Armando Giovanni Iannucci (pronounced /ɑrˈmændoʊ jəˈnuːtʃi/) (born 28 November 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish comedian, writer, director, performer and radio producer. He has been described by The Daily Telegraph as " the hardman of political satire".
Iannucci's father, Armando (Snr), is from Naples, Italy, while his mother is from Glasgow, Scotland, where Iannucci was born. His father, who came to Scotland in 1950, ran a pizza factory. Armando has...
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Armando Giovanni Iannucci (pronounced /ɑrˈmændoʊ jəˈnuːtʃi/) (born 28 November 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish comedian, writer, director, performer and radio producer. He has been described by The Daily Telegraph as " the hardman of political satire".
Iannucci's father, Armando (Snr), is from Naples, Italy, while his mother is from Glasgow, Scotland, where Iannucci was born. His father, who came to Scotland in 1950, ran a pizza factory. Armando has two brothers and a sister. In his teens he thought seriously about becoming a Roman Catholic priest. Iannucci was educated at St Peter's Primary School, St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow, the University of Glasgow, and University College, Oxford, where he read English gaining an MA in 1986. He abandoned graduate work on 17th-century religious language with particular reference to Milton's Paradise Lost, to pursue his career in broadcasting with particular reference to comedy.
Despite his involvement in many facets of British comedy as a producer...
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