Armando Iannucci c or d (inc. Time Trumpet talk)

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I watched his new show last night on Channel 4 and found myself laughing more than I had in ages. Particularly hilarious was the sketch about talking about football in the pub at the end where all the footy people were linked to pundits in the pub cellar. What did anyone else think? Genius or Morris lite? and did I spell his name right?

― cabbage, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spelling looks fine to me, and *I* was intending to ask this question, dammit!

Personally I thought it was a triumph - my favourite scene was the dinner party, where I actually found myself cringing with embarassment at Armando's totally inappropriate interventions, locked in a battle of wits with the guy sitting opposite him that he was always destined to lose - until the pie containing pithy one-liners appears! The way the whole tone of that scene turned around was sheer genius.

I was also tickled by the thought that God has no sympathy for ME sufferers.

Definately a classic - I reckon it'll stand the test of time, unlike Morris who is a product of his time who will later be perceived as irrelevant.

― Trevor, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The pie was superb, I am another who cringes at things like that but it was so funny too. Didn't Arnmando write a lot of the day today with Morris?

and some of those insults! Furry tit cake

― cabbage, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

must be a limey show

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Didn't see it last night, but his cringeworthy appearances on the Saturday Night Armistice put me off for life. Also, the trailer (Elvis impersonator goes Britney) was pretty uninspired.

― Nick, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, that was possibly the worst bit of the whole programme so why they chose it as a trailer was a mystery. To be honest I wasn't expecting it to be funny but I laughed like a drain. I'm sure they'll show it in the week on e4 if you've got that on your cable, it's worth catching.

― cabbage, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought it was a bit disappointing until the big punchline at the end where everyone's being fed lines except him. Maybe he should just buy some glasses and try to be Woody Allen?

― Greg, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This was excellent, the dinner party scene, the scene in the park trying to kick a ball back in and failing, the pathetic trying to be 'one of the boys' in the pub scene. Comedy of embarrasment at it's painful best. Much prefered it to his satire stuff (though I liked that too).
And he's working on another Alan Partridge series - yay!
This cabal of Morris/Iannucci/Patrick Marber/Steve Coogan = seperatley or as a team, far and away the best comedy writers in Britain?

― DavidM, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, tonight's might just have been the best 35 minutes of TV in living memory. I was in tears, dammit.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Michael, I wish I didn't trust your judgement so much. Now I'm going to have to see it.

― Nick, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and I missed it, dammit!

Mike, what was the theme?

― cabbage, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, basically the same as last week - people's fears that their lives are meaningless and pathetic. I may have been slightly overrating it, as, on reflection, it sagged a little between the *fantastic* opening and the magnificent end, but Pam & I were in genuine mirthful physical discomfort by the end. It so nicely underplayed, with the most inappropriate (yet *not*) use of Gorecki and Part imaginable. I wished I'd taped it... do Ch4 repeat in at 3am during the week?

― Michael Jones, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

2004 - the stupid version. tonight BBC2 10:20.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Cor, timely revival. 2004: TSV patchy but frequently glorious. Will set the VCR.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 29 January 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm looking forward to it - someone included it in the best 10 seconds of tv ever thread - i think it was on BBC3 originally.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it was me! Apologies in advance if it fails to live up to my hype.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm - it's only 40min. I hope they've excised the bits I didn't like and not been forced to edit down due to unwittingly-participating-celeb grumpiness.

The 2001 series which was the reason for this thread should finally be out on DVD this year - minus the Sinatra/Part/Gorecki music, clearance for which was making the whole project uneconomical.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought it was great. pretty trippy, no? the best thing about it was that black guy who was talking about how he couldnt "think of words while looking at [ianucci's'] face. super coincidentally he is also in that Nathan Balrey trailer saying "its good because it looks like it's good because it's rude" and was also the funniest thing in that trailer too i thought!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Howard "i dont like Tony Blair because he's a.... FUCKING..... TWAT!"

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

2004 The Stupid Version was very very funny esp. Bush and Blair cut-ups and woman being run over

― Stevem On X (blueski), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Two good things: the celebs going unfilmed, and the Streets parody. The rest was baaaaaaaad. Dad.

