Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English comedy writer. Martin was a writer for the BAFTA-winning BBC series ''

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''. He was famously hired as "swearing consultant" in 2005 by the show's creator,

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, for Series 1 of the political satire and went on to become a full member of the writing team. He won an Emmy for his writing across five series of ''

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'' and was BAFTA nominated for co-writing ''

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''.

Early life

Martin was born in London and has lived in Lancaster since 1988.

Career

Ian Martin edits the satirical website martian.fm. He is a weekly columnist for the ''

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'' and a regular contributor to ''

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'' newspaper. Other credits include writing additional material for the 2009

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-nominated film ''In the Loop'', the 2007 Armando Iannucci-created series ''

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'' and several series of the radio show ''

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''. He is the author of ''The Coalition Chronicles'' (2011), a satirical and scatalogical account of a year in the parliamentary life of the Coalition government. He was a leading contributor to ''The Missing DoSAC Files'' (2010). On 9 June 2014, Ian Martin gave a lecture at the Royal Academy in an evening event hosted by writer and broadcaster Patrick Wright as part of the 2014 Festival of Architecture. Martin was a writer and supervising producer for the HBO series ''

'', having written on five seasons and having acted the role of Dave Wickford in Season 2. In 2014 Armando Iannucci described Ian Martin in ''

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'' as being “very good at making the language of political debate suddenly become nonsensical.” Martin's radio play ''The Hartlepool Spy'', concerning the Hartlepool monkey, was broadcast on

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on Christmas Day 2018, with a cast including

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and

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Personal life

Martin is married with two children and four grandchildren, at least two of whom live in

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. In August 2015, Martin endorsed

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in the Labour Party leadership election. He wrote in ''

'': "To win over public opinion, Labour must reflect it. Is that right? I think that's right. I think that's why they're all doing this synchronised frowning at poor repellent-ebullient Jeremy Corbyn and pretending he's a weirdo."

References

External links

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