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.[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]
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 event 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 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 is married with two children and four grandchildren, at least two of whom live in
Seoul.[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]
References
^"Ian Martin". Casarotto.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2014.