Armando Ianucci

Armando Iannucci
Iannucci in October 2010
Birth name	Armando Giovanni Iannucci
Born	(1963-11-28) 28 November 1963 (age 53) Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Medium	Television, film, radio, stand up comedy
Alma mater	University of Glasgow, University College, Oxford
Years active	1990–present
Genres	Sitcom, political satire
Spouse	Rachael Jones (m. 1990)

Armando Giovanni Iannucci, OBE (/ɑːrˈmændoʊ jəˈnuːtʃi/; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, television director, and radio producer.

Born in Glasgow, Iannucci studied at Oxford University and left graduate work on a PhD about John Milton to pursue a career in comedy. Starting on BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 4, his early work with Chris Morris on the radio series On the Hour was transferred to television as The Day Today. A character from this series, Alan Partridge, went on to feature in a number of Iannucci's television and radio programmes including and I'm Alan Partridge. In the meantime, Iannucci also fronted the satirical Armistice review shows and in 2001 created his most personal work, The Armando Iannucci Shows, for Channel 4.

Moving back to the BBC in 2005, Iannucci created the political sitcom The Thick of It as well as the spoof documentary Time Trumpet in 2006. Winning funding from the UK Film Council, he directed a critically acclaimed feature film, In the Loop, featuring characters from The Thick of It in 2009. As a result of these works, he has been described by The Daily Telegraph as "the hardman of political satire". Iannucci created the HBO political satire Veep, and was its showrunner for four seasons from 2012 to 2015.