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Christina Martin

He looks like a Steven to me...Hello Steven

About Me

I am a sometime stand-up comedian and comedy writer.
If you, for reasons known only to yourself, want to know more about this, here are some useful links:
My comedy CV: http://www.comedycv.co.uk/christinamartin
My comedy MySpace where I list my gig dates: www.myspace.com/comedychristina
Comments from people who have seen me: http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/c/2682/christina_martin/comm ents/
My YouTube Profile: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ChristinaLMartin
My New Humanist Writer Profile: http://newhumanist.org.uk/1413
The MySpace of my Christian alter ego: www.myspace.com/noelhurley
And finally, here is a link to my Just Giving site. Donations are gratefully received and will go towards helping adults with learning difficulties: http://www.justgiving.com/christinamartin

My Interests

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Music:

Ben Folds, Lisa Loeb, The New Pornographers, A C Newman, Zumpano, Stars, Neko Case, The National, Rogue Wave, Iron and Wine, The Decemberists, Immaculate Machine, Blur, Lucie Silvas, The Donnas, Tenacious D, Jimmy Eat World, Hole, All-American Rejects, and any 80s trashy pop...

Movies:

Fight Club, Rainman, Scent of a Woman, Team America: World Police, Rebel Without a Cause, Blues Brothers, People Vs Larry Flynt, Bill and Ted movies, 80s movies, Arnie movies, Marilyn Monroe movies....too many to list really....

Television:

There's nothing on anymore really is there?.... So I watch the following on youtube and dvd: Arrested Development, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Sealab: 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Fist of Fun, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, Beavis and Butthead, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, South Park, Frasier, Alan Partridge, Father Ted, The Office, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Peep Show, Tom Green, Stella Street, Mr Show, Supernatural, Dexter, Flight of the Conchords.

Books:

Mostly non-fiction. I likes to learn! History books, particularly about ancient Rome and Greece. Social and philosophical theory - particularly feminism and humanism. Favourite non-fiction novel is Catch 22.

Heroes:

Quite a mix: the 300, Emmeline Pankhurst, Simone De Beauvoir, Stewart Lee, David Cross, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Chris Rock, Doug Stanhope, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Richard Herring, AC Newman

My Blog

Disablism in Comedy

Just a quick blog to post a link to my interview about disablism in comedy: http://www.mencap.org.uk/page.asp?id=4199 Basically, this year I noticed a worrying increase in the use of wo...
Posted by Christina Martin on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:14:00 PST

Viz

Not much to report this month as far as Viz goes. We got just the one letter: It seems a bit short sighted of the authorities to release Gary Glitter early for good behaviour. He is a child moleste...
Posted by Christina Martin on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:55:00 PST

Christian Voice try to do irony

Noel got an email from Christian Voice today. I don't need to bother editorialising - it speaks for itself. But I'll say this much, I think I prefer Stephen Green when he's being his usual...
Posted by Christina Martin on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:22:00 PST

Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

Just a quickie to post the blurb for a gig I am doing at Christmas: NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS FOR GODLESS PEOPLE A Rational Celebration of Christmas 19th December, 2008 at The Bloomsbury theatre   ...
Posted by Christina Martin on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:43:00 PST

Anonymous VS Scientology

So as promised in my last blog, here is my write up of the Anti-Scientology protest I went along to observe recently, and the link to the podcast we recorded on the day:   http://blog.newhumanist...
Posted by Christina Martin on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:31:00 PST

Its that time again...

&Yes it's the monthly Viz blog.   So, this month we got the following letters in:   In all this debate about the future of the Church of England I find myself firmly siding with the traditio...
Posted by Christina Martin on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:08:00 PST

Viz stuff

This month, for the first time ever, we got nothing at all in Viz. I had heard from a couple of people that they were doing most things in-house this issue so it wasn't a surprise. However despite m...
Posted by Christina Martin on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:49:00 PST

The weird, the bad and the funny

There are 3 basic types of Sun letter. The first is from someone foaming at the mouth with anger, the second is from someone thanking the editors for a picture of some nice tits the day bef...
Posted by Christina Martin on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:19:00 PST

Feminism, Secularism, Humanism. An ism ish blog.

I woke up to some excellent news this morning courtesy of the Daily Mail:     Yes, women are now more equal than men: official.   I'm assuming this means that the Government have rol...
Posted by Christina Martin on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:14:00 PST

Viz stuff and a couple of requests

It's been a busy month  hence the complete lack of activity on my blog.   I've been busy at work, busy gigging, busy writing and busy being ill.   And on top of all that, James and I have...
Posted by Christina Martin on Fri, 30 May 2008 03:33:00 PST