On: Why the British Are Better at Satire

[cmdkeen]

Armando Iannucci said he stopped writing The Thick Of It because too many of his mad plot lines were coming true and he was afraid to predict even madder things.

[Doctor_Fegg → cmdkeen]

Conversation with a friend who works at the heart of (UK) Government:

Me: "Is it really like the Thick of It?" Them: "No. It's worse. Much, much worse."