Armando Iannucci

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

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

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