In a scene at the start of In The Loop, the film adaptation of Armando Iannucci's political satire The Thick Of It, a politician and his aide travelling in a ministerial limo take simultaneous calls from satanic spin-doctor Malcom Tucker (Peter Capaldi).
In a scene at the start of In The Loop, the film adaptation of Armando Iannucci's political satire The Thick Of It, a politician and his aide travelling in a ministerial limo take simultaneous calls from satanic spin-doctor Malcom Tucker (Peter Capaldi).
atlantic CROSSING:Armando Ianucci is breaking new ground in the US with a show that makes fun of the office of the presidency.
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Armando Ianucci’s Veep transports the political scheming of The Thick Of It across the Atlantic. Barry Didcock reports
As their smartphones chirrup and the same caller name comes up, they turn to each other and ask: "How does he do that?"
Right now I'm wondering the same thing about Iannucci himself: the Glasgow-born writer seems to be tweeting from the back of a London taxi at the same time as he's talking to me on his phone. Adding to the real-time strangeness of the moment is the fact my computer is also showing tweets from Alastair Campbell, widely viewed as the model for the potty-mouthed Tucker. The former spin-doctor is moaning about having to write his own jokes for the edition of Have I Got News For You? he has just finished recording.
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