Armando Iannucci: ‘It’s amusing to annoy people’

Armando Iannucci

On a roll with Veep and eyeing The Thick Of It’s endgame, Armando Iannucci tells Paul Whitelaw about HBO creative freedom, why the BBC needs Sky competition – and that OBE

Thick of It writer on creativity and competition

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