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Armando Iannucci has raised profanity and insults to an art form with three scorching and sidesplitting looks at politics.
First there was the British television series "The Thick of It"; then Oscar-nominated movie "In the Loop," which grew out of the series and took Iannucci and his cast of venom-spewing malcontents to Washington; then the HBO series "Veep," in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a vice president struggling to deal with an impressive title but a serious lack of clout.
Iannucci — part Scottish, part Italian, Oxford educated and a vet of acclaimed British comedies like "The Day Today" and "I’m Alan Partridge" — has a method that mixes careful scripting with improvisation, and a style of humor well-suited for a show about the halls of power.