Armando Iannucci is the King of the Insult. Anyone who’s seen “The Thick of It” or In the Loop, and learned to love Malcolm Tucker’s amazing array of demoralizing putdowns, will never forget where they were the first time they heard, “You couldn’t organize a bum rape in the barracks.” Iannucci’s “Veep,” his first American series, has been dishing out some amazingly complex insults in its freshman season, too.
In honor of its finale this Sunday on HBO, here are my 25 favorite.
