Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci
Armando Giovanni Iannucci, OBEis a Scottish satirist, writer, television director and radio producer. Born in Glasgow, he studied at Oxford University and left graduate work on a PhD about John Milton to pursue a career in comedy...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth28 November 1963
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The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
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The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.
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Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.
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I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave.
easy pieces
I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
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Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.
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The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
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I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.
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I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
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I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.
I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.
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Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.