Ian Martin (writer)

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Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English comedy writer. [1] Martin was a writer for the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Thick of It . [2] He was famously hired as "swearing consultant" [3] [4] [5] in 2005 by the show's creator, Armando Iannucci, [6] for Series 1 of the political satire and went on to become a full member of the writing team. [7] He won an Emmy for his writing across five series of Veep and was BAFTA nominated for co-writing The Death of Stalin . [8] [9]

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Early life

Martin was born in London and has lived in Lancaster since 1988, where half of his descendants now reside.[ citation needed ]

Career

Ian Martin edits the satirical website martian.fm. [10] He is a weekly columnist for the Architects' Journal [11] and a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper. [12] Other credits include writing additional material for the 2009 Oscar-nominated film In the Loop, the 2007 Armando Iannucci-created series Time Trumpet [13] and several series of the radio show Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive .

He is the author of The Coalition Chronicles (2011), [14] a satirical and scatalogical account of a year in the parliamentary life of the Coalition government. [14] He was a leading contributor to The Missing DoSAC Files (2010). [15]

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. [7]

Martin was a writer and supervising producer for the HBO series Veep , [16] [17] [18] having written on five seasons [19] [20] [21] and having acted the role of Dave Wickford in Season 2. [22] 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.” [23]

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. [24]

Personal life

Martin is married with two children and four grandchildren, two of whom live in Seoul, and the others in Lancaster. [25] [ citation needed ]

In August 2015, Martin endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign 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." [26]

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  2. ↑ "The Thick of It". BBC Two . Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  3. ↑ Parker, Ian (26 March 2012). "Armando Iannucci, Writer of "Veep" on HBO". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "The Work of TV's Greatest Swearer Now on Hulu in 'The Thick of It'". The Daily Beast. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "The Astonishing (And Very Sweary) Lineage of 'Veep' | Anglophenia". BBC America. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Iannucci, Armando (1963–) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  7. 1 2 "Ian Martin". Royal Academy . Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "The Death of Stalin". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  9. ↑ "BAFTA Awards Search | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Home". martian.fm.
  11. ↑ "Ian Martin's stories". Architects' Journal . Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  12. ↑ "Ian Martin". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  13. ↑ "Time Trumpet – Credits". www.timetrumpet.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  14. 1 2 Martin, Ian (2011). The Coalition Chronicles. Faber & Faber. ISBN   9780571276929 . Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  15. ↑ Iannucci, Armando; Armstrong, Jesse; Blackwell, Simon; Martin, Ian; Roche, Tony (2010). The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files. Faber & Faber. ISBN   9780571272549 . Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  16. ↑ "HBO: Veep: About". HBO.
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  20. ↑ "Veep, Ep 2.05: "Helsinki" explores how D.C. operates in Meyer's absence, while putting the Vice-President in a number of delicate situations". Sound On Sight. 13 May 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
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  25. ↑ Martin, Ian (26 April 2020). "Lockdown diary: 'I now end every argument with the words: People are DYING'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  26. ↑ Martin, Ian (4 August 2015). "Public opinion doesn't matter in the Labour leadership election. I'm following my conscience and Jeremy Corbyn". The Guardian . Retrieved 15 July 2017.
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