Armando Iannucci
Screenplay writer
The Scottish satirist has balanced performing and producing during his
career, but latterly has spent more time behind the screen on American
political satire Veep, which swiftly followed the success of its UK
cousin, The Thick Of It (with fewer expletives). As someone who has
worked with Stewart Lee, Steve Coogan and Chris Morris, Iannucci

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Private Eye, editor
A star of the BBC’s Have I Got News For You for nearly a quarter of a
century, but his commitment to satire goes back even further. He worked
for Private Eye straight after Oxford and has been editor since 1986.
Proved he has lost none of his edge with the “Woman Has Baby” cover,

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NEW ENTRY
Anyone who has ever dealt with PR companies could only watch Hynes’s
pin-point portrayal of Siobhan Sharpe in Olympic satire Twenty Twelve
and BBC mockumentary W1A through their fingers, such was its painful
accuracy. The award-winning star who first broke through alongside

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NEW ENTRY
The impressionist who gave the world Loadsamoney back in the Eighties
returned to form in 2014 with his satirical tribute to BBC2 with Paul
Whitehouse, Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos. Enfield’s impression of
Simon Schama was so pin-sharp it would not be a surprise if he starts

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become one of television’s most important figures, as a critic in his
pithy Guardian columns, as a writer with his dystopian Black Mirror
satires and as a comedic commentator on C4’s 10 O’Clock Show and BBC2’s
Weekly Wipe. Always entertaining, invariably provocative, a welcome bit
of grit in the wheels of the smooth world of showbiz.