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1. www.esquire.com › uk › cultureArmando Iannucci on 'The Day Today', 30 Years Later - Esquire

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   Jan 19, 2024 · Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris couldn’t find a parking space. It was August 1991, and Iannucci had invited Morris over to London from Bristol to talk about working together on a...

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3. www.denofgeek.com › tv › what-the-day-today-gotWhat The Day Today Got (Depressingly) Right | Den of Geek

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   Jan 22, 2024 · Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’ TV translation of their On the Hour BBC Radio 4 series parodied the gravely serious, scare-mongering, hyperbolic news style of the early 1990s with...

4. www.telegraph.co.uk › tv › 0The Day Today: 10 sketches they wouldn't get away with now

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   Jan 19, 2024 · It’s 30 years since the BBC2 debut of Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci’s The Day Today, the surrealist, scathing satire that delivered “news from telly to belly”.

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5. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › articlesThe Day Today: The show that changed British comedy forever

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   Chris Morris took the concepts originated on The Day Today even further with Brass Eye, before beginning a film directing career. Iannucci made The Thick of It and Veep.

6. inews.co.uk › culture › televisionThe Day Today at 25: how the news satire could have been made ...

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   Jan 17, 2019 · But revisiting Chris Morris‘ sharp-as-a-tack spoof today, the lines somehow blur. In this age of fake news and powerful PR, it’s increasingly difficult to judge what’s real and what’s not.

7. thequietus.com › culture › televisionOn The Hour: Parting The Beef Curtains Of News | The Quietus

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   Aug 12, 2009 · As well as launching the careers of Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris — arguably the two most important homegrown comic writers of the past twenty years — the spoof news show brought together a stellar company of scribes whose subsequent work drew plaudits throughout the nineties and beyond.

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   What happened between Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci?

   • “Nervous Breakdown! Nervous Breakdown!”: Armando Iannucci on 'The Day Today', 30 Years Later Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris couldn’t find a parking space. It was August 1991, and Iannucci had invited Morris over to London from Bristol to talk about working together on a spoof radio news show Iannucci was producing.

   Armando Iannucci on 'The Day Today', 30 Years Later - Esquire

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   Why did Iannucci invite Morris to London?

   • It was August 1991, and Iannucci had invited Morris over to London from Bristol to talk about working together on a spoof radio news show Iannucci was producing. Morris had ditched his ancient Mercedes outside the Radio 1 building and needed to shift it before he got a ticket, and couldn’t find anywhere else.

   Armando Iannucci on 'The Day Today', 30 Years Later - Esquire

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   Who is Chris Morris on 'the hour'?

   • Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series On The Hour, the show lampooned the bombastic nature of news in the age of cable TV featuring a pompous Paxman-esque anchor (called, and played by, Chris Morris), an array of strangely monikered correspondents (Collately Sisters, Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan) and overtly over the top music and graphics.

   The Day Today: The show that changed British comedy forever

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9. www.artofthetitle.com › title › the-day-todayThe Day Today (1994) — Art of the Title

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   Created by Chris Morris (Brass Eye) and Armando Iannucci (Veep), The Day Today was the television spin-off of BBC Radio’s current affairs spoof On The Hour, also from Morris and Iannucci. The show, which only lasted six episodes, featured a stable of up-and-coming British comedy talent in the guise of mock anchors and correspondents ...