Posted on 05/08/2009 6:57:11 AM PDT by Schnucki
Comedian Armando Iannucci got past security guards at the US State department in Washington with a pass which "could have been produced by a child", in what he described as "probably international espionage".
Mr Iannucci was researching his latest film, the US-British political drama 'In the Loop', when he visited the department's headquarters in the Foggy Bottom neighbourhood of the US political capital.
The identification he had with him was an amateurish BBC pass with his face show by a print out of a picture of him from the internet.
He flashed the card at the guards in the main reception of the building, said he had an appointment and was waved through.
The comedian then spent an hour walking around the building taking photographs, which were later used to help with the set designs for the film.
The writer, who also created political satire-cum-farce The Thick Of It for BBC4, said: "I had a terrible, amateur BBC identity pass, with basically my face printed off Google and my name under it.
"A child could have produced it in 20 seconds. I wandered up to the front reception of the State department and said 'BBC. I'm here for the 12. 30.'
"They showed me in. I spent an hour wandering round the building with my camera taking photos for our designer.
"Part of me thought it was fun, another part thought it was probably international espionage."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
hillary is a joke, right?
Well, for at least an hour we had someone competent in the state department.
A Borat rip-off?
It's not like he's a right wing extremist looking to distribute copies of the Constitution.
No, its a political satire rather than a grossout comedy. Its pretty good actually, you should see it...
“hillary is a joke, right?”
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The joke’s on America and the punchline is stupid.
And another juvenile comedian snakes into the US Senate.
And kill a bunch of US commies? What about the building itself, man?
I will vouch that what he does say about the intelligence of the average State Dept worker. It is not hard to get jobs there if you’re a drone. I had to spend a couple days there and was not impressed at all.
>Well, for at least an hour we had someone competent in the state department.
LOL - It looks that way.
The real comedian here is the security of the State Department. NOW THAT’S A JOKE!
Totally appropriate as it is a pit of snakes anyway.
They probably booted Iannucci for being embarrassingly over-qualified.
“Hey, who let the pro-American in here???”
This is a part of the new more transparent government that Bambi promised. Just walk on in and take pictures.
Hillary’s fault
“The most transparent Administration in history...”
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