Avenue 5's vision of the future is spooky in the funniest way [Exclusive]

I asked Laurie and Iannucci about this vision of the future, including whether it had always been planned or whether it was something that came naturally to the writer's bedroom. Iannucci said:

"I like to fill in some details as we go along. I have an overall idea of ​​what it must be like on earth. You see a map at one point, and you can see the east coast and west of America has come a considerable distance. We have no more, if only camels and fruit ... "

The fruit makes sense, since we kill all the bees, but what happened to the poor camels? There are so many nods to things like the bizarre death of Richard Branson, an exposed Beatles skull, and a certain "Harry Potter" star having an unfortunate incident (which I'm sure he would laugh at). It's brilliant. NASA still exists, but America is a little different. Laurie recalled, "America is now basically the Louisiana Purchase and nothing else."

The scariest thing is Toto POTUS, the extra President of the United States who takes the form of an Alexa device. Yes, there is more than one. Iannucci explains:

"I think it's in episode 5, we see that Toto POTUS is actually all the adult children of the big tech companies that run the country. But someone told me that's precisely what they want to do. That's precisely what some of them We think should be done. Because they have all our data, why wouldn't they run the country? That's what We reinvented something and then we were like, "Oh my God, it's true."

If that doesn't make you run screaming through the rising sea, nothing will.