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From The Vicar of Dibley to Father Ted , the calling of the cloth has produced comedy gold.

Ronnie Corbett, comedian: 'I claim not to like chardonnay, but curiously my current favourite white is just that, the ripe, buttery and smooth 2007 Christophe Cordier Vire-Clesse Vieilles Vignes ' Photo: GRAHAM JEPSON James Wilby, actor: 'I dont even try to drink anything other than bordeaux.

BBC has commissioned a new comedy series called Handle With Prayer , it has been announced.

Peter Needham, left, as Touchstone in Cheek by Jowl's 1991-94 production of As You Like It, with Richard Cant as Audrey.

Ten lucky readers of The Local can now win tickets to watch the critically acclaimed Armando Iannucci satire In the Loop.

Some day the historians will figure out exactly who got us into the current war in Iraq and why.

Mimi Kennedy plays the U.S. assistant secretary for diplomacy, and James Gandolfini is a Pentagon-based general and her former lover in the Armando Iannucci satire, In the Loop.

Directed by Armando Iannucci. Written by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche.

Directed by Armando Iannucci. Written by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche.

If screenwriters gene-spliced "Wag the Dog" with "The West Wing" and set it in the context of Anglo-American relations, the result would be Armando Ianucci's "In the Loop," a scabrously funny look at the cutthroat game of statecraft.

In the Loop Directed by Armando Iannucci. Written by Iannucci and Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Ian Martin and Tony Roche.

Peter Capaldi and Chris Addison in "In the Loop." July 24, 2009 The English actor Tom Hollander does a lot with a little: He's not what anyone would call a tall, dashing figure, particularly considering that he's most often called upon to portray annoying little men.

It follows politicos on both sides of the Atlantic who are clueless, scheming, inept, self-serving or all of the above.

Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "In the Loop" - Earlier this summer, we had "The Hurt Locker," by far the best drama yet about the Iraq war.

In the Loop is an uncommonly funny political satire that blends Dr. Strangelove with Spinal Tap for the Iraq war era.

SEX, drugs and scandal. If the term Pre-Raphaelite makes you think of chocolate boxes sporting flame-haired beauties, then the new six-part, bodice-ripping BBC drama Desperate Romantics might make you reconsider.

The IFC Center will offer nine U.S. theatrical preems during its July-September slate.

Hey folks, Harry here... up on the 52nd Floor in a super suite at the PALMS casino.

"In the Loop" is a satire of Strangelovian proportions that is both inspired and crass, often at the same time.