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Now 30 years old, Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’ satirical news comedy was brilliant, prescient nonsense.

To celebrate the big birthday, we spoke to the cult shows creator about its unlikely success

30 years on, Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci’s superb send-up of 24-hour news is still as sharp as ever. Here are its greatest moments

Pandemonium is a new satire about the Covid nightmare that uses the quaint style of the Elizabethan masque. Armando Iannucci’s play opens with Paul Chahidi as Shakespeare introducing a troupe of players who all speak in rhyming couplets. A golden wig descends like a signal from on high and Shakespeare transforms himself into the ‘World

The star of ‘Rye Lane’ and ‘Industry’ was reluctant at first to take the lead role in the BBC adaptation of ‘Murder Is Easy’. He tells Ellie Harrison why he changed his mind, how the drama breaks the mould and why being excluded from school didn’t define him

Here’s what looks most appetizing amid the classics and contemporary comfort fare

Iannucci and Marber deliver a mock-heroic poem in Shakespearean dress that rips through the Johnsonian years with caustic wit

Blistering satire sees Armando Iannucci recast the Boris Johnson years as a Shakespearean tragi-comedy

Armando Iannucci, the writer who gave us The Thick of It, has decided to create his chronicle of the plague years, packaged period-style as “a scornful account”

Patrick Marber’s staging of Armando Iannucci’s new satire runs until 6 January