Christina Martin


Christina Martin is a British writer and former stand-up comedian.
She came third in the 2006 Funny Women 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 magazine between 2007 and 2009. , 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. She has appeared on the BBC7 show Festival Atmosphere 2006 and the BBC Radio 4 show . 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 named her as he knew.