― Bumfluff, Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The bloke from Garth Merengi's (sp?) Darkplace giving his comments on the Beckham penalty were good.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 30 January 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The 2001 series which was the reason for this thread should finally be out on DVD this year - minus the Sinatra/Part/Gorecki music, clearance for which was making the whole project uneconomical.

Oh, excellent.

I like Richard Ayoade and his silly whiny voice, that shit penalty miss analysis and its subsequent replacement with complaining about divots was well funny, also in GMD when he says 'if Wonton gets wind of this then my arse is grass, y'dig?'

The photoshopped Dalek prison abuse photos are like my favourite thing ever.

Also the Voices in Alex Ferguson's head bits.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Armando Ianucci might be my hero.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah who is this Richard Ayoade fellow? he's good!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got his book "Facts And Fancies" which I haven't read in ages but I seem to remember is really good. I can't remember how to put links in but you can see it at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0718139518/qid=1107109113/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_11_3/202-2445766-6162234. Sorry.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it worked. Right, I'll try and remember that for future reference.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

any address beginning http automatically becomes a hyperlink on ILX, Nick.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Darkplace thing I quoted above was wrong and unfunny, it is 'If Wonton gets wind of this my arse is grass, and he's got a lawnmower, y'dig?'.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that - "Sorry, I was wrong and unfunny". I must use that more often myself.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

I saw the second episode of The Thick Of It the other day and quite enjoyed it though there weren't many LOL moments. But I'm still not tired of the mocku-style presentation and it was very engaging overall.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

that series they were discussing upthread was golden, but i have forgotten it and it has sort of been forgotten generally. i keep missing 'the thick of it'.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to start a thread on The Thick Of It but chickened out. I think it's ace. The only slight weakness is the unrelenting vileness of Capaldi's character.

Langham seems to have become the Bill Murray of Brit TV comedy - if he's in it, you have to see it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Also like Murray, kind of one-note*. I didn't make much effort to watch the thing he did with Whitehouse. I know he's good but I do find him hard to watch sometimes.

*the only exception I've ever seen to the archetypal Langham character was the drunken bookie he played in one episode of Bottom, in which he seemed hammy and not at all convincing.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd agree with the one-note assessment, but, like Murray, I could listen to that one note all day. Which is probably why I like Ryoji Ikeda.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, whenever I have read reviews and previews of this, I have read "Peter Capaldi" and thought of Peter Serafinowicz. When I eventually get round to seeing it, I am going to be disappointed that Peter S. isn't in the role.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

i came to 'TTOI' very late but omg is it brilliant. i think having an *even more obnoxious* scottish bastard was a stroke of genius for series 2, but a lot of the scenes had too much going on on first viewing -- all the bollockings in the no. 10 unit.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I agree; I really wasn't sure about the Capaldi character in series 1, but the decision not to tone him down but rather show an entire staff of snarling "Caledonian" attack-dogs even less reasonable than him is great.

I saw PC in the post office the other day. Nice to know slebs have to deal with the never-less-than-25-people queue at Poland Street PO too.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

'NOMFUP'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Funniest thing I've seen on British TV in some time. Although I have been out of the country for two years.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Michael, did you congratulate him on his role in the excellent Hugh Laurie vehicle, "Fortysomething"?

I have missed this "The Thick Of It" thing.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

it's the best comedy i've seen in aaaages.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

"Notting Hill Gategate"

― Lester gingham, Monday, 24 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

it's about bloody time Armando Ianucci's show came out on DVD, don'tcha think?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

SHIT. i knew there was something i wanted to tape. fuck. i need to get into this torrenting lark :(

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

it's about bloody time Armando Ianucci's show came out on DVD, don'tcha think?

He said somewhere that it was his "new year's resolution" to do something about that. Which suggests that the ball is in his court wrt sourcing some rights-free music to replace all that Gorecki and Part on the original broadcast edits. I can see why he's putting it off - quite a lot of work (to make something fantastic slightly less good) for probably not much return.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

i've just watched these again via bittorrent and they were brilliant. i wish i had a hairdresser who rambled like that.

