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Armando Iannucci

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

August 2022

  • Oliver Coleman, Australian comedian

    The funniest things on the internet
    Oliver Coleman: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    In between performances at Edinburgh Fringe, the Australian comedian has assembled a list of fun clips, including the Armando Iannucci Shows and a parody of Vogue’s 73 Questions

April 2022

  • Boris Johnson with his sister, Rachel, in 1985 while at Oxford, attending Viscount Althorp’s 21st birthday party.

    The long read
    ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class

    At the Oxford university debating society in the 80s, a generation of aspiring politicians honed the art of winning using jokes, rather than facts

February 2022

  • Armando Iannucci.

    The reader interview
    Armando Iannucci: ‘Everything since 2016 has been a wind-up’

  • Armando Iannucci.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Armando Iannucci

January 2022

  • Gary Lineker, Armando Iannucci, Michael Rosen and Nish Kumar.

    TV and radio stars rally behind BBC over plans to scrap licence fee

    Critics include Armando Iannucci, who says public support for the broadcaster has been underestimated

September 2021

  • Armando Iannucci

    Armando Iannucci’s epic Covid poem: ‘It’s my emotional response to the past 18 months’

  • TIME TRUMPET WITH ARMANDO IANNUCCI<br>Picture shows: Actors playing potential business men showing their ideas in spoof of Dragon’s Den Warning: Use of this copyright image is subject to Terms of Use of BBC Digital Picture Service. In particular, this image may only be used during the publicity period for the purpose of publicising TIME TRUMPET and provided the BBC is credited. Any use of this image on the internet or for any other purpose whatsoever, including advertising or other commercial uses, requires the prior written approval of the BBC.

    Time Trumpet: the savage cult comedy that ‘predicted’ the future

August 2021

  • Parks and Recreation

    10 of the best ...
    From Shonda Rhimes to Armando Iannucci: 10 of the best TV showrunners

  • ‘This is the news. Happy now?’ Chris Morris on The Day Today.

    The Day Today: prophetic parody that’s still funny in the fake news era

July 2021

  • Georgia Pritchett

    Books interview
    Georgia Pritchett: ‘My male equivalents on Veep and Succession all got their own shows’

    She has written for Veep, Succession and The Thick of It, but as Pritchett’s comic, self-deprecating memoir comes out, she talks about industry sexism and why she loves working in the US. Plus read an exclusive extract from her memoir

May 2021

  • Armando Iannucci

    Armando Iannucci leads criticism of secrecy over BBC’s future

    The Thick of It creator seeks meeting with culture secretary to discuss ‘drip feed of sinister headlines’

March 2021

  • ‘I am overwhelmed by how my career has gone’ … Rosalind Eleazar.

    Spotlight on
    Rosalind Eleazar: a star devoted to the exhilarating thrill of theatre

    After drama school, the actor feared she’d made a terrible mistake until she had a run of acclaimed roles on stage, TV and in the hit film version of David Copperfield
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