Armando Iannucci is a comic writer and producer, who has also directed and performed.
He has extensive TV and radio credits.
His mother was Glaswegian and his father was Italian.
He began his broadcast career as a radio comedy producer at the BBC.
One of the radio shows he worked on was Radio 4's On the Hour, which morphed into BBC2 The Day Today.
Armando Iannucci has often worked with Steve Coogan, for example, on knowing Me Knowing You and on I'm Alan Partridge.
His other credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive on BBC Radio 4 and writing the critically acclaimed The Thick Of It on BBC4.
