Idea of the Week: The Armando Iannucci Shows
February 10th 2025 | Sketch Comedy
Dearest Being,
The Idea of the Week is live:
Potential Ways Into This Idea:
Lynchian Existentialist Sketch Show.
Masterclass in Cinematic Comedy.
Comedy Through Everyday Philosophy.
Comedy as Conceptual Art.
Pure Artistic Expression.
IDEA | SKETCH COMEDY
What do you find funny? Do you only know it when you see it? Does it change? Is it often stuff that makes you laugh out loud? Or is it mostly just a silent understanding, a connection formed between two opposing concepts?
This is a surreal sketch show unlike any other. Armando Iannucci, the mind behind such comedy vehicles as Alan Partridge, Veep, The Death of Stalin, and The Thick of It, confronts the human existence in a profoundly singular way.
Each of the eight episodes acts as a philosophical deconstruction of one core theme. These include: Perception, Work, Communication, Imagination, Time, People, Morality, and Reality.
These deep existential topics lend a mystical and profound energy to the show, and force one to see the absurdity of life in a rather unnerving way.
This isn’t even really a sketch show. It’s all one cohesive vision. A singular meditation on universal meaning from one Being’s mind to another. It’s a comedic lecture on life. A kind of David Attenborough style tour through the emotional reality of enduring the abstract and inane mundanity of human society.
This is philosophy, anthropology and art, all fused together by humour.
Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci is a mind that searches for meaning through specific and existential senses of humour.
NS Channels
Nothing Serious Channels is a cosmic television provider. Tune in to its various stations and absorb visual ideas in the form of films, lectures, seminars, comedy sketches, interviews…
The aim with NS Channels, much like NS Radio, is to offer Beings a place of curated media. There and then gone. The magic anticipated randomness of turning on the television and absorbing something new and unexpected.