Editing Armando Iannucci (section)

== Early life ==
Iannucci was born in [[Glasgow]]. His father, also called Armando, was from [[Naples]], while his mother was [[Italian Scots|born in Glasgow to an Italian family]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dougray|first1=Ginny|title=Armando Iannucci on The Thick of It, Steve Coogan and (not) living the American dream|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-09-08/armando-iannucci-on-the-thick-of-it-steve-coogan-and-not-living-the-american-dream|website=[[Radio Times]]|access-date=28 June 2016|date=8 September 2012|archive-date=21 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821074303/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-09-08/armando-iannucci-on-the-thick-of-it-steve-coogan-and-not-living-the-american-dream|url-status=live}}</ref> Before emigrating, Iannucci's father wrote for an anti-fascist newspaper as a teenager and joined the [[Italian resistance movement|Italian partisans]] at 17.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ft.com/content/65876d80-ba0f-11e1-937b-00144feabdc0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/65876d80-ba0f-11e1-937b-00144feabdc0 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |title=Lunch with the FT: Armando Iannucci |last=Aspden |first=Peter |date=29 June 2012 |website=[[FT.com]]|access-date=4 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15611804.The_life_of_Iannucci__Armando_Iannucci_on_politics__power__his_new_film_The_Death_Of_Stalin_____and_Jacob_Rees_Mogg/ |title=Armando Iannucci on politics, power, his new film The Death Of Stalin ... and Jacob Rees Mogg |last=Jamieson |first=Teddy |date=22 October 2017 |website=[[HeraldScotland.com]] |access-date=4 January 2018 |archive-date=4 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104192629/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15611804.The_life_of_Iannucci__Armando_Iannucci_on_politics__power__his_new_film_The_Death_Of_Stalin_____and_Jacob_Rees_Mogg/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He moved to Scotland in 1950 and ran a pizza factory in [[Springburn]] in Glasgow.<ref name="indy">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/armando-iannucci-how-i-conquered-america-7869871.html|title=Armando Iannucci: 'How I conquered America'|last=Gilbert|first=Gerard|date=23 June 2012|website=[[independent.co.uk]]|access-date=3 January 2018|archive-date=9 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309035952/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/armando-iannucci-how-i-conquered-america-7869871.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Iannucci has two brothers and a sister. His childhood home was near that of actor [[Peter Capaldi]], who went on to play [[Malcolm Tucker]] in ''[[The Thick of It]]'', a TV show created by Iannucci. Although their parents knew each other well, he and Capaldi did not know each other in childhood.<ref name="indy" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/peter-capaldi-people-ask-me-to-tell-them-to--off-2264021.html|title=Peter Capaldi: 'People ask me to tell them to #@*! off'|work=The Independent|date=9 April 2011|access-date=18 November 2018|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925145641/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/peter-capaldi-people-ask-me-to-tell-them-to--off-2264021.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In his teens, Iannucci thought seriously about becoming a [[Roman Catholic]] [[priest]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Armando Iannucci|url=http://www.tatler.com/the-tatler-list/i/armando-ianucci|website=[[Tatler]]|access-date=28 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828085114/http://www.tatler.com/the-tatler-list/i/armando-ianucci|archive-date=28 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Iannucci was educated at St Peter's Primary School, [[St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow]], the [[University of Glasgow]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/22/armanda-iannucci-goodle-facebook-doctor-who |title=Armando Iannucci: 'What the BBC needs to do is to bite the bullet' |work=The Guardian |date=22 March 2015 |access-date=21 November 2018 |archive-date=1 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601112246/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/22/armanda-iannucci-goodle-facebook-doctor-who |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[University College, Oxford]], where he studied [[English literature]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Interview: Armando Iannucci, writer and director|url=http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/interview-armando-iannucci-writer-and-director-1-2374221|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]]|date=25 June 2012|access-date=10 April 2013}}</ref> He was writing a [[Doctor of Philosophy|DPhil]] thesis about 17th-century religious language, with particular reference to [[John Milton|Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', which he abandoned to follow a comedy career.<ref name="prospect" /> He was particularly inspired by the American comedian and filmmaker [[Woody Allen]], later calling him his "all-time comedy hero".<ref>{{cite news | title = Armando Iannucci (interview) | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/iannucci/index2.shtml | work = BBC Comedy | date = 12 December 2004 | access-date = 20 June 2011 | archive-date = 3 November 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121103155807/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/iannucci/index2.shtml | url-status = live }}</ref>