Armando Iannucci, Public Enemy #2

[tealin]

I've just listened to Armando Iannucci's Lent Talk, in which he said that after the terrorism episode of Time Trumpet he was briefly called the second-most-hated man in America. Does anyone in America know who Armando Iannucci is? Is Time Trumpet even broadcast there? Or is this a totally spurious statistic thrown out for rhetorical purposes?

It's an amusing idea, anyway...

Comments

[floramir.livejournal.com]

Never heard of him; but then, I live under a rock and I'm not exactly up on statistics and I never watch TV so... it could very well be that I SHOULD have heard of him...

I'm also not aware of any 'Time Trumpet' being published over here...

I might sound very stupid, but who's the first-most-hated?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That's what we was wondering, too ... I would guess it's Osama bin Laden but really, second?

Don't worry, I'd never heard of him before listening to Radio 4. Dunno if that's consolation or not as I am hardly representative of the media-savvy populace...

radio geeks

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Tealin, long time reader, first time commenter. (Meant to be a joke, but then what do I know anymore?)

As one radio addict to another, you should definitely look up the radio plays at http://decoderringtheatre.com/
I say this because not only are they a fantastic troupe of Canadian actors, but I desperately want you to draw Jack and Trixie from "Black Jack Justice".

Back on topic, even though I'm a poor and pathetic college student, because I have a political science roommate I'm typically up on recent events, and I've never heard of him.
-Shamora

„Das ist Karfreitagszauber, Herr!“

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

Re: „Das ist Karfreitagszauber, Herr!“

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh, gee, my list is hardly pretentious or deeply liturgical ... I give up fiction for Lent so it's mainly non-fiction I haven't gotten around to reading throughout the year. This year I've got Citizens by Simon Schama, about the French Revolution, which I started last year but had work to contend with so never finished; The God Particle by a Mr Lederman, on theoretical physics, which I bought last summer; and my annual reading of I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Réne Girard, one of the handful of books I can honestly say has quite literally changed my life. That reminds me, I should change my icon...

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[http://users.livejournal.com/__lys_fleurx__/]

i am american and I have no idea who in the world that is.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

No! Effing! Clue!

But Donna Shalala is close to the top of MY list of most hated men people men in America.

Oh the traffic jam she and her old buddies, Billy and Al caused yesterday afternoon!!!

[infiniteviking]

I'm American, and I never heard of him in my life. Never heard of Time Trumpet either.