Christopher Funk is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known as a member of the Portland, Oregon, indie rock band The Decemberists.
 He plays guitar, pedal steel, piano, violin, dobro, hurdy-gurdy, mandolin, saxophone, the theremin and many other instruments.
 According to Colin Meloy, as stated at the Pilgrimage Festival in Franklin, TN on September 27, 2015, Funk was originally given the middle name "Ryman" but a clerical error on his birth certificate resulted in his middle name being recorded as "Lyman."
In several cultures, people's names usually include one or more names in addition to the portion that is usually considered adequate to identify them.
 In a number of cultures where a given name is expected to precede the surname, such a name is likely to be placed after the given name and before the surname, and thus called a middle name.
 In English-speaking American culture, that term is often applied (arguably mistakenly) to names, occupying that position, even if the bearer would insist that that name is being mistakenly called a "middle name", and is actually (to mention several types of atypical cases):
Milhouse Mussolini van Houten is a fictional character featured in the animated television series "The Simpsons", voiced by Pamela Hayden, and created by Matt Groening who named the character after President Richard Nixon's middle name.
 Later in the series, it is revealed that Milhouse's middle name is "Mussolini."
Barend or (somewhat dated spelling) Barent is a Dutch male given name and occasional middle name.
 As of 2014, there are over than 4,000 men in the Netherlands with this as their first name, and nearly 3,000 with it as their middle name.
 It was likely derived from Bernard.
 Notable people with the name include:
Jeff Strabone is a Brooklyn-based American scholar, political activist and civic leader.
 In 2016, his website "directelection.org" listed the names and addresses of members of the U.S. Electoral College, and he urged people to write to electors to ask them not to vote for president-elect Donald Trump, an effort which brought him national attention.
 As a civic leader in Brooklyn, he has been active in promoting theatre preservation, building codes and housing issues, hospital preservation, and traffic flow.
 He has been a leader of Brooklyn's Cobble Hill Association, a neighborhood preservation group.
 He is the co-founder and chairman of the New Brooklyn Theatre.
 In 2008, he changed his middle name to "Hussein" as a show of solidarity with then presidential candidate Barack Obama, who was running for the office of president, and who had been criticized for his Muslim-sounding middle name.
 He is an associate professor of English and teaches British and African literature, and he was granted tenure at Connecticut College in 2016.
 He commented about the post-election effort:
Armando Giovanni Iannucci, OBE ( ; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, television director, and radio producer.
Latvian names, like in most European cultures, consist of two main elements: the given name ("vārds") followed by family name ("uzvārds").
 During the Soviet occupation (1940 - 1991) the practice of giving a middle name was discouraged, but since the restoration of Independence Latvian legislation again allows giving of up to two given names and it has become more common to give a middle name to children.
The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government.
 It was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor.
 The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's appointment as prime minister in 2007, which saw new characters forming the opposition party added to the cast.
 These characters continued when the show switched channels to BBC Two for its third series in 2009.
 A fourth series about a coalition government was broadcast in 2012, with the last episode transmitted on 27 October 2012.
 In a 2012 interview, series creator Armando Iannucci said the fourth series of the programme would probably be its last.
Singh is a title, middle name or surname, which originated in India.
 Derived from the Sanskrit word for lion, it was adopted as a title by certain warrior castes in India.
 It was mandated by Guru Gobind Singh for all Sikhs.
 It was later adopted by several castes and communities.
 As a surname or a middle name, it is now found throughout the Indian subcontinent and among the Indian diaspora, cutting across communities and religious groups, becoming more of a title than a surname.
Marion Christopher Barry was born in June 1980 to Marion Barry and Barry's third wife, Effi Slaughter Barry.
 He was their only child.
 His father had wanted to name him Marion Barry III, but Effi was strongly opposed, and they decided to give him the middle name Christopher instead.
 For most of his adult life, Barry went by his middle name, Christopher.

Question: What is the middle name of the creator of the program The Thick of It ? 
Answer: Giovanni