Armando Giovanni Iannucci (born 28 November 1963,
GlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
) is a
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
comedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
,
writerA writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.-Profession:...
,
directorA television director directs the activities involved in making a television episode.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or filmed/taped .In both types of productions, the director is responsible for supervising the placement of cameras ,...
, performer and
radio producerA radio producer oversees the making of a radio show. The producer may organize callers for talk radio, line-up music, organize show content, etc. They are the person primarily responsible for the creation, organization and direction of live radio programming, primarily talk shows and sporting events...
.
Early life
Iannucci's father, Armando (Snr), is from
NaplesNaples in Italy, is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old...
,
ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
, while his mother is from
GlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
,
ScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, where he was also born. His father, who came to Scotland in 1950, ran a pizza factory. Armando has two brothers and a sister. In his teens he had thought seriously about becoming a Roman Catholic priest. Iannucci was educated at St Peter's Primary School,
St. Aloysius' College, GlasgowSt. Aloysius' College is a selective fee-paying independent Jesuit school in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1859, and named after the famous Jesuit, St. Aloysius Gonzaga. Its strong Jesuit ethos emphasises practice of the Roman Catholic faith both in the church and in the community, with...
, the
University of GlasgowThe University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities...
, and
University College, OxfordUniversity College , is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...
, where he read
EnglishEnglish literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S....
gaining an MA in 1986. He abandoned graduate work on 17th-century religious language with particular reference to
MiltonJohn Milton was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost and for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica....
's
Paradise LostParadise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification...
, to pursue his career in broadcasting with particular reference to comedy.
Career
Despite his involvement in many facets of British comedy as a producer, writer and performer, Iannucci has remained relatively unknown amongst the British public. His projects include
Smokehammer, a web-based project with Chris Morris, the short-lived topical satire
Gash, as well as three programmes for
BBC Radio 3BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music, but jazz, world music, drama and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation Artists scheme...
, including
Mobiles Off!, a 20-minute segment on classical concert-going etiquette. As well as television and radio work, he also wrote a book in 1997 entitled
Facts and Fancies, compiling some articles from his newspaper columns, which was turned into a
BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
series. A little-known radio series called
Scraps With Iannucci followed late in 1998, in which Iannucci used his tape-fiddling skills to present a review of the year.
On the Hour
Iannucci has an extensive history in British radio and television. First receiving widespread fame in the early 1990s as the producer for
On the HourOn the Hour was a British radio programme that parodied current affairs broadcasting, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1991 and 1992.Written by Chris Morris, Patrick Marber, Eric Weinstein, Armando Iannucci, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring and David Quantick, it starred...
and then
The Day TodayThe Day Today is a surreal British parody of television news programmes. It is an adaptation of the radio programme On the Hour. The series is composed of six half-hour episodes and a selection of shorter, five-minute slots recorded as promotion trailers for the longer segments. Only six episodes...
, he received critical acclaim for both his own talents as a writer and a producer, and for first bringing together such comics as
Chris MorrisImage:the_it_crowd_denholm.jpg|Chris Morris in The IT CrowdChristopher Morris is an English comedian, writer, director, actor and former radio DJ.Morris began his career in radio before moving into television...
,
Richard HerringRichard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer. He has been described, by the British Theatre Guide, as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy" and by The Guardian as "a reliable Fringe pleasure"...
,
Stewart LeeStewart Graham Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director probably best known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically-acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera. He grew up in the West...
,
Peter BaynhamPeter Baynham is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and a British comedian, writer, and performer. He often collaborates with Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris and has worked with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. He is first heard on Morris' early radio DJ slots, often going out to places...
and
Steve CooganStephen John "Steve" Coogan is an English comedian, actor, writer and producer. His best known character in the United Kingdom is Alan Partridge, the grotesque sports reporter-turned-television chat show host-turned-regional radio presenter who featured in several television series, such as The...
. The members of this group went on to work on separate projects and create a new comedy "wave" pre-New Labour: Morris went on to create
Brass EyeBrass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries. A single series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, with a further special episode in 2001....
,
Blue JamBlue Jam was an ambient radio comedy programme created and directed by Chris Morris. It aired on BBC Radio 1 in the early hours of the morning from 1997 to 1999....
and the
Chris Morris Music Show; Stewart Lee and Richard Herring created
Fist of FunFist of Fun was a popular British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring . A lot of the show's comic material rehashed from Lee and Herring's radio programme Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World.Each episode of Fist of Fun featured several disparate sketches...
and
This Morning with Richard Not JudyThis Morning With Richard Not Judy or TMWRNJ was a British comedy television programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring , made and broadcast by the BBC. Two series were broadcast in 1998 and 1999 on BBC2...
