Ian Martin (writer) explained

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. He won an Emmy for his writing across five series of Veep and was BAFTA nominated for co-writing The Death of Stalin.[7] [8]

Early life

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

Career

Ian Martin edits the satirical website martian.fm.[9] He is a weekly columnist for the Architects' Journal[10] and a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper.[11] Other credits include writing additional material for the 2009 Oscar-nominated film In the Loop, the 2007 Armando Iannucci-created series Time Trumpet[12] and several series of the radio show Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive.

He is the author of The Coalition Chronicles (2011),[13] 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).[14]

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.[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 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, at least two of whom live in Seoul.[25]

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ian Martin . Casarotto.co.uk . 2014-06-09.
  2. Web site: The Thick of It. BBC Two. 3 November 2019.
  3. Parker . Ian . Armando Iannucci, Writer of "Veep" on HBO . The New Yorker . 2012-03-26 . 2014-06-09.
  4. Web site: 2012-09-27 . The Work of TV’s Greatest Swearer Now on Hulu in ‘The Thick of It’ . The Daily Beast . 2014-06-09.
  5. Web site: The Astonishing (And Very Sweary) Lineage of 'Veep' | Anglophenia . BBC America . 2012-02-27 . 2014-06-09.
  6. Web site: BFI Screenonline: Iannucci, Armando (1963–) Biography. www.screenonline.org.uk.
  7. Web site: The Death of Stalin. Rotten Tomatoes. en. 3 November 2019.
  8. Web site: BAFTA Awards Search BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org. en. 2018-08-07.
  9. Web site: Home. martian.fm.
  10. News: Ian Martin's stories . . 3 November 2019.
  11. News: Ian Martin. The Guardian. 3 November 2019.
  12. Web site: Time Trumpet – Credits. www.timetrumpet.co.uk. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183253/http://www.timetrumpet.co.uk/credits.htm. 3 March 2016.
  13. Book: The Coalition Chronicles . Martin, Ian . . 9780571276929 . 2011 . 2014-06-09.
  14. Book: The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files . Iannucci, Armando . Armstrong, Jesse . Blackwell, Simon. Martin, Ian . Roche, Tony . . 9780571272549 . 2010 . 9 June 2014.
  15. Web site: Ian Martin . . 9 June 2014.
  16. Web site: HBO: Veep: About. HBO.
  17. Web site: Franklin . Oliver . The writers of Veep on US Politics, swearing and The Thick Of It – TV – GQ.COM (UK) . Gq-magazine.co.uk . 25 June 2012 . 9 June 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140415041654/http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-06/25/veep-sky-atlantic-writers-interview-the-thick-of-it . 15 April 2014 . dead .
  18. Web site: Martin . Denise . Veep’s Timothy Simons on Jonah’s Near Victory . Vulture . 16 May 2014 . 9 June 2014.
  19. Web site: Tony Sokol. Tony Sokol. Veep: Alicia, review . Denofgeek.us . 20 April 2014 .
  20. Web site: 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 . 2013-05-13 . 2014-06-09.
  21. News: What’s It Like Having Power? How Would I Know?. Parker, James. The New York Times. 20 April 2012. 3 November 2019.
  22. Web site: Ian Martin (V). imdb.com. 9 June 2014.
  23. Web site: Rosenberg . Alyssa . How ‘Veep’ conquered Washington . Washingtonpost.com . 4 April 2014 . 9 June 2014.
  24. Web site: The Hartlepool Spy . BBC Radio 4 . 10 January 2019.
  25. News: Martin. Ian. Lockdown diary: ‘I now end every argument with the words: People are DYING'. 2020-04-26. The Guardian. 2020-04-27. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  26. News: Martin. Ian. Public opinion doesn't matter in the Labour leadership election. I'm following my conscience and Jeremy Corbyn. The Guardian. 4 August 2015. 15 July 2017.

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