Armando Iannucci has given a major speech claiming comedy is becoming vitally important because politicians and the media are failing to treat anything seriously.

“I think we sometimes see comedy as an inferior art form. This irks me. Comedy allows the imagination to be at its most revolutionary. Because, when you treat something comically, you can do anything. You can distort or exaggerate, you can break out of the form, you can be as real or as unrealistic as you like.”

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