Armando Iannucci, Esq, OBE

Career: writer, producer, director, presenter; prodr BBC Radio Light Entertainment 1988-91; columnist: Daily Telegraph 2000-06, The Observer 2006-, Gramophone 2006-; memb BAFTA 2006; Award for Special Contribution to Comedy Br Comedy Award 1995, The Writers' Guild of GB Award Br Comedy Award 2011; Radio BBC Radio 4 shows incl: On The Hour 1991-92 (Best Radio Comedy British Comedy Awards 1992), Knowing Me, Knowing You 1992-93 (Best Comedy Sony Radio Awards 1993, Best Radio Comedy British Comedy Awards 1993), Armando Iannucci Show (presenter) 1993-97, News Quiz (regular panellist); Television incl: The Day Today (BBC 2) 1994, Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge (writer and prodr, BBC 2) 1994 (Best New TV Comedy British Comedy Awards 1995), Saturday Night Armistice (BBC 2) 1995, The Friday Night Armistice (BBC 2) 1996-99 (Bronze Rose of Montreux 1996), I'm Alan Partridge (writer and prodr, BBC 2) 1997 (Best Comedy BAFTA 1998, British Comedy Award 1998), The Armando Iannucci Shows (presenter and dir, Channel 4) 2001, The Thick of It (BBC 4) 2005-09 (Best Comedy BAFTA 2005, Best Comedy RTS 2005, Best Scripted Comedy RTS 2010), Time Trumpet (BBC 2) 2006, Veep 2012; Film In The Loop 2009 (Best Screenplay Evening Standard Br Film Award 2010, Screenwriter of the Year London Film Critics' Circle Award 2010)