Ian Martin (writer)

Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English Emmy award-winning comedy writer.[1] Ian 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] Ian won an Emmy for his writing across five series of VEEP and was Bafta nominated for co-writing The Death of Stalin[8][9].

Early life

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

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 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 WGA Award and Emmy award winning[16] HBO series Veep,[17][18][19] having written on five seasons[20][21][22] and having acted the role of Dave Wickford in Season 2.[23] 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.”[24]

Personal life

Martin is married with two children and four grandchildren.

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."[25]

References

  1. ↑ "Ian Martin". Casarotto.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  2. ↑ "The Thick of It - BBC Two". BBC.
  3. ↑ Parker, Ian (2012-03-26). "Armando Iannucci, Writer of "Veep" on HBO". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  4. ↑ "The Work of TV's Greatest Swearer Now on Hulu in 'The Thick of It'". The Daily Beast. 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  5. ↑ "The Astonishing (And Very Sweary) Lineage of 'Veep' | Anglophenia". BBC America. 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  6. ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Iannucci, Armando (1963-) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  7. 1 2 "Ian Martin | Event | Royal Academy of Arts". Royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  8. ↑ The Death of Stalin, retrieved 2018-08-07
  9. ↑ "BAFTA Awards Search | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  10. ↑ "Home". martian.fm.
  11. ↑ "Ian Martin at the Architects' Journal".
  12. ↑ "Ian Martin". the Guardian.
  13. ↑ "Time Trumpet - Credits". www.timetrumpet.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  14. 1 2 Ian Martin (2011). The Coalition Chronicles. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571276929. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  15. ↑ Armando Iannucci; Jesse Armstrong; Simon Blackwell; Ian Martin; Tony Roche (2010). The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571272549. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  16. ↑ "Writers Guild Awards". Wga.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-01. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  17. ↑ "HBO: Veep: About". HBO.
  18. ↑ Franklin, Oliver (2012-06-25). "The writers of Veep on US Politics, swearing and The Thick Of It - TV - GQ.COM (UK)". Gq-magazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  19. ↑ Martin, Denise (2014-05-16). "Veep's Timothy Simons on Jonah's Near Victory". Vulture. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  20. ↑ Tony Sokol (2014-04-20). "Veep: Alicia, review". Denofgeek.us. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  21. ↑ "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. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  22. ↑ "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  23. ↑ "Ian Martin (V)". imdb.com. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  24. ↑ Rosenberg, Alyssa (2014-04-04). "How 'Veep' conquered Washington". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  25. ↑ 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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