Armando Iannucci
- 60 years old
- Scottish
- Writer, director, producer and satirist
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BBC Comedy Festival 2024 sessions now available to book
The BBC Comedy Festival 2024 will be in Glasgow on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd May, with speakers set to include Armando Iannucci, Jennifer Saunders and Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith. Free tickets to the sessions can be booked now.
British Comedy Guide, 8th April 2024Armando Iannucci says level of child poverty "like Dickens novel"
Creator of the TV series The Thick Of It attacked government policy as he appeared on Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show.
Sian Bradley and Charlotte McLaughlin, The Times, 24th March 2024Armando Iannucci on The Day Today, 30 years later
To celebrate the big birthday, we spoke to the cult show's creator about its unlikely success.
Tom Nicholson, Esquire, 19th January 2024An open letter to Armando Iannucci by Graham Linehan
Graham Linehan asks why Britain's most-celebrated satirist has turned a blind eye to woke authoritarianism.
Graham Linehan, Spiked, 10th January 2024Pandemonium review
Anyone seeing Armando Iannucci credited as the writer of Pandemonium might expect a satire with the brutality of The Thick Of It or the classy bite of Veep. Think again.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th December 2023Pandemonium review
Patrick Marber's staging of Armando Iannucci's new satire runs until 6 January.
Sarah Crompton, What's On Stage, 12th December 2023Pandemonium review
Caustic, vital theatre: little wonder the run is sold out.
John Cutler, The Reviews Hub, 12th December 2023Pandemonium review
Boris' pandemic problem goes Shakespearean.
Liam O'Dell, Liam O'Dell, 12th December 2023Pandemonium review
The show is little more than a knockabout end-of-year school entertainment, that strangely has no satiric teeth beyond making up playground names for public figures. It offers no insight into their behaviour beyond stupidity, lacks any kind of context for the horror that enveloped the UK and, despite the lively, fluent performance of a fine cast, feels overlong at ninety minutes running time.
Keith Mckenna, British Theatre Guide, 12th December 2023Pandemonium review
Satire needs a shot of Pfizer's finest to revive tired storylines.
Gary Naylor, The Arts Desk, 12th December 2023