‘One Of The Most Influential Comedy Minds In The English-Speaking World’ (And Most Americans Have Never Heard Of Him)

That would be the prolific Scottish writer-director-producer Armando Ianucci, creator of the new political satire In the Loop (and its BBC-TV progenitor, The Thick of It) and the man who blazed a path for, among others, Jon Stewart, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Colbert, Sacha Baron Cohen and Wag the Dog.