![]() ![]() ![]() Iannucci’s “ The Personal History of David Copperfield” comes across as a bright and jaunty corrective to the dour and stuffy Dickens adaptations that have come before. Iannucci produces some of the wickedest, and most colorful, laughter to be found on (British) television: “I’m Alan Partridge,” “The Thick of It” and, for export, “Veep.” Dickens, on the other hand, has produced a mostly dreary catalog of play-it-straight costume dramas, owing less to the source material than to a modernist bias that looks back to the author’s Victorian milieu and sees it as crude, dark and relatively unenlightened. Armando Iannucci believes that modern (British) comedy owes a considerable debt to Charles Dickens, and he should know. ![]()
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