.
Baynham was closely involved with both Morris' and Lee & Herring's work — simultaneously at one point. Lee would go on to co-write the controversial
Jerry Springer — The Opera, but perhaps the most famous "alumnus" of this group is
Steve CooganStephen John "Steve" Coogan is an English comedian, actor, writer and producer. His best known character in the United Kingdom is Alan Partridge, the grotesque sports reporter-turned-television chat show host-turned-regional radio presenter who featured in several television series, such as The...
's character
Alan PartridgeAlan Gordon Partridge is a fictional television and radio presenter portrayed by English comedian Steve Coogan and invented by Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring for the BBC Radio 4 programme On The Hour...
, who first appeared in
On the Hour, and has featured in multiple spin-off series.
The Armando Iannucci Shows
The Armando Iannucci ShowsThe Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of eight programmes directed by Armando Iannucci and written by Iannucci with Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil. It was shown on UK's Channel 4 from September to October 2001...
was an eight-part series for Channel 4 broadcast in 2001. The series consisted of Iannucci pondering pseudo-philosophical and jocular ideas and fantasies.
The Thick of It
More recently, Iannucci devised, directed and was chief writer of
The Thick of ItThe Thick of It is a British comedy television series, which satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2005, and has so far completed six half-hour episodes and two special hour-long episodes to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's...
, a political satire-cum-farce for
BBC FourBBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television viewers in the UK. The part successor to BBC Knowledge. BBC Four launched on 2 March 2002....
. It starred
Chris LanghamChristopher Langham is a BAFTA award-winning British writer, actor and comedian. He is most famous for playing MP Hugh Abbot in BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is...
as an incompetent cabinet minister being manipulated by a cynical Press Officer, played by
Peter CapaldiPeter Capaldi is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award-winning Scottish film director and actor.-Personal life:Peter Capaldi was educated in Glasgow at St Teresa's R C Primary School in Glasgow's Possilpark, St Ninian's High School in Kirkintilloch , and the Glasgow School of Art...
and based on
Tony BlairAnthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
's former Press Secretary
Alastair CampbellAlastair John Campbell served as Director of Communications and Strategy for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2003...
. It was described by critics on
BBC Two
's
Newsnight Review as a modern-day counterpart to
Yes MinisterYes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Sir Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and radio between 1980 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988...
, which Iannucci had championed on the
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
's
Britain's Best SitcomBritain's Best Sitcom was a poll conducted in 2004 by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to identify the United Kingdom's best situation comedy. The winner by over 60,000 votes was Only Fools and Horses....
competition. He has also participated as a
panelistA panelist is a member of a panel. The role a panelist plays depends upon the duties of the panel.A panelist can be a member of a committee or in legal arenas, a jury. In the Westminster system, it can be a member of a Select committee or a Standing committee.On television, panelists participate...
on
Radio 4'sBBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
The News QuizThe News Quiz is a topical comedy quiz broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4.-History:It was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took , and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in...
, having produced the programme earlier in his career.
Time Trumpet
In Summer 2006, his spoof documentary series
Time TrumpetTime Trumpet is a six-episode television comedy series which aired on BBC Two during Summer 2006. The first full show was broadcast on Thursday 3 August 2006 at 10pm; a 10 minute preview had been broadcast two weeks earlier...
was shown on BBC 2. It followed a similar format to his earlier one-off programmes in looking back on past events through highly edited clips and "celebrity" interviews, although this time was looking back on the present and near-future from the year 2031. One notable episode, featuring fictional terrorist attacks on London and the assassination of Tony Blair, was postponed and edited in August 2006 amid the terrorism scares in British airports at that time. Jane Thynne, writing in
The IndependentThe Independent is a British newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National...
, accused the BBC of lacking backbone.
Advertisement director
He has also directed the latest series of
Post OfficePost Office Ltd is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of post office branches.-Structure:Post Office Ltd...
adverts, featuring the actors
John HenshawJohn Henshaw is a British actor famed for his roles as Ken the landlord in Early Doors, Wilf Bradshaw in Born and Bred and PC Roy Bramwell in The Cops. He is sometimes associated with playing "hard men"...
,
Rory JenningsRory Jennings is a British actor. He is best known for his role as Craig Dixon in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders...
and
Di BotcherDi Botcher is a Welsh actress originally from Port Talbot. She is currently appearing in a series of Post Office advertisements in the UK and she is learning the Welsh language in the Big Welsh Challenge TV show along with Rhod Gilbert and Colin Charvis, with Glyn Wise as her mentor...
alongside guest stars such as
Joan CollinsJoan Henrietta Collins OBE is an English actress, author, and columnist.-Early life:Collins was born in Paddington, London, the daughter of Elsa , a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins, an agent whose clients would later include Shirley Bassey, The Beatles and Tom Jones...
