Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci Giovanni OBE ( born November 28, 1963 in Glasgow ) is a British comedian, director and producer. He was known primarily for several TV productions with the fictional Moderator Alan Partridge and as the inventor of the political satire The Thick Of it.

Life

Iannucci is the son of an Italian father and a Scottish mother. He grew up in Glasgow, where he went to school, and then studied English literature at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford.

In the nineties, he began with the production of comedy shows for the radio stations of the BBC. He landed his first major success with the parody news program On The Hour, which was adapted as The Day Today for television by the BBC. Here he has worked with some actors and writers who were counted in the sequence to the New Wave of British comedy and also work in later years repeatedly with Iannucci, such as Chris Morris, Steve Coogan or Stewart Lee.

In On The Hour also appeared for the first time on the character of Alan Partridge, an incompetent and always overmatched sports reporter, played by Steve Coogan. Partridge quickly became so popular that Iannucci let him appear in several independent productions, as for example in the talk show parody Knowing Me Knowing You (1994 /95) and in the mockumentary series I'm Alan Partridge (1997 and 2002), which was several times with the BAFTA Award, the highest award in the British film and television industry, excellent.

In addition, Iannucci produced more comedy formats, in which he sometimes also occurred yourself, such as The Saturday Night Armistice and Time Trumpet for the BBC and The Armando Iannucci Shows for Channel 4 In many of these series, he also made ​​use of the mockumentary format, which is almost all of his productions have become an essential style element. He also wrote regular columns for the weekly newspaper, The Observer.

2005 Iannucci began work on a political sitcom Yes Minister which should be based on the model of the successful series. The Thick Of It result was, a satirical comedy series about the manipulation joyful government spokesman Malcolm Tucker ( played by Peter Capaldi ). The series was a huge success with critics and the public and also won several awards. Three seasons and two feature-length films have been broadcast by the BBC, a new season is in the works.

2009 was the movie In The Loop (German cabinet out of control ), which is similar in form and content to The Thick Of It, and in which the character of Malcolm Tucker also plays a major role. The film was despite a small budget to a box-office success in the UK and was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar.

2011 commissioned by the American pay-TV network HBO Iannucci with the production of a comedy series based on the model of The Thick Of It for the American market. The result was a series Veep - The Vice-President with Julia Louis -Dreyfus in the lead role as incompetent U.S. Vice President. The first season ran in the spring of 2012 and met with a positive response. Previously ran for two seasons; a third is in production.

2012 Iannucci was honored for his services to the British broadcasting system with the Order of the British Empire. He is also working on his first novel, Tongue International.

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