Armando Iannucci

Has Donald Trump caused an existential crisis for political satire?

Armando Iannucci’s ‘Death of Stalin’ achieves the remarkable: hilariously skewering a murderous dictator. But even he thinks Trump may reveal comedy’s limits

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When you fear the sound of your own voice

Armando Iannucci—writer of The Thick Of It, In The Loop and Veep—talks to Slate about the lives of politicians.

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And now . . . a loopy Iraq war movie

In a profane new British comedy, the hawks aren’t bogged down with such things as truth