,
Bill OddieWilliam Edgar Oddie, OBE is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who first became famous as one of The Goodies....
and
WestlifeWestlife is an Irish boy band formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Brian McFadden...
.
He has appeared on Radio 3 talking about classical music, one of his passions. He recently collaborated with composer
David SawerDavid Sawer is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music. He is a Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music.-Biography:...
on
Skin Deep, an
operettaOperetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Operetta in French:...
, which was premiered by
Opera NorthOpera North is a British opera company. Based in Leeds, England the Company's home theatre is the Leeds Grand Theatre, but it also presents regular seasons in several other cities, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays and the Theatre Royal, Newcastle...
on 16 January 2009.
In the Loop
In January 2009, his first feature film
In the LoopIn the Loop is a feature film directed by Armando Iannucci. It is a spinoff from the BBC TV series The Thick of It satirising Anglo-American politics in the 21st century. The film was released on 17 April 2009 in the United Kingdom....
, in the style of
The Thick of It, was premiered at the
Sundance Film FestivalThe Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the U.S. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as the Sundance Resort, the festival is the premier...
. It is the first cinema film to be directed by Iannucci, after his contribution to
Tube TalesTube Tales is a collection of nine short films based on the true-life experiences of London Underground passengers as submitted to Time Out magazine. The stories were scripted and filmed independently of each other...
in 1999. The film has been applauded by critics, both in Britain and the US.
The film secured the eighth highest placing in the UK box office in its opening week - despite its relatively insignificant screening numbers. According to the British Film Institute
screenonlinescreenonline is a Web site devoted to the history of British film and television, and to social history as revealed by film and television. The project has been developed by the British Film Institute and funded by a £1.2 million grant from the National Lottery New Opportunities Fund.Reviews...
, Iannucci had previously failed to secure funding for a historical comedy film in 2003.
Iannucci used his BBC press pass to enter the US State Department headquarters whilst researching the film, saying how he just turned up and claimed to be "here for the 12.30". Iannucci spent an hour inside taking photographs which were used for the film's set designs.
Recognition
Iannucci has won two Sony Radio Awards and three
British Comedy AwardsThe British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.-History:...
. In 2003, he was listed in
The ObserverThe Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a left-liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-History:The...
as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. He was also subject of a 2006 edition of
The South Bank ShowThe South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show, made by London Weekend Television, presented by Melvyn Bragg, broadcast on ITV and seen in over 60 countries worldwide — including Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA...
.
Academic work
In January 2006 he took the post of
News InternationalNews International Ltd is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc....
Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at the
University of OxfordThe University of Oxford , located in the UK city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back...
, where he has delivered a series of four lectures under the title "British Comedy — Dead Or Alive?", saying in his introduction to the series that "It used to be that you went to Oxford to get into comedy. Now you get into comedy to go to Oxford".
Television
- The Day Today
The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television news programmes. It is an adaptation of the radio programme On the Hour. The series is composed of six half-hour episodes and a selection of shorter, five-minute slots recorded as promotion trailers for the longer segments. Only six episodes...
(BBC 2 — creator, co-writer, producer plus occasional appearances. The Day Today was the TV adaptation of On The HourOn the Hour was a British radio programme that parodied current affairs broadcasting, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1991 and 1992.Written by Chris Morris, Patrick Marber, Eric Weinstein, Armando Iannucci, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring and David Quantick, it starred...
)
- The Saturday Night Armistice
The Saturday Night Armistice was a 1995 satirical television comedy programme presented by Armando Iannucci with Peter Baynham and David Schneider.-Format:...
(writer, producer, presenter etc. - later The Friday Night Armistice)
- Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge
Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge is a British comedy show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as a six-episode series, which subsequently transferred to BBC Television with a series of six episodes , and a Christmas special in...
(co-writer, producer, co-creator)
- I'm Alan Partridge
I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan of which two series of six episodes were produced, the first in 1997 and the second in 2002....
(co-writer, producer, director)
- The Armando Iannucci Shows
The Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of eight programmes directed by Armando Iannucci and written by Iannucci with Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil. It was shown on UK's Channel 4 from September to October 2001...
(writer, performer, director)
- Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt
Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt was a one-off satire, written and narrated by Armando Iannucci in a similar style to his later shows, notably Time Trumpet. Purporting to be a documentary from the future, it cast actors as older versions of genuine people, , to present a comic spin on the Lewinsky...
(writer, director)
- Gash (writer, presenter)
- Have I Got News For You
Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been running since 1990...
, twice as a panelist on 23 April 2004 and 4 May 2007.
