

The Armando Iannucci Shows
2001 · Channel 4 · 30 min · 1 season
S01E08 · Imagination
Fri, 19 Oct, 7:30 am
Armando looks at our imagination. He taunts animals at the zoo with reminders of how much better humans are than them, and encourages us to be more imaginative with some profane gardening.
About
Armando's comic outlook on life is explored by specific themes relating to human nature in a series of surreal sketches and monologues.
Episodes
- E01
Work
Fri, 31 Aug· 30 minArmando worries about what other people think about him. He is convinced people in aeroplanes are looking down and laughing at his inability to kick a ball.
- E02
Life
Fri, 7 Sept· 30 minArmando examines people's feelings about work... a woman wakes up screaming when she realises she spends her working life designing bacon packaging.
- E03
Mortality
Fri, 14 Sept· 30 minArmando looks at morality and tries to find out how to be good. A church group shows him how to hose beggars off the streets. A Kenyan village launches a charity appeal for British theatre.
- E04
Communcation
Fri, 21 Sept· 30 minArmando's comic probe looks at communication and he worries we've all run out of things to say. The country's restaurants are full of middle-aged couples who don't speak to each other.
- E05
The Past
Fri, 28 Sept· 30 minArmando looks at time passing and admires people who keep the past alive, while Hugh delivers a surreal monologue about what things were like in the old days.
- E06
Neighbours
Fri, 5 Oct· 30 minArmando wants to know what his neighbours are really like. He reflects on how we treat strangers. A woman has all her dresses stolen, and finds Danni Behr and Eddie Izzard wearing them.
- E07
Reality
Fri, 12 Oct· 30 minArmando wants to know what his neighbours are really like. He reflects on how we treat strangers. A woman has all her dresses stolen, and finds Danni Behr and Eddie Izzard wearing them.
- E08
Imagination
Fri, 19 Oct· 30 minArmando looks at our imagination. He taunts animals at the zoo with reminders of how much better humans are than them, and encourages us to be more imaginative with some profane gardening.
Cast

Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci







