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Armando Iannucci – Writer and director

Stephen Sackur speaks to Armando Ianucci, hugely successful comedy writer and director. Is it appropriate to laugh at Covid-19, or at racial discrimination?

It's the job of the professional satirist to find the funny and expose the absurd in humanity's most serious endeavours. But are there times when satire just doesn't work, and is now one of them? Should we be laughing at Covid-19, at racial discrimination? Stephen Sackur speaks to Armando Ianucci, hugely successful writer and director of comedy on TV and film. Is there ever a bad time and place to be funny?

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Tue 30 Jun 202020:30
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PresenterStephen Sackur
Interviewed GuestArmando Iannucci

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