Jesse Armstrong

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Jesse Armstrong is one of the co-creators (with Sam Bain) of Channel 4's Peep Show. He also co-wrote the BBC Four comedy The Thick of It and was one of the writers on series 1 and 2 of the BBC Radio 4 sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound (2003 & 2005) and the BBC Two sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look. He also wrote with Bain for the film Magicians, which also stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb, the main actors of Peep Show, with whom Armstrong and Bain have worked on many projects.

Peep Show won a BAFTA for best Situation Comedy in 2008.

He comes from Oswestry in Shropshire, England.

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• Ideas Factory interview with Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong