![]() ![]() The HBO show centers on Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the Vice President of the United States, and her staff and sees Iannucci continuing to mine the political sphere for all its rich comic potential. as he did for those of Westminster - led directly to creating and executive producing Veep. The success of In the Loop - which proved Iannucci had just as much of an ear for the idiocies of Washington, D.C. political relations in the buildup to the Iraq War that not only became a major commercial hit but also earned Iannucci an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. That show then spawned a big-screen spin-off, In the Loop, a riotously funny dissection of U.S/U.K. Recently, though, writer/director/producer Iannucci has become one of the foremost political satirists, starting with the BBC’s astute, dry Parliamentary mockumentary The Thick of It. Armando Iannucci is a veteran of British comedy who came through the ranks with such luminaries as Steve Coogan and Chris Morris, collaborating with them both on the seminal mock news show The Day Today and with Coogan alone on a number of shows featuring Alan Partridge.
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