Christina Martin (born January 1980) is a British writer and former stand-up comedian.
She came third in the 2006
Funny Women
Funny Women is an online and in-person workshop community dedicated to the support of female comedians. It was founded by Lynne Parker in 2002 as a reaction to misogynistic comments from a comedy promoter. Funny Women helps women find their voice, ...
Awards. She was a feature writer for ''
Viz'' magazine between 2006 and 2009. Her articles appear in the annuals 'Last Turkey in the Shop', 'The Council Gritter', 'The Five Knuckle Shuffle' and 'The Cleveland Steamer' and in their thirty year retrospective book 'Anus Horribilis'. Christina wrote for ''
New Humanist
''New Humanist'' is a quarterly magazine, published by the Rationalist Association in the UK, that focuses on culture, news, philosophy, and science from a sceptical perspective.
History
The ''New Humanist'' has been in print for more than 13 ...
'' magazine between 2007 and 2009.
God Trumps, her feature from the Nov/Dec 2008 issue, is the most viewed online article in the website's history gaining 50,000 hits in one day and has been made into a playable card game. A chapter she wrote on the creation of God Trumps featured in
The Atheist's Guide to Christmas. She has appeared on the
BBC7 show ''Festival Atmosphere 2006'' and the
BBC Radio 4
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show
28 Acts in 28 Minutes'. She was also part of the writing team for the Radio 4 show ''Recorded for Training Purposes'' and wrote for one episode of ''The Now Show''. In a Guardian interview
Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian and writer, whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring (alongside Stewart Lee). He is described by ''The British Theatre Guide'' as "one of the lead ...
named her a
one of the funniest peoplehe knew. She has featured twice on
Radio 4's The Untold, once as the focus of an episode and once in a catch up episode. The former episode was selected as a
Radio 4 and
The Guardian
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Guide Pick of The Week and gained interest from a publisher who approached her to write a book. In 2021 she was signed by the Jo Unwin Literary Agency. Her book is due to be published in March 2023.
References
External links
Christina Martinat Chortle
Christina Martinat Comedy CV
Christina Martinat
New Humanist
''New Humanist'' is a quarterly magazine, published by the Rationalist Association in the UK, that focuses on culture, news, philosophy, and science from a sceptical perspective.
History
The ''New Humanist'' has been in print for more than 13 ...
Christina Martinat British Comedy Guide
Christina Martinat Jo Unwin Literary Agency
Living people
1980 births
British women comedians
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