What The Day Today Got (Depressingly) Right
Now 30 years old, Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’ satirical news comedy was brilliant, prescient nonsense.
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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 show's 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