Armando Iannucci
- 61 years old
- Scottish
- Writer, director, producer and satirist
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Scottish Comedy Awards 2018 winners announced
The winners of the Scottish Comedy Awards 2018 have been announced. Those accepting prizes include Frankie Boyle, Des Clarke, Ray Bradshaw and Mark Nelson.
British Comedy Guide, 1st August 2018Filming starts on The Personal History Of David Copperfield
Filming has begun on The Personal History Of David Copperfield, the new film directed by Armando Iannucci. Stars include Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw and Paul Whitehouse.
British Comedy Guide, 11th June 2018Scottish Comedy Awards 2018 nominations
The nominations for the Scottish Comedy Awards 2018 have been announced. Various stand-up comedians, TV shows and radio programmes are shortlisted.
British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2018Armando Iannucci on Barnaby Joyce: It's been hilarious
The satirist behind Veep and The Thick of It takes aim at Australian politics ahead of the premiere of his new film, The Death of Stalin.
Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian, 6th March 2018Armando Iannucci interview
Armando Iannucci on why he's finding it hard to maintain his sense of humour.
Chr York, The Huffington Post, 3rd March 2018Armando Iannucci on Brexit, Trump & The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci, Britain's satirist-in-chief, talks to Nick Mitchell about the similarities between Stalinist Russia and Trump's America, his new Dickens-inspired project, and the return of Alan Partridge.
Nick Mitchell, i Newspaper, 22nd February 2018Download: The Death of Stalin review
Armando Iannucci assembles a dream team for a nightmarish orgy of power-grabbing and back-stabbing.
Raphael Abraham, The Financial Times, 16th February 2018Russia's Death of Stalin ban unprecedented since USSR
On Tuesday, the Russian ministry of culture made a dramatic last-minute decision to withdraw the screening licence of Armando Iannucci's dark satire. That decision - the first ever of its kind in post-Soviet Russia - has raised fears about the return of censorship and the further rehabilitation of one of history's tyrants.
Oliver Carroll, The Independent, 25th January 2018Paddington 2 & Death Of Stalin receive BAFTA nominations
Paddington 2 and The Death Of Stalin have been nominated for two awards each at the BAFTA Film Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2018There were many frissons of delight in this documentary looking back at Partridge's legacy, not least the realisation that the humour has aged not one bit. It is the humour of desperation, awkwardness and of a sublime lack of self-knowledge: and Coogan does it even better than Cleese, and has done ever since (as we find out here, with so many sharp talking heads) he paused an early radio recording to nip off to Lilywhites and re-emerged in the studio emblazoned with Pringle's finest sports-casual. In that moment Partridge was born.
I suspect we need him now even more than then, as a Greek chorus to our desperately febrile times, and a reminder that we will not - do not deserve to - survive without the ability to laugh at and with ourselves.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 2nd January 2018