Ian Martin (writer)
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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]
Career
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]
