Round 4: Tossup 10

In a film by this director, two people receiving phone calls from the same man at the same time wonder how that’s possible, before a cut to the man holding two phones to his ears. In that film by this director, a military man decides he should stop comparing himself to Gore Vidal upon learning that Vidal was gay. This director created a character who claims that his home country has the saying “difficult difficult lemon difficult.” In a 2009 film by this director that spins off a (*) TV series, a furor around the PWPPIP (“PWIP-pip”) report erupts after a politician claims that war is “unforeseeable,” much to the chagrin of a foulmouthed advisor (10[1])based on Alastair Campbell. In this director’s best-known film, (10[1])Jason Isaacs uses a Yorkshire accent to portray Georgy Zhukov. For 10 points, name this Scottish satirist who created The Thick of It and directed In the Loop and The Death of Stalin. ■END■

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