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  DVD Outsider: The Armando Iannucci Shows DVD review
Iannucci's show was seen by a few, and they did talk about it, and the later repeat screenings expanded the audience further, but we're still talking a very small following here, not enough to convince the television types that a second series would be worth their while.
Iannucci's approach might best be described as observational surrealism, scattershot comments on small but significant aspects of everyday life played out with the slightly fractured reality of a just-before-you-wake dream.
Wittily written in Iannucci's own style (I could almost believe it was written by him – maybe it was, but full marks to whoever did if not), it provides an amusing and everso slightly cynical introduction to the series.
www.dvdoutsider.co.uk /dvd/reviews/a/armando_iannucci_shows.html   (1155 words)

  
 Armando Iannucci - Moviefone
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive on BBC Radio 4 (writer, presenter) (the second series of...
The Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of 8 programmes directed by Armando...
Most of the sketches and characters in the Armando Iannucci shows were...
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 Independent Online Edition > Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Armando Iannucci claims to be annoyed - although a tell-tale smile is playing across his lips.
Iannucci has long been fascinated by politics - he hosted an all-night version of the Saturday Night Armistice on the election night of 1997 and has been a guest on Andrew Neil's This Week and The Daily Politics - and admits to being intrigued by the rise of the Tory leader, David Cameron.
Iannucci reckons that the show struck such a chord because, "people had already been building up a perception of the Government manipulating the media and vice versa, but up until that point, nothing had crystallised.
news.independent.co.uk /media/article1204955.ece   (2678 words)

  
 armando iannucci shows - review at videovista
Armando Iannucci may not be a household name but he's certainly become a respected figure in comedy, with his writing and producing credits including such highly regarded TV shows as The Day Today and I'm Alan Partridge.
The topics that Iannucci covers during the linking segments are also given exaggerated form in the sketches themselves, with the material reflecting contemporary culture and social mores.
Iannucci proves a likeable and talkative host, and we also get a nice mix of anecdotes and information along with speculation as to why the show was overlooked when it first aired (that its transmission coincided with 9/11 and its aftermath is cited as a major factor).
www.videovista.net /reviews/oct06/armando.html   (914 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Review | Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci is a comic writer, performer, director and producer whose radio and television programmes have been regarded by The Sunday Times as 'Quite simply the funniest programmes to grace the airwaves.'
Armando has also conducted two sell-out live tours, in 1996 and 1999 and has recently finished presenting a series of "Gash" a nightly topical comedy show for Channel 4, for whom he also wrote, directed and presented The Armando Iannucci Shows in 2001.
Armando is the only person to have received a Special British Comedy Award, granted for his unique contribution to television and radio comedy.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/3168307.stm   (211 words)

  
 Armando Iannucci
ARMANDO IANNUCCI is the museum curator, and has written the official guide, with original music composed and performed by Django Bates....
Armando first discovered Mahler aged ten when he joined his local library, and over time he has developed an idea of the composer as a sort of invisible friend, sometimes a companion sometimes an enemy....
ARMANDO IANNUCCI returns to put the year into perspective, with thoughts on Richard Branson, Hollywood disaster movies, New Labour and all of civilization (1/4)....
www.radiolistings.co.uk /candc/iannucci_armando.html   (650 words)

  
 News: Armando Iannucci named as Oxford's next Broadcast Media Professor
Armando's lecture series, entitled 'British TV Comedy: Dead or Alive?' will begin on 24 January 2006.
Scottish-born Armando Iannucci is a comic writer, performer, director and producer.
Armando gained his degree at University College, Oxford, and began his career working for BBC Radio Scotland before moving to BBC Radio 1 as a producer on shows such as The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the eighties.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/051101a.shtml   (559 words)

  
 No more funny stuff: Interview with Armando Iannucci | Cherwell 24   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
For Armando Iannucci, then, one of the Observer’s fifty funniest acts in British comedy, life must be positively delirious.
That said, Iannucci is keen to stress that comedy shouldn’t be treated as anything more than what it is: “I’m very nervous of comedy that has another message behind it.
In the first of his first lectures, Iannucci noted the recent decline in TV comedy, with output and viewing figures halved over the last twenty years.
www.cherwell.org /arts/features/no_more_funny_stuff_interview_with_armando_iannucci   (1017 words)

  
 News: Armando Iannucci to lecture at Oxford on British comedy
Acclaimed comedy writer and producer Armando Iannucci, Oxford University’s News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media, will begin his lecture series ‘British TV Comedy: Dead or Alive?’ on Tuesday 24 January 2006.
Armando said: ‘If British TV has a heritage, then comedy is its most precious commodity.
Armando Iannucci is a comic writer, performer, director and producer.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/060118.shtml   (646 words)

  
 The Armando Iannucci Armistice
year old Glaswegian-Italian Armando Iannucci is a comic writer, performer, director and producer whose radio and television programmes have been regarded as “Quite simply the funniest programmes to grace the airwaves in the 1990's” (The Sunday Times).
Armando was introduced to the world of radio whilst working at Radio Scotland in Glasgow.
Armando Iannucci produced the show, with Steve Coogan (Partrdige), Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan, Patrick Marber and David Schneider the only writers and performers for the show.
www.wernhamhogg.co.uk /armando/armando.html   (1363 words)

  
 Armando Iannucci : Comedian Profile
Armando Iannucci is a Scottish comedian, satirist and radio producer.
Iannucci's influence throughout all this is undeniable; whilst more recently he produced the rather tame 'Smokehammer website with Morris, as well as the short-lived topical satire Gash, he continues to churn out work of note.
Iannucci has written The Thick Of It, a political satire-cum-Whitehall farce for BBC 4.
www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/i/iannucci-armando.htm   (462 words)

