Now, he turns his gaze to Soviet Russia with his new film The Death of Stalin, gathering round a supreme cast of acting greats to adapt Fabien Nury’s graphic novel of the same name.
The Death of Stalin will screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, before hitting UK cinemas on 20 October.
Armando Iannucci has reached the peaks of political satire with the likes of The Thick of It, In the Loop, and Veep.
So, expect similar levels of intense cursing and cutting insults in The Death of Stalin.