Jay Martel

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Jay Martel is an American comedy writer of screenplays, novels, plays and essays. He has won Emmy, Peabody, Writers Guild of America, and American Comedy awards for his writing. [1]

Martel's first novel, the science-fiction comedy "Channel Blue" (published in 2014 by Head of Zeus), is currently being developed by Paramount as a feature. [2] His other novels include The Present and Time Enough, published by Audible in 2021 and 2022. [3]

In TV, he was co-showrunner and head writer on the sketch show Key & Peele and has worked on many other comedy series, including Alternatino With Arturo Castro , Teachers , Halfway Home , and Strangers With Candy . [4]

He has also worked with Michael Moore on TV Nation , The Awful Truth , and on the movie, Fahrenheit 911 .

In movies, he co-wrote the screenplay for Get Hard . [5] He wrote the screenplay for The Present , [6] based on his novel, which starred Greg Kinnear and Isla Fisher, and is currently streaming on Hulu. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Team, The Deadline (2 February 2014). "WGA Awards: 'Captain Phillips' & 'Her' Win Top Film Awards; 'Breaking Bad', 'Veep' & 'House Of Cards' Score On TV Side". Deadline.
  2. ↑ Galuppo, Mia (22 January 2020). "'Key & Peele' Showrunner Jay Martel to Adapt 'Channel Blue' for Paramount Players". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. ↑ "Jay Martel – Audio Books, Best Sellers, Author Bio | Audible.com".
  4. ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (4 September 2019). "AGC Studios Unwrapping 'The Present' Spec From 'Key & Peele' Scribe Jay Martel". Deadline.
  5. ↑ Scott, A.O. (27 March 2015). "Review: 'Get Hard,' With Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart (Published 2015)".
  6. ↑ "THE PRESENT". AGC.
  7. ↑ "The Present". Hulu.
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