The Armando Iannucci Shows
About The Armando Iannucci Shows
The Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of eight programmes focused on specific themes relating to human nature and existentialism, around which Iannucci would weave a series of surreal sketches and monologues. Recurring themes in the episodes are the superficiality of modern culture, our problems communicating with each other, the mundane nature of working life and feelings of personal inadequacy…
The Armando Iannucci Shows is a comedy series made for Channel 4. Its one season of 8 episodes was broadcast from August 2001 to October 2001.
Armando Iannucci appears as Himself, Stephen Mangan as Television Executive #4, Alan Ford as Alan The East End Thug, and Tony Gardner as Television Executive #1.
Shelv files it under surreal and sketch comedy.
Monty Python's Flying Circus, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, and The League of Gentlemen make useful companions to The Armando Iannucci Shows.