Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English comedy writer.
Martin was a writer for the
BAFTA-winning BBC series ''
The Thick of It''. He was famously hired as "swearing consultant" in 2005 by the show's creator,
Armando Iannucci, for Series 1 of the political satire and went on to become a full member of the writing team.
He won an
Emmy
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for his writing across five series of ''
Veep'' and was BAFTA nominated for co-writing ''
The Death of Stalin''.
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 ''
Architects' Journal'' and a regular contributor to ''
The Guardian'' newspaper.
Other credits include writing additional material for the 2009
Oscar-nominated film
''In the Loop'', the 2007 Armando Iannucci-created series ''
Time Trumpet'' and several series of the radio show ''
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive''.
He is the author of ''The Coalition Chronicles'' (2011),
a satirical and
scatalogical
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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
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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 ''
Veep'', having written on five seasons
and having acted the role of Dave Wickford in Season 2.
In 2014 Armando Iannucci described Ian Martin in ''
The Washington Post'' 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
BBC Radio 4 on Christmas Day 2018, with a cast including
Michael Palin,
Vic Reeves,
Toby Jones,
Gina McKee and
Monica Dolan.
Personal life
Martin is married with two children and four grandchildren, at least two of whom live in
Seoul.
In August 2015, Martin endorsed
Jeremy Corbyn's
campaign
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in the
Labour Party leadership election. He wrote in ''
The Guardian'': "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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1953 births
Living people
21st-century English writers
BBC people
English comedy writers
English satirists
English socialists
The Guardian people
People from London