External links
- Ian Martin at IMDb
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Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English comedy writer. [1] Martin was a writer for the BBC series The Thick of It . [2] He was hired in 2005 for Series 1 of the political satire by the show's creator, Armando Iannucci, [3] in a role described as "swearing consultant", [4] [5] [6] and later became 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]
Martin was born in London and has lived in Lancaster since 1988, where half of his descendants now reside.[ citation needed ]
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]
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 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]
Martin is married with two children and four grandchildren, two of whom live in Seoul, and the others in Lancaster, where his daughter teaches music at Lancaster Royal Grammar School. [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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