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As told to Rich Pelley

Armando Iannucci: ‘Everything since 2016 has been a wind-up’

Armando Iannucci Alan Partridge Boris Johnson Scotland
Armando Iannucci.
‘I don’t want to stick up a notice that says: “Casting for David Copperfield, whites only” because that strikes me as very inefficient’ … Armando Iannucci. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer

How bored are you with people asking how bored you are with people asking if reality has become impossible to satirise? ritasueandbob

I’m extremely bored. But I don’t think it has. A lot of people have forgotten that life is real. It’s not something you can invent and occasionally rewrite. Life is something you’re stuck with, to deal with head on and not hide from.

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