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| | Barbelith Underground > Film, TV & Theatre > The Armando Iannucci Show |
 | | Hate to disagree - and Ive only watched one episode - the "age" one - and thought it was absolute pish. |
 | | They both do the 'absurdism + satire' thingy, and Morris' version is certainly more extreme, possibly nastier, but that doesn't necessarily make Iannucci's stuff the feeble copy which 'sub' suggests, because I don't reckon he's going for the same effect (I don't see any attempts at shock for a start). |
 | | I'm pretty sure that Iannucci has been into this sort of thing for at least as long as Morris, possibly longer (I think he started off producing, and I think he was the one responsible for giving Morris, Peter Baynham, Coogan etc a foot up via stints on Radio 4. |
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