[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.
[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.
[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] Martin is married with two children and four grandchildren, two of whom live in Seoul, and the others in Lancaster, where his daughter teaches music at LRGS.
[25][citation needed] In August 2015, Martin endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.