Armando Iannucci (The Death Of Stalin / In The Loop / Veep) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Armando Iannucci, originally episode 174 from 2017-10-24.
Original writeup below:
Responsible for an insane amount of some of the greatest UK comedy since the 90's, including the writing and production of 'The Day Today' which spawned Alan Partridge and the Partridge multiverse, 'The Thick Of It', 'Time Trumpet', and US based 'Veep', Armando is clearly a titan of the game. With his new production 'The Death Of Stalin' (in cinemas NOW!), he's been grinding it out on the media promo run, but is sharp as a katana as he sits down with Pip for a nice long chat covering all the necessary bases and loads more that you'd hope to hear about, including said promo run grind and the madness of it all, especially seeing your own film countless times, being mindful of not using the victims of the subject of his film for comedy and finding that material from many various other sources, social media and how the echo chamber is reinforced and debate is fading, how the film draws parallels with today's US presidency even though it was filmed months before Trump's election win, and how to successfully wrangle an all star cast in order to promote efficiency on set. Tons more obviously but yeah, super entertaining and a must for Armando fans and those who appreciate the craft of writing and production. Get into it!
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| 0:00.0 | Immo Clue, |
| 0:00.9 | immo clue, it's Friday, it's rewind time, you know what it is. |
| 0:06.3 | Hope you're having a lovely week. |
| 0:07.6 | Hope you enjoyed the Wednesday episode. |
| 0:10.2 | But here we are, we're a rewind from back in 2017. |
| 0:14.6 | When I was joined by a living legend, Armando I Anucci. |
| 0:19.3 | Imagine how nervous I was. |
| 0:25.3 | Amando is in some way involved with most of the shows that have shaped my interest and love of comedy. Interest in and love of comedy. So I was |
| 0:33.4 | delighted to get to sit down with Amando in Ayanucci, who interestingly has made a few |
| 0:40.2 | projects with a guy called Peter Fellows, who I've just done a short film with, in which I play |
| 0:48.7 | a dog. I mean, I'm voicing a dog. I'm not dressed up as a dog, but I'm the voice of a dog. |
| 0:55.3 | It's got another previous podcast guest, Amma Chudha Patel. I didn't forget his name. I've got a stutter. I know I'm a, I love Amma. |
| 1:05.4 | It's called The Breakdown of a Toxic Relationship, as told by Fluffmeister, a poodle of questionable heritage. |
| 1:11.0 | A punchy name. |
| 1:12.4 | But yeah, Peter worked on Avenue 5, on the death of Stalin, on VEP, on loads of stuff. |
| 1:20.2 | So yeah, it was cool to get to work with Peter. |
| 1:22.9 | Anyway, I'm not here to talk about Peter. |
| 1:24.6 | For God to say, leave it, Peter. |
| 1:26.4 | This is the Rewind with |
| 1:27.7 | Amanda Ianucci. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed being involved in the conversation. |
| 1:32.9 | Let's go. This piece of fiction is the intro to the structure. This piece of fiction is the intro to the station. |
| 1:49.8 | So, I'm rolling. |
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