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  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Fremantle Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Sep 2006
  • Run Time: 196 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000GUK3NI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,581 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Modern life is rubbish. Nobody talks to each other, work is dull and we are made to feel inadequate by everyone and everything around us. Features the complete series of comedy genius Ianucci's sketch shows.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Completely overlooked - where is the justice? , 11 Jul 2007
By C. Pitt "Muncher" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Like most people I think I was out when this was on first time round (I assume it was put in the graveyard slot) so brought this on faith based on his previous work. I was not disappointed! There are moments of pure genius in this series and Armando Iannucci's delivery is fantastically dry. You get a real sense of a great comedic mind at work finding humour in everyday life and then transferring that into some of the most ridiculous situations imaginable and blowing it out of all proportions. If like me you missed this the first time round then make sure your mistakes are not repeated! However don't expect the controversy or shock value of his works with Chris Morris, the humour here is far more subtle but no less amusing.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The good bits are very good indeed, 21 Dec 2006
Armando Iannucci is well known for his role in some of the best recent British comedy (Alan Partridge, The Thick Of It etc) but a lot of people seem to have missed this series. That's a shame as when he does his own stuff it's often brilliant, with a bit of a surreal edge. I watched most of the series when it was on telly and some bits stuck in my head for years so I was really pleased when it came out on DVD.

Each of the episodes is sposed to be on a particular theme, but you don't really need to know that! What is important is that some of the stuff in this series is genius. A common themes is people basically being rubbish and/or naff. The first episode has two brilliant bits - the witty bloke at a dinner party being literally fed his funny lines, and the 'tw*ts' bit (especially the bloke singing his song about Princess Anne's birthday). Other highlights are Armando The Great Adult, and when he does a comedy slot at the end of a conference using powerpoint slides to get across his jokes.

Sometimes - a bit like his Observer column! - the joke doesn't quite work or it goes on too long. So it's definitely a hit & miss DVD. But the best stuff is so good it's worth ploughing through to get to. And the extras are pretty good too - the commentaries are pretty funny. One word of warning - if you don't want to know the result of the Arsenal-Barcelona Champions League final don't listen to the commentaries...
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Butter brings me out in ghosts., 9 Nov 2006
By P. Sturges "Ponder" (Essex) - See all my reviews
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Underrated, undershown, and finally released genious. There is no-one quite like Armando in the comedy world, and although the more recent 'Time Trumpet' was a little disapointing, don't let that put you off buying this masterpiece. Highlights include the East End Thug being deployed to solve fairly mundane problems, such as threatening a washing machine into working, Lucar the barber, and his bizarre tales of clangers and screaming fire, and the revelation that everyone with knowledge is being tipped off, either via bits of paper in their pies, or earpieces spewing football trivia.

Armando, we applaud you.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars TV Un-Reality Shows
Iannucci's persona in the series is UK's version of a Woody Allen narrator - a physically insignificant, neurotic, socially inept victim of soundbyte culture relieving himself of... Read more
Published 3 months ago by M. I. R. Clarke

5.0 out of 5 stars This changed my brain
Armando Ianucci is responsible for so much excellent comedy. This is hilarious. I find myself rationalising day to day affairs in a different way since watching this. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mr. D. P. Carter

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, intelligent comedy
The Armando Iannucci Shows [2001]

Hadn't seen it on the TV, just bought it because it was Armando Ianucci. Read more
Published 9 months ago by LazyRunner

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny. Tasty. Funny and tasty.
Wonderful crunchy surreal comedy bits mixed into a creamy silly sauce makes this one of the best DVDs you'll taste. Well Done Mr Iannucci!
Published 10 months ago by Indulis Bernsteins

5.0 out of 5 stars The best TV show ever
I watched this show on its initial run, taping it as it went along. Over the next few years there was rarely a that month went by where I didn't watch an episode. Read more
Published 17 months ago by John Reynolds

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Partridge, The Day Today and Friday Night Armistice put together
I can't really heap enough praise on this dvd. It's fairly surreal, even by Iannucci's standards, and when I first watched it on TV it took me a few episodes to really get into... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Ian Shine

5.0 out of 5 stars "Man - your horse is so confused!"
I rewatched this earlier this week and was reminded of what a work of genius it is! So underrated. Every episode has so many clever and beautiful things in it. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2007 by beedekka

4.0 out of 5 stars Slow Burning Genius
For any Armando Ianucci fans, this is a must have DVD.

You don't always get to see much of our man Armando, he writes on some of the best loved and well known of... Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2007 by DangermouseZilla

5.0 out of 5 stars A comedy masterpiece!
The Armando Iannucci Shows is, quite simply, a comedic masterpiece - a truly comedy monument which deserves to be discovered and loved. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2007 by Max Bialystock Jr.

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this DVD
Can't believe I missed it the first time around, but thank god I finally found it.. It's genius stuff, brilliantly observed and acted, a little surreal at times, but always funny... Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2007 by Lisa H

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