Armando Iannucci
- 61 years old
- Scottish
- Writer, director, producer and satirist
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Armando Iannucci talks Alan Partridge & Malcolm Tucker
The state of UK politics means there is no need for The Thick of It, and the US political scene is so absurd currently that it would be "beyond sitcom territory" to produce Veep, said the satirist who founded both programmes.
Ellie Price, BBC, 20th October 2017The Death of Stalin is easily the comedy of the year
This delightfully silly movie is an intelligent, hilarious circus crammed full of the finest people cinema has to offer.
James East, The Sun, 20th October 2017The Death of Stalin review
This delicious new dark comedy comes courtesy of renowned political satirist Armando Iannucci (The Thick Of It, Veep).
Matthew Turner, i Newspaper, 19th October 2017Armando Iannucci interview
The Independent sat down with The Thick of It creator to discuss the American President, Brexit, and the utterly hilarious The Death of Stalin.
Jack Shepherd, The Independent, 19th October 2017The Death of Stalin review
Armando Iannucci makes a delicious mockery of Russian history.
Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 19th October 2017How Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with truth
Armando Iannucci's new film is a romp through some of the darkest days of the 20th century. But, asks one historian, is farce really the best way to understand the dictator's murderous regime - or its legacy in Russia today?
Richard Overy, The Guardian, 18th October 2017The Death Of Stalin a dazzling black Russian comedy
Master of political satire Armando Iannucci takes his trademark high-stakes back-stabbing farce east with The Death Of Stalin, a ghoulish black comedy that deftly melds historical fact and bile-drenched fiction.
Damon Smith, The Irish News, 18th October 2017The Death of Stalin - an audacious comedy of horrors
Armando Iannucci's Soviet-era satire is full of grand absurdity and violent dread.
Danny Leigh, The Financial Times, 18th October 2017The Death of Stalin: amusing, though not clever satire
Stalin dies, giving rise to a lot of averted eyes, thinking on one's feet and winging it in the Kremlin, in Armando Iannucci's passable screwball comedy which might aspire to satire but actually isn't so.
Paddy Kehoe, RTE, 18th October 2017The Death of Stalin and the art of screen swearing
How the writers of Veep and 'The Thick of It brought their gift for profanity to Stalinist Russia.
Joseph Walsh, The Financial Times, 17th October 2017