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1849155,00.html

very 'thick of it'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Good news for those wanting the DVD. It's due for release around March/April time.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Brown was on fine form, joking with Lady Sovereign, a 19-year-old rapper, impressing her by knowing that her single Hoodie is tipped to go straight into the top 10. “Thanks man, cool,” she told the chancellor. Like Brown, she is billed as the next big thing but doesn’t like to brag about it.

As the Kaiser Chiefs headed down the stairs, Brown ran after them to shake the hand of the lead singer, Ricky Wilson, greeting him by his first name.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

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I feel your frustration. The Times' article the other day that emphasised how the recently-outed police-beating video had been spread by a 'violent black activist with a criminal record' actually made me feel sick.

― unfished business, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

i only get the observer because on sundays i need gentle familiarity, and i always end up thinking, why do i get the observer? the iannucci column may as well just be a picture of tumbleweeds. i never know where the funny bits are meant to be.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

even the telegraph (which i read) wouldn't pull that shit; the times is truly scarific coz people who consider themselves apolitical seem to read it, like it isn't actually as bad as the mail.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

my last was an xpost.

i gave up sunday newspapers -- and never looked back. all that time saved.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

ditto but remove the 'sunday'

― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember the last time I even looked at a newspaper. Oh yes, housemate's parents bought the Mail the other day, the headline was something about Eurocrats banning good old fashioned British lightbulbs to be replaced by new expensive fanny-dangle low-energy lightbulbs OH NO HITLER'S WON.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

"i didn't think of radio but it's a training school for the people who end up on tv so i guess it can't be great"

reminds me that this has just restarted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/armandoiannuccischarmoffensive.shtml

― koogs, Monday, 3 September 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://stage6.divx.com/The-Armando-Iannucci-Shows/video/1260944/Armando-Iannucci-Shows---S01E01---Episode-1

Stream The Armando Ianucci Shows online. "I sniper, I snipe. If I hide, I no sniper"

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 7 September 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

"one day I will kill...all of you"

― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 7 September 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Hopefully, Hale and Pace will come to realise that life is mostly miserable"

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

That was really them, wasn't it?

― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

"...i'm over here"

― pisces, Friday, 7 September 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Also the racist wedding.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

The only thing wrong with Time Trumpet is that Peter Baynham isn't the narrator.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 19 October 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i just saw his thing about paradise lost and it's pretty fuckin dope.

― history mayne, Thursday, 3 September 2009 23:11 (sixteen years ago)

after realizing how many of my favorite things he was involved with, I dled his interview with Mark Lawson and I think I have a new obsession. You lucky lucky Brits.

― picked up the sneer-slack (sciolism), Friday, 4 September 2009 06:53 (sixteen years ago)

In THE AUDACITY OF HYPE, Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. THE AUDACITY OF HYPE brings together his views on diverse subjects, ranging from wickedly funny pen portraits of the sometimes loveable, usually despicable chumps who like to think of themselves as our political elite, and their bonkers schemes to save the world that are in fact likely to do us more harm than a pile of witches, to WMD, disaster movies, the pitfalls of 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' and the high and mighty rhetoric of Obama, this is an absurdly entertaining and utterly indispensable collection from one of Britain's most brilliant satirists.

I didn't know about this, but it might be good? It is a book.

― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Monday, 7 September 2009 15:19 (sixteen years ago)

i think IA generally works best as an enabler of other folks' good work. never very taken with his newspaper columns.

― history mayne, Monday, 7 September 2009 15:21 (sixteen years ago)

Thought the Facts and Fancies one was good, especially when read by IA himself, but according to the one Amazon review of this it's a bit more of an erratic "brain dump" and he doesn't expand very much on some ideas.

― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Monday, 7 September 2009 15:27 (sixteen years ago)

they have not covered themselves in glory with the cover art.

― history mayne, Monday, 7 September 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)

Hehe yeah, also pretty sure he was looking a bit more spherical than that during his recent interviews.

The Armando Iannucci Shows DVD is £4.18 on Amazon UK at the moment.

― Eugene Sander-Rygar (MPx4A), Monday, 7 September 2009 15:35 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=27908

― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Is it true Comedy Central is filming an American pilot of Time Trumpet?