  
 Armando Iannucci’s Time Trumpet, 23/07/06, And Now For a Word
So the other night the BBC aired a ten minute preview of Iannucci's new show, Time Trumpet, starting next month.
Time Trumpet is simmilar with a much larger remit – television for the next 20 years, looking back from 2025.
I've often felt "Clinton…" was one of Iannucci's best works, so I'm very much looking forward to this.
blogs.warwick.ac.uk /loved/entry/armando_iannuccis_time   (240 words)

  
 Armando Iannucci: How we learnt to chase our tails | Comment | The Observer
Armando Iannucci: How we learnt to chase our tails
Armando Iannucci: Russell Brand died that Jimmy Carr's python might live
Armando Iannucci: A modern fairy tale or how a clever chap came unstuck
observer.guardian.co.uk /columnists/story/0,,1843672,00.html   (931 words)

  
 Armando Iannucci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Armando Iannucci (born 1964, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish comedian, satirist and radio producer.
Lee would go on to co-write the controversial Jerry Springer — The Opera, but perhaps the most famous "alumnus" of this group is Steve Coogan's character Alan Partridge, who first appeared in On the Hour, and has featured in multiple spin-off series.
More recently, Iannucci has written The Thick of It, a political satire-cum-Whitehall farce for BBC Four.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armando_Ianucci   (999 words)

  
 NETRIBUTION - Armando Iannucci Takes On Hollywood For Laughs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Comedy producer Armando Iannucci plans to take on Hollywood in the comedy film business and has joined forces with BBC Films to do it.
Iannucci, tha man behind TV projects like The Thick Of It and Alan Partridge, will head a special comedy lab to develop low-budget comedy ideas for feature films, working closely with BBC Films chief David Thompson.
Iannucci says he likes the idea of The Thick Of It being developed on a larger canvas with, say, a developing crisis between the US and Britain.
www.netribution.co.uk /2/content/view/642/182   (427 words)

  
 BBC - Comedy - Armando Iannucci
iannucci Looking for The Thick of It on BBC FOUR?
October 2005 - Armando chats about The Thick of It...
Making best use of a 'Reality Consultant', non-conventional production techniques and how The Thick of It will grow and grow...
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/iannucci   (78 words)

  
 "The Armando Iannucci Shows" (2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Armando Iannucci will not be a familiar household name.
However, the man behind The Day Today and On The Hour (which launched Chris Morris's and Steve Coogans careers), shows us all that he can in fact do comedy as a frontman just as well as he can as a writer, producer and director.
The shows take place as a set of superb surreal sketches, well timed and filmed, with Iannucci talking us through his observations.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0294004   (309 words)

  
 Armando Iannucci At Oxford | Funny UK Comedy
Armando Iannucci is to lecture at Oxford on British comedy, giving four lectures over the coming weeks, all under the title of 'British TV Comedy: Dead or Alive?'
For those of you not familiar with Mr Iannucci's work, a short summary of why he's extremely well qualified to give these lectures.
He wrote and presented The Friday and Saturday Night Armistice on BBC, The Armando Iannucci Shows on Channel 4 and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive on BBC Radio 4.
www.funny.co.uk /news/art_72-3835-Armando-Iannucci-At-Oxford/.html   (215 words)

  
 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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 Armando Iannucci Show, the - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
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Armando was quite brave to do this show as - although being behind a lot of the funniest radio and TV comedy of the last 10 years - he is not a big name or well-known face.
Chris Morris may have rattled more cages with his later Brasseye venture but some of the stuff Armando gets away with is just as shocking.
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 Textbooks by Armando Iannucci - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive: Part 2 by Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive: Part 5 by Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive: Part 4 by Armando Iannucci
www.directtextbook.com /author/armando-iannucci   (340 words)

  
 The Armando Iannucci Shows (UK - DVD R2) in News > Releases at DVDActive
Fremantle Home Entertainment has announced the release of The Armando Iannucci Shows for the 4th of Septemeber, priced at around £15.99.
All eight episodes are included in the two-disc set, along with commentary, deleted scenes and a writer's biography with a twist!
Armando Ianucci was a writer behind a lot of great british comedy series.
www.dvdactive.com /news/releases/the-armando-iannucci-shows.html   (322 words)

  
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 Request - Armando Iannucci Shows from the UK - Mininova Forum
Request - Armando Iannucci Shows from the UK, Very funny man....
Hey this is my first post here so I hope its in the right place.
Does anyone remember the Armando Iannucci Shows that were on a few years back?
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 The Armando Iannucci Shows » Torrentspy.com
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 View topic - Armando Iannucci Shows DVD
Strange old times, Armando's show on a Thursday night, planes crash into towers on the Tuesday before...
Equally, I have no idea about the impact of the music changes, although I disagree that its use is ever incidental in Iannucci's work.
Time Trumpet at some point in the near future, which is a new TV series.
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 Armando Iannucci (a Titles and Air Dates Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Armando Iannucci (a Titles and Air Dates Guide)
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 Armando Iannucci - Mark Leavy's personal blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I've recently been listening to a lot of Armando Iannucci on BBC Radio.
Here's some quotes of his if you've never heard of him:
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 Armando - AOL Music
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 The South Bank Show: Armando Iannucci - TV.com
Rebecca Front (Herself), Patrick Marber (Himself), David Schneider (Himself), Steve Coogan (Himself), Armando Iannucci (Himself)
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