Episode 042: The Death of Stalin

Over the past decade, Armando Iannucci has delivered some of the sharpest, most bitter political comedy we've ever seen - and from his teardown of the Blair government in The Thick of It , to his Oscar nominated script for In the Loop , to HBO's Julia Louis Dreyfuss vehicle Veep , his writing has always been topical and on-point.But ironically, his most relevant work yet takes place in 1953, with the grim-larious historical satire The Death of Stalin , which follows the panicked backstabbing of Stalin's idiotic inner circle as they all jockey for position in a government on the verge of collapse. Sound familiar? MG agrees! #MartiniGiant