How do you follow a massive film with a fantastic and well-informed guest? Do another one straight away! This week we are joined by the brilliant TV writer, journalist, podcaster, and comedian Mollie Goodfellow to talk about one of the greatest sitcoms of the 21st century, The Thick of It, and the film it spawned, In The Loop.

Make sure young ears are out of shot because this is a sweary one… and that’s just Rob and Guy’s thoughts on Alistair Campbell! We look at Armando Iannucci’s magnum opus as the man behind so many enduring TV comedy classics of the 90s. With inspiration from endorsing Yes Minister on Britain’s Best Sitcom in 2004, he took on the political establishment, turning it into his big-screen directorial debut and subsequently hit HBO political comedy Veep.

Not since Michael Rimmer have we tackled satire. We ask if there is any weight to the claim that you can’t make this kind of comedy anymore because of the state of politics today and whether New Labour 2.0 would even allow itself to be sent up in the same way it was in its original iteration’s death knell in the late 00s. 

We hope it’s not too much of an omnishambles as Britcom Goes to the Movies presents In The Loop!

The Thick of It – Insults

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njcuww9Einc

The Thick of It – Tim in Ruislip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xcVov-UL4Q 

The Thick of It – Nicknames 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMNHu9YM-4 

The Thick of It – Blinky Ben Swain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNjevGdB5g

In the Loop – The Culture Show with Alistair Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcFaizGw860 

In The Loop – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJU2qRg5zLI 

In The Loop – Jamie 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jr731Mhxkg

In the Loop – Don’t Call Me English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySD0u4RXXcI

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