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 30 June 2011 08:51 (fourteen years ago)

armando iannucci show is probably my favourite comedy series of all time, peaks with this haunting sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVab6bz1dQw

― NI, Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

when he kisses the gran, actually screaming at that point. like every clumsy kiss ever - the observational skills of this sketch are just next level

― NI, Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

v clear parallels with this and limmy's show. limmy as armando's rum nephew hyped-up on e-numbers and cans of spesh

― NI, Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, loved The Armando Iannucci Shows.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 10 July 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Matt Seitz not crazy about Veep:

http://nymag.com/arts/tv/reviews/veep-2012-4/

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 April 2012 17:36 (fourteen years ago)

he wants it to Mean Something but iannuci shows only mean something by accident or as a cumulative consequence; i'd go so far as to say the whole point of iannucci's shows is to peel back the gravity of meaningfulness from venues that assume it as a given

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 April 2012 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

I've only seen In the Loop, but I can see where he might not quite get it right by doing a full-time D.C. show. (even w/ Frank Rich aboard)

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 April 2012 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

especially w frank rich aboard...

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 April 2012 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

http://afistfulofculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Veep.jpg

― Acute puppy syndrome (admrl), Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:48 (fourteen years ago)

trailer makes it look very 'traditional sitcom'ish IMO.

― piscesx, Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:16 (fourteen years ago)

Could be. This thread makes me miss Time Trumpet. He should have done something like that instead!

― Acute puppy syndrome (admrl), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

Should've done more Thick of It instead, TBH.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:11 (fourteen years ago)

new Thick of It seaon in some stage of development atm, I believe.

― Simon H., Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:55 (fourteen years ago)

btw A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP

― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 April 2012 04:59 (fourteen years ago)

i'd gladly have watched a Jamie show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzszTRCoj44

― piscesx, Saturday, 21 April 2012 10:00 (fourteen years ago)

Should've done more Thick of It instead, TBH.

He's said he's really glad doing Veep delayed the next Thick Of It series, as it gave them a coalition goverment to play with.

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 21 April 2012 11:56 (fourteen years ago)

That fucking Jamie video is fucking gold.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

"Monkey tennis"- for that alone.

― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:39 (fourteen years ago)

Want me to hole punch your face?

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 14:04 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

The recent Leveson inquiry has thrown up many things, including the testimony of the late Jeremy Hunt. It's interesting to notice that although people criticise the fact that we now have a transport secretary who's scared of flying and an equalities minister who's against gays, nobody has picked up on the fact that a man a lot of people want to see dead is now health secretary.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/11/armando-iannucci-bafta-lecture-transcript?CMP=twt_gu

― very sexual album (schlump), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:05 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

In Conversation with Armando Iannucci About ‘The Armando Iannucci Shows’ and Nothing Else

Zooh-za-zaa!

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-armando-iannucci-shows

― piscesx, Monday, 8 August 2016 14:57 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

https://duaw26jehqd4r.cloudfront.net/items/2q2G3h1A3o0e0s2H3r1W/Screen%20Shot%202019-01-03%20at%2012.13.49.png

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 January 2019 12:15 (seven years ago)

eight months pass...

i'm not surprised Whishaw is a good Uriah Heep

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-armando-iannucci-the-personal-history-of-david-copperfield/

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 01:32 (six years ago)

three years pass...

Reminder: MARVEL AGE #1000, an anthology issue coming August 30, will feature a Daredevil story by Armando Iannucci (yes, THE Armando Iannucci) and Adam Kubert (yes, THE Adam Kubert)! pic.twitter.com/PqJ5EcZuUk
— Daredevil ManWithoutFear.com (@manwithoutfear) August 17, 2023

― koogs, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:23 (two years ago)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/armando-iannucci-new-covid-play-matt-hancock-ken-barbie-b1099077.html

― conrad, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:51 (two years ago)

(yes, THE Adam Kubert)

no doubt personally selected by Ianucci as the best and most thoughtful potential interpreter of his script

― vashti funyuns (sic), Saturday, 19 August 2023 22:05 (two years ago)

oh no

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 19 August 2023 22:08 (two years ago)

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