convention. Kaling will host Wednesday night annd Washington will host Thursday

Creative Coalition President Tim Daly - of Wings and Madam Secretary fame - will be joined by Busy Philipps, Jon Cryer, Richard Kind, Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Orange is the New Black's Uzo Aduba, Black Panther's Danai Gurira, Abbott Elementary's Sheryl Lee Ralph, How to Get Away with Murder's Yolonda Ross, The Bear's Chris Witaske and Young Sheldon's Iain Armitage. 

Yvette Nicole Brown, of A Black Lady Sketch Show, will also be part of the Creative Coalition's delegation alongside fellow funny people Anthony Anderson and David Cross. 

The group is participating in a number of events but notably a Wednesday night concert hosted by Spencer, the Hidden Figures actress who introduced Harris at a fundraiser in June. 

The headliner will be Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, with two opening acts from swing states: Georgia's Drive-By Truckers and Wisconsin's SistaStrings. 

The Creative Coalition event is sponsored by Giffords, former Rep. Gabby Giffords' gun control group and the party will be co-hosted by Giffords and her husband, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, who was on Harris' VP shortlist.  

Legend - who's a fixture in Washington and a frequent guest at the White House Correspondents' Dinner - has been tapped to be the entertainment at a Tuesday night party hosted by Illinois' billionaire Gov. J.B. Pritzker. 

On Thursday, Common - another D.C. mainstay - will be on hand at an event for Voto Latino, joined by the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache, Cuban artist Cimafunk and DJ SONI withanEYE.

The Creative Coalition is bringing its biggest delegation yet. The group will include Black Panther and The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira (left) and Orange is the New Black's Uzo Aduba (right) 

Busy Philipps, photographed at a Planned Parenthood Of Greater New York Gala in April, is among the actresses coming to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention as part of the Creative Coalition's delegation 

There's another Thursday night party in the works too - at a venue that's co-owned by Chance the Rapper, Jennifer Hudson and Quincy Jones. 

Organizers wouldn't tell The New York Times who would be performing at that show, but Chance the Rapper will be in town, as he's the musical guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday. 

Colbert's Late Show and The Daily Show will both be filming on the sidelines of the DNC - potentially reuniting Colbert with his Comedy Central pal Jon Stewart, who is hosting Thursday night's Daily Show production. 

Ahead of the week, several of The Daily Show's correspondents helped PAWS Chicago promote animal rescue outside of Sunday's Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field. 

Jordan Klepper, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta, Ronny Chieng and Troy Iwata posed with adoptable dogs and fans at the event, which was dubbed 'InDogCision' 2024. 

'Every comedian should have a dog,' Kosta told DailyMail.com, sporting a shirt adorned with his rescue pup Walter's face. 'People might not laugh at my jokes, but my dog thinks I'm f***ing awesome.'  

The correspondents of The Daily Show were already out on the town Sunday in Chicago, helping dogs from PAWS Chicago get adopted at the Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Michael Kosta showed off his shirt adorned with his rescue pup Walter's face

Da Vince the puppy poses in front of a White House dog house at an event sponsored by The Daily Show and PAWS Chicago at the Chicago Cubs game Sunday. Both The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert's Late Show are taping on the sidelines of the DNC this week 

A number of celebrities at the convention will be part of panel discussions.  

Sophia Bush, who came out as queer in April, will speak alongside other LGBTQ leaders at an event sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign on Monday. 

Louis-Dreyfus - who hosted President Joe Biden's mostly-virtual 2020 convention amid the COVID-19 pandemic - will moderate a discussion with every female Democratic governor on Wednesday.

The same day, actress Connie Britton - the former roommate of Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand - will be in conversation with the Tennessee's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Gloria Johnson, who became recognized nationally after she was nearly expelled from the state House over participating in a gun control protest last year. 

Other Democratic mainstays will miss the convention. 

West Wing star Martin Sheen, who visited President Joe Biden at the White House alongside co-stars Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack on Thursday, told DailyMail.com that it was unlikely he would head to Chicago. 

'I don't think it's likely but I'm available,' Sheen said. 

He did say he planned to hit the campaign trail for Harris. 

'You bet, yeah,' he said. 

Fitzgerald and McCormack - who are doing press for their new West Wing-themed book - are also not expected to attend the DNC, Fitzgerald told DailyMail.com.

Actress Alyssa Milano - another celebrity very involved in Democratic causes - isn't coming to Chicago, her spokesperson said, because she's in the Broadway production of Chicago. 

Jeff Bridges' spokesperson also said he's not expected to attend.  

Bridges recently popped up on a 'White Dudes for Harris' fundraising call and has attended previous political conventions as part of his role as spokesperson for the non-profit No Kid Hungry. 

There could also still be surprises. 

There's a MoveOn petition - signed by more than 30,000 people - to encourage Taylor Swift and Beyonce to officially endorse Harris. 

Swift backed the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020, however did so just weeks before Election Day. 

She has concerts scheduled the Monday and Tuesday of the convention at Wembley Stadium in the United Kingdom. 

Beyonce allowed Harris to use her song Freedom in campaign ads, with DailyMail.com reporting earlier this month that the star planned to appear at a Harris fundraiser. 

But as for a convention appearance - that's only been a rumor.