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Armando Iannucci

September 2025

  • a man in a suit stands next to a red curtain

    Veep creator Armando Iannucci struggling to fund Trump project due to scared buyers

    Iannucci has been trying to start project involving Trump speeches but has been told to expect retribution

May 2025

  • Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It.

    ‘I’m from Glasgow – the swearing came naturally!’ The full uncensored history of The Thick of It

    It was the political satire that gave us omnishambles, pet asbos and the terrifying Malcolm Tucker. Two decades on, creator Armando Iannucci and stars including Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front lift the lid on its chaotic creation

March 2025

  • Armando Iannucci.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Armando Iannucci opens up about what changed his life: best podcasts of the week

    The Thick of It creator tells all in a revealing new podcast from actor Rebecca Front. Plus, a smash-hit history show launches a juicy spinoff

November 2024

  • Giles Terera (Turgidson), Steve Coogan (President Muffley), Tony Jayawardena (Bakov), Mark Hadfield (Faceman) and Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Jefferson) in Dr Strangelove.

    The week in theatre: Dr Strangelove; Barcelona; Quiet Songs – review

    In a week of underused talent, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley merely recreate Kubrick’s satire; Lily Collins totters through a bland night in Spain; and Ruth Negga graces a trance-like hour

October 2024

  • Juggling multiple roles seamlessly … Steve Coogan as President Muffley with Giles Terera as General Turgidson.

    Dr Strangelove review – Steve Coogan scores a quadruple cold war coup

  • (L-r) Jessica Hynes, Isaac Powell, Aya Cash, Himesh Patel, Daniel Brühl and Lolly Adefope in The Franchise.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Franchise; Trump: The Criminal Conspiracy Case; Before; Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band – review

  • ‘The darkest vision’ … Coogan, right, as Group Captain Mandrake, one of four characters he plays.

    ‘The worse the world gets, the better for this play’: Armando Iannucci on staging Dr Strangelove with Steve Coogan

  • The Franchise<br>The Franchise . Discover how the superhero cinematic sausage is made in this hilarious comedy series.

    TV review
    The Franchise review – Armando Iannucci’s superhero satire is saved only by a standout star

  • ‘It’s like Trump – how do you satirise something so ridiculous?’: Armando Iannucci’s hilarious superhero spoof

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Armando Iannucci’s cultural highlights

September 2024

  • Nine people on Zoom wave to the camera.

    Veep cast reunites, with special guests, to raise money for Harris

    Ever-popular political comedy’s team got together for a virtual reunion and table read with help from Larry David and super-fan Stephen Colbert

July 2024

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer in Veep walks with men in suits past people holding signs saying 'Run Selina Run'.

    ‘Selina was not modelled on Harris’: Iannucci on how US presidential race came to mirror Veep

    Writer says cyclical nature of politics allows satire to appear to predict future, including vice-president’s run for top job

June 2024

  • Alan Bates

    Post Office campaigner Alan Bates knighted in king’s birthday honours

    Ex-post office operator recognised for exposing Horizon IT scandal, while Tracey Emin becomes a dame and Gordon Brown a companion of honour

December 2023

  • Samir Shah, who is to replace Richard Sharp as the next chair of the BBC, in London on 13 December 2023.

    The panel
    Troublesome talent and meddling ministers. As BBC chair, Samir Shah, here’s what you’ve got to do

    Armando Iannucci, Jane Martinson, Pat Younge, Marcus Ryder, Sophie Chalk, Patrick Barwise, Peter York and Joe Lycett
  • Amalia Vitale, Faye Castelow, Paul Chahidi, Debra Gillett and Natasha Jayetileke in Pandemonium.

    Pandemonium review – Armando Iannucci’s furiously funny takedown of No 10

September 2023

  • ‘A tale for our time’ … (from left) Sean Foley, Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci are bringing Dr Strangelove to the stage.

    Steve Coogan to star in Armando Iannucci’s Dr Strangelove play

    Coogan will follow in Peter Sellers’ footsteps to play multiple roles in stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical war film

July 2023

  • A scene from Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in which dozens of politicians and generals sit around a large round table

    Armando Iannucci to adapt Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr Strangelove for stage

    The Thick of It creator will collaborate with actor Sean Foley on first authorised adaptation of director’s 1964 apocalyptic comedy

May 2023

  • Ghosts, The Office, This Country and The Thick of It

    ‘I was a tiny cog in a machine of people all named vice-president of something’: the reality of remaking UK sitcoms

    The CBS version of the BBC comedy Ghosts is one of the biggest shows on American TV. But US remakes more often than not go south. Armando Iannucci and other creators share their horror stories

March 2023

  • Daisy May Cooper

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Daisy May Cooper: ‘When I try to be sexy, I look like a psychopath’

    The creator and star of This Country on how growing up in poverty influenced her new role, and why she keeps her Bafta by the door

November 2022

  • Armando Iannucci photographed recently.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Armando Iannucci: ‘I have ADHD, which explains why I can only work to deadlines’

    The satirist on who makes him laugh, Tory attacks on the BBC, and the physics behind his sci-fi sitcom
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