- The Thick of It
The Thick of It is a British comedy television series, which satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2005, and has so far completed six half-hour episodes and two special hour-long episodes to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's...
(writer, director)
- 2004: The Stupid Version
2004: The Stupid Version is a satirical documentary written by Armando Iannucci, broadcast in two parts on BBC Three on New Year's Eve 2004. The one-off programme is a parody of review programmes typically broadcast at New Year...
(Presenter, co-writer, director)
- Time Trumpet
Time Trumpet is a six-episode television comedy series which aired on BBC Two during Summer 2006. The first full show was broadcast on Thursday 3 August 2006 at 10pm; a 10 minute preview had been broadcast two weeks earlier...
(writer, presenter, director)
- Lab Rats
Lab Rats is a 2008 BBC 2 situation comedy set in a university science laboratory. It stars Chris Addison, who has co-written the series with Carl Cooper...
(executive producer)
- Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle is a 2009 comedy series created by Stewart Lee.The BBC Two series debuted on 16 March 2009, and featured stand-up routines and sketches performed by Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon and Paul Putner amongst others. Peter Serafinowicz recorded voice-over parts. The series is...
(executive producer, plus appears in "Comedy Extra" segments on red button)
Radio
- On the Hour
On the Hour was a British radio programme that parodied current affairs broadcasting, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1991 and 1992.Written by Chris Morris, Patrick Marber, Eric Weinstein, Armando Iannucci, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring and David Quantick, it starred...
(BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
— creator, co-writer, producer)
- No' The Archie McPherson Show (BBC Radio Scotland
BBC Radio Scotland is BBC Scotland's national English language radio network. It broadcasts a wide variety of programming including news, sport, light entertainment, music, the arts, comedy, drama, history and lifestyle...
— presenter, writer, producer)
- Armando Iannucci (BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the BBC which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock or interviews. It is aimed...
— writer, presenter, producer)
- The News Quiz
The News Quiz is a topical comedy quiz broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4.-History:It was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took , and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in...
(BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
— producer, also appeared as guest)
- Quote... Unquote
Quote... Unquote is a panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4 based on quotations. Every episode since the beginning of the series in 1976 has been chaired by its deviser, Nigel Rees...
(BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
— producer)
- Loose Talk
Loose Talk was a chat show broadcast on Channel 4 in 1983.Presented by Steve Taylor, along with a different guest presenter each week, Loose Talk was a short lived youth orientated chat show for Channel 4 which ran for two series throughout 1983....
(producer)
- The Mary Whitehouse Experience
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions. It starred two comedy double acts - David Baddiel and Rob Newman, and also Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, all of whom had graduated from Cambridge University...
(producer)
- The 99p Challenge
The 99p Challenge is a spoof panel game originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The show is presented by Sue Perkins and features a selection of regular panelists such as Armando Iannucci and regular writers Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Jon Holmes and Tony Roche...
on BBC Radio 4.
- Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a British radio comedy programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2005 with a second series in 2006, a third in 2007 and a fourth in 2008. Series 2, 3 and 4 of the show were broadcast in the popular Friday evening slot, which it has shared with The...
on BBC Radio 4
- Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World
Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring , and narrated by Tom Baker as the titular character, Lionel Nimrod, an over the top parody of Leonard Nimoy. The show itself somewhat parodies the Leonard Nimoy program "In Search Of..."...
as various characters.
- Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. It was first broadcast on 29 January 1942 and is said by the Guinness Book of Records to be the longest-running music programme in the history of radio...
- BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
as a guest. Armando reveals how as a youngster he rebelled against his parents' "Classical Music listening ways" by playing Wagner.
- Scraps With Iannucci a BBC Radio 4 series from 1998.
- Week Ending
Week Ending... was a satirical radio current affairs sketch show, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, usually on Friday evenings. It was devised by writer/producers Simon Brett and David Hatch, and was originally hosted by Nationwide presenter Michael Barratt.The show's title was always announced as...
(BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
— producer)
Print
- Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word by Steve Coogan, Peter Baynham, Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber (Michael Joseph, 2003) ISBN 0-7181-4678-6
- Facts and Fancies (Michael Joseph, 1997) ISBN 0-7181-3951-8
- Weekly newspaper column in The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a left-liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-History:The...
Audiobooks
- Facts and Fancies (BBC Audiobooks, 1998) ISBN 0-563-55756-7
- I'm Alan Partridge: Knowing Me, Knowing Yule (BBC Audiobooks, 1998) ISBN 0-563-55763-X
- Knowing Me, Knowing You...: With Alan Partridge: Complete Series (BBC Audiobooks, 1995) CD ISBN 0-563-38896-X, cassette ISBN 0-563-38891-9
External links