Armando Iannucci
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Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
That doesn't sound great either, does it?
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
He just stays at the house all the time.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
He lives next door, but he comes in here and plays our games and then expects to go out with us in the evening.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
But I was very much aware that I was not what my mum used to call the with it people.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
I wasn't one of the with it people.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
I represented the elderly, and I was quite happy to lean into that.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
On Veep, I gave him one of his first TV appearances, actually.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
We cast him in an episode of Veep.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
He was playing a statistician in the White House.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
For, I think, season two, opening episode of season two.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
And he was very funny.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
Very, very deadpan.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
I mean, he didn't look, you know.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
He wasn't gigantic at that point.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
He looked more like his voice.
Taskmaster The Podcast
Armando Iannucci - Series 21 Ep.2
And he was very funny.