Creator Jesse Armstrong may have worked as a comedy writer on British sitcoms, including Veep creator Armando Iannucci's In the Thick Of It and Peep Show, but he refuses to classify his HBO series about a dysfunctional media family. "No, I’m not going to solve that," he says with a laugh. "No way. I’m glad it’s a matter for debate. If the show had a voice, it would refuse to say. We’re not unaware of it. In the writer’s room, we spend a good deal of time talking about what’s funny. The shows that I love — like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad — could also be described as comedies in a way. And not every plotline that comes out of a comedic place necessarily expresses itself in scenes that are going to make you laugh loads. But there’s usually an energy — a twist — to the approach which you might call comic."
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