Comedy in Dark Times, with Armando Iannucci and Helen Lewis

Armando Iannucci is one of Britain’s best-loved comedy writers. The creator of hit shows such as The Thick Of It, Veep and Alan Partridge, Iannucci is renowned for his sharp political satire and parodies of the rich and powerful. His latest project, a West End stage production of Stanley Kubrick’s Oscar-nominated black comedy Dr. Strangelove, focuses on a rogue US general who triggers a nuclear crisis.
In March 2024 Iannucci came to the Intelligence Squared stage where, in conversation with author and journalist Helen Lewis, he discussed the role of satire and comedy in dark times. Can comedy help us cope emotionally with world events such as war and conflict? Does satire still have the power to hold politicians to account? Should we really be laughing at our increasingly unstable and risky world?
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[@ds8457]

Great stuff, love Helen very much and Armando of course is a legend in his own right.

[@thomasscottwilliams6672]

So refreshing to find honesty about politics and with humour on the net without it being a mime, shame more KZbinrs are interested in Marvel movie than these discussions but thank you for this and keep the great content.

[@MrFernanrc]

we can't differentiate between a Marvel Movie and Politics. Each side is playing their part and they are horrible, so horrible, you might vote for the side you never have just to save yourself. One side will take away your social security, but the other will take away your life. The people who fund their campaign and push horrible ideas on us and the more we question them, the more they wonder what planet we come from. New world order that so many politicians have taken about and then said nope, or Bill Gates having a group of people talking about what would happen if we had a virus, what would we do, he says never happened but is on the internet. The avalanche of people coming, along with many sent by plane to rob our homes sounds so refreshing. I was hopping some country would have some empathy and let us move there without charging us an arm and a leg to pay taxes to survive. that's not going to happen, but if we could we would fight back. They tied our hands and the hands of the police and the hands of everyone who could help us.

[@jep1912]

We've got to stick with listening to truths and common sense whilst filtering the noise gets harder and harder.

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

It'll be a great pub quiz question for the future, _who was PM when QE 2 passed away?_ Well there was Johnson that Indian chap Sunak and then Starmer......... 🤔

[@actonman7291]

He is the Mel Brooks of our times.

[@alexduggan68]

I hope Helen has now become a better person. She was just an awful spiteful human being for about ten years. Good to see her mature.

[@jonnybrick7473]

Fun fact: like Johnson, Gove and Cummings, Iannucci went to Oxford. He's just the clown instead of the politician, like David Frost and Richard Curtis before him.

[@basshus1]

First comment 🎉

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Now that you've achieved that ambition, what will you do with the rest of your life?

[@basshus1]

@@SirAntoniousBlock I think I will go to Comoros . Vertical coconut trees 🌴 mind-blowing

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

@@basshus1 Best of luck in your future projects.

[@5starcomment]

Who exhumed Helen after her disastrous Jordan Peterson interview?

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Ah Peterson, the stupid persons idea of a clever person.

[@jeff-gj6en]

Her career has gone from strength to strength whilst Peterson got addicted to drugs and went mental.

[@ds8457]

Click bait and worked for me Helen rocks!

[@thomasscottwilliams6672]

He’s brilliant and she’s barely managing to guide the interview it’s basically his show and he was great but come on Helen, you have someone you admire rather than loathe and is hilarious and as a political columnist at least hold your own

[@hmarley7850]

I found this a hard watch because she was there. I thought it would have been a better format to just let him talk for a half hour. She doesn't realise she's emblematic of the kind of political class (that cant take offence and is swept up into moral trends) that Iannucci criticises so often. Constant consensus doesn't make for very good discussion.