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The Audacity of Hype: Bewilderment, Sleaze and Other Tales of the 21st Century
Armando Iannucci
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Description for The Audacity of Hype: Bewilderment, Sleaze and Other Tales of the 21st Century
Paperback. * A collection of wildly inventive stories, strange musings and insane rants from Armando Iannucci, one of Britain's foremost satirical comedy writers Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: APF; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 348.
In THE AUDACITY OF HYPE, Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. THE AUDACITY OF HYPE brings together his views on diverse subjects, ranging from wickedly funny pen portraits of the sometimes loveable, usually despicable chumps who like to think of themselves as our political elite, and their bonkers schemes to save the world that are in fact likely to do us more harm than a pile of witches, to WMD, disaster movies, the pitfalls of 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' and the high and mighty rhetoric ... Read more
In THE AUDACITY OF HYPE, Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. THE AUDACITY OF HYPE brings together his views on diverse subjects, ranging from wickedly funny pen portraits of the sometimes loveable, usually despicable chumps who like to think of themselves as our political elite, and their bonkers schemes to save the world that are in fact likely to do us more harm than a pile of witches, to WMD, disaster movies, the pitfalls of 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' and the high and mighty rhetoric ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
348g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408701973
SKU
V9781408701973
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Ref
99-10
About Armando Iannucci
One of Britain's most celebrated comedy writers and producers, Armando Iannucci is a creator of The Day Today, Alan Partridge, The Saturday Night Armistice and The Thick of It. He has produced many TV and radio programmes, including On the Hour and The Mary Whitehouse Experience.
Reviews for The Audacity of Hype: Bewilderment, Sleaze and Other Tales of the 21st Century
'A genuinely hilarious non-stop crack-up-fest that only the comatose and the dead won't enjoy
DAZED & CONFUSED
'It's a tempestuous collection of philosophical musings and rants... Less of a toilet book than a lavatorial bible
WORD
'Since Beachcomber and Myles na Gopaleen, we have needed another newspaper columnist whose manic humour can do ... Read more