27 Facts About Martin Olson

Martin Olson was born on April 2,1956 and is an American comedy writer, television producer, author and composer.

Martin Olson is known for his unusual subject matter, and is an original member of the Boston Comedy Scene.

Martin Olson's brother, Thomas Olson, is a film and stage actor.

Martin Olson's adopted daughter Olivia Olson is a singer-songwriter, actress, and author.

Martin Olson decided to be a comedy writer as a boy when he saw comedian Brother Theodore ranting and raving on The Merv Griffin Show.

Martin Olson began writing for comedians before there were any comedy clubs in Boston.

Sean Morey opened a comedy school where Paul Barclay and Bill Downes met Martin Olson and decided to start a comedy showcase at Boston's Charles Theater on Wednesday nights, the first comedy club in Boston in 1977.

Martin Olson worked for or wrote with the comedians who became his friends, including Sean Morey, Lenny Clarke, Bobcat Goldthwait, Joe Alaskey, Don Gavin, Barry Crimmins, Steven Wright, Jimmy Tingle, Denis Leary, Steve Sweeney, Kevin Meaney and Kevin Nealon.

Martin Olson wrote for Clarke, who was the most popular comedian in Boston.

When comedian, writer and political satirist Barry Crimmins started the second comedy club in the Boston area called the Ding Ho, Martin Olson became piano player and with writer Jim Harris created Lenny Clarke's Late Show, a late-night comedy series on TV-38 hosted and co-written by Clarke.

Martin Olson took his tapes from the show and drove cross-country to San Francisco with comedian Don Gavin.

Martin Olson helped Gavin audition and make it into the finals.

In Los Angeles, Martin Olson was head writer for several HBO comedy specials, staff writer for the Screen Actors Guild Awards for three years, co-wrote an award-winning series for Comedy Central in London and was head writer or staff writer for many animated series voiced by his comedian friends, notably Rocko's Modern Life for Nickelodeon.

Martin Olson was head writer for the first season of the Disney animated series Phineas and Ferb.

Martin Olson read The Intertidal Zone, an educational comic book hosted by a sea sponge character, which Hillenburg had written and illustrated.

Martin Olson enthusiastically encouraged Hillenburg to create an underwater television series like the book, which became the SpongeBob series.

Martin Olson wrote the satirical book Encyclopaedia of Hell, and sold the film rights to Warner Bros.

Martin Olson was a contributing story writer and songwriter for Disney's TV film Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension.

In 2016, Martin Olson was staff writer for Disney's Milo Murphy's Law, and in 2017 co-wrote the story for Nickelodeon's animated film Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, a highly anticipated revival of Nickelodeon's cult-classic series Rocko's Modern Life.

Martin Olson plays Hunson Abadeer aka "The Lord of Evil" on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time and his real-life daughter Olivia Martin Olson voices the role of his character's daughter, Marceline the Vampire Queen.

Martin Olson appears in videos by his friends Garfunkel and Oates, Melinda Hill, Katie Schwartz, Adam Scott Franklin and Rich Dorato.

Martin Olson is a twice-Emmy-nominated songwriter, and an Annie-nominated songwriter, having written or co-written over three hundred and fifty songs produced for television or film.

Martin Olson has appeared as a singer on several television shows, including SpongeBob SquarePants and Phineas and Ferb.

At Disney Studios, with songwriting partners Dan Povenmire and Swampy Marsh, Martin Olson co-wrote songs with Bobby Lopez, co-writer of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and Disney's Frozen.

Martin Olson first collaborated with songwriter Jeff Root on four home studio albums in the 1970s.

Martin Olson wrote two unpleasant collections of poems, Hitler's Dog and Imaginary History of Reality, which are available for free DL.

Martin Olson has seven Emmy Nominations, five for TV writing and two for songwriting:.