Armando Iannucci

Oct 22, 2024 | avclub.com | Armando Iannucci

“I’m a trained actor reduced to the status of a bum!” cries Richard E. Grant’s Withnail early on in Withnail And I, delivering the line as if he’s Olivier at the Old Vic while he’s, in actuality, surrounded by the squalor of his Camden flat (and shirtless and slathered in lotion in a feeble attempt to keep warm), looking equally hungover and drug crazed and like he hasn’t slept days, and addressing or, better yet, performing for his roommate/drinking buddy, the “I” from the film’s title.

Oct 5, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Armando Iannucci

Steve Coogan as Dr Strangelove Sebastian Nevols It was the quickest “Yes!” I’ve ever given, though I’m told by those involved it was the longest one they’d ever waited for. I had a brief lunch break in the middle of a busy film shoot, and decided to respond to the latest text from director Sean Foley. He’d been asking if I could call him about “something”. Because I was distracted, and an idiot, I’d failed to see the allure of that “something”, and had been doing so for about six months. Now...

Jul 29, 2024 | smh.com.au | Armando Iannucci

As soon as President Biden dropped out of the race, leaving his vice president to take on the candidacy, a pile-on of news organisations tracked me down to ask for comment. They weren't after any insights on Kamala Harris's campaign (I have none) but instead wanted to know how I felt now that events were tracking the main story line of my HBO show Veep. The show stars the unbeatable Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Vice President Selina Meyer.

Jul 26, 2024 | nytimes.com | Armando Iannucci

As soon as President Biden dropped out of the race, leaving his vice president to take on the candidacy, a pile-on of news organizations tracked me down to ask for comment. They weren't after any insights on Kamala Harris's campaign (I have none) but instead wanted to know how I felt now that events were tracking the main story line of my HBO show "Veep."The show stars the unbeatable Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Vice President Selina Meyer.

Jun 13, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Armando Iannucci

Is this the Black Hole election? This week, we’re certainly in the Black Hole part of it, when parties publish their manifestos and talk about the gaping holes in their opponents’ spending plans. But ‘Black Hole’ also feels the right way to label the entire campaign, using the phrase not as a metaphor for financial mismanagement but in its more familiar sense, that of a super-dense singularity from which no light escapes.