Armando Iannucci is a Scottish comedian, writer, director, performer and radio producer.

Armando Iannucci is a Scottish comedian, writer, director, performer and radio producer.

Armando started out in the early 1990s as the producer of On the Hour and The Day Today. He received critical acclaim for his work as a writer and producer, and for first bringing together such comics as Chris Morris, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Steve Coogan. Following The Day Today, they all worked on separate projects, creating a new brand of satirical comedy with shows like Brass Eye, Blue Jam, the Chris Morris Music Show; Fist of Fun, This Morning With Richard Not Judy, and On the Hour.

Despite his involvement in all aspects of British comedy, Armando has remained relatively unknown amongst the British public. His recent projects include Smokehammer, the short-lived topical satire Gash, as well as several programmes for BBC Radio 3.

In 1997, Armando wrote a book entitled Facts and Fancies, compiling articles from his newspaper columns. A little-known radio series called Scraps With Iannucci followed in 1998.

Armando's other work includes: The Mary Whitehouse Experience; The Thick of It; Alan Partridge and Time Trumpet amongst many others.

He has won two Sony Radio Awards and three British Comedy Awards. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

In January 2006 Armando took the post of News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at the University of Oxford, where he has delivered a series of four lectures under the title British Comedy - Dead Or Alive?, saying in his introduction to the series that "It used to be that you went to Oxford to get into comedy. Now you get into comedy to go to Oxford".

In January 2009, his first feature film In the Loop, in the style of The Thick of It, was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film has been applauded by critics, both in Britain and the US. The film secured the eighth highest placing in the UK box office in its opening week.