Tony Roche (writer)

Tony Roche is an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated television, radio and film comedy writer and producer, best known as one of the members of the writing team behind the HBO comedy Veep, the award-winning BBC Television series The Thick of It and its film spin-off In the Loop.

He is credited with inventing the word omnishambles, which was named 2012 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary.

After graduating from Warwick University with a degree in English, Roche became a stand-up comedian using material from a magazine he had produced in his final year. He was spotted at one of his stand-up comedy shows and asked to write jokes and topical sketches for radio.

Roche's first radio assignment was writing for The Alan Davies Show radio programme and for John Shuttleworth on BBC Radio 4. He created the series World of Pub for BBC Radio, and later adapted it for television. He also worked on the radio series The Sunday Format,

Working with the creator of The Sunday Format, John Morton, Roche co-created its television equivalent Broken News. After making his move to television, Roche joined the writing team for Armando Iannucci's Gash, a satirical TV comedy for Channel 4. He later contributed to The Thick of It, Iannucci's political satire set in the fictional government Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship. The first series debuted on the BBC in 2005, and became a critical success. Roche wrote for all four series of the programme, as well as its spin-off film In the Loop, which was nominated for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay).

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