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Malcolm Tucker was a warning, not a training manual | Armando Iannucci
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14:28Now PlayingWriter and director Armando Iannucci has told Times Radio it's not wrong for comedy to be offensive saying that "if you have a set of beliefs and opinions that can't withstand a joke then you can't really have thought them through all that rigorously."
Speaking to Mariella Frostrup he said:
(To the) people who say, in comedy especially, you've got to be careful not to offend, my response is: what's wrong with being offended? If you have a set of beliefs and opinions that can't withstand a joke then you can't really have thought them through all that rigorously. You've got to be challenged. In a way you can discover how much you value certain things, if you have them challenged, because you're then forced to think exactly why you value things.
After Matt Hancock's sojourn to the Australian jungle, he's also criticised the aspirations of modern politicians:
We've allowed the Prime Minister to become more presidential in a way which wasn't the case 30 or 40 years ago. Then, you encouraged people to go into ministries and be ambitious about having high ambitions for the ministry, and being able to achieve things. But now everything is seen as being a stepping stone to becoming Prime Minister and if you find out at the age of 35, or 40, that you're not going to be Prime Minister, you might as well get out of politics and go into the jungle. That's where we've come and actually there should be an aspiration about being the Minister for Health or the Secretary of State for Education. You should be proud of being asked to run departments like that, but now they're seen as stepping stones.
On ending The Thick of It because of the impact of the Malcolm Tucker character:
Malcolm was meant to be a warning, not a kind of training manual and I think people were going into politics thinking you know, I want to be the next Malcolm Tucker. If you analyse any episode of The Thick of It, something goes slightly wrong. Malcolm appears to try and fix it and makes it worse, then leaves blaming everyone else. That's fundamentally the kind of uber version of an episode of Think of it. I always saw Malcolm as the problem really, not the solution.
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