Career
He is known for playing Alan Cooper in The Inbetweeners. in 1994 and went on to write additional material for shows such as Head on Comedy, Lenny Henry in Pieces and Haywire, and comedians such as Harry Enfield, Johnny Vaughan and Philosophy Kay. Trenaman has been credited with writing material for Is lieutenant Bill Bailey? and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He appeared in two of Bailey"s live shows.
With Philosophy Whelans in Bill Bailey"s Cosmic Jam (1996) as part of the band "The Stan Ellis Experiment", and in Participant Troll (2004) with Kevin Eldon and John Moloney in Kraftwerk spoof, "Das Hokey Kokey".
He also appears on Bailey"s Bewilderness Digital Video Disc in the spoof interview Legacy of Dreams: With Martin Trenaman. He worked with Sean Lock, both in writing additional material for Is it Bill Bailey? and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and also by co-writing Sean Lock"s sitcom 15 Storeys High.
Martin has contributed to all 4 series of the show, which includes 2 on radio and 2 on television He also co-stars in the first series of the radio show, and makes numerous guest appearances during the television series.
Martin has also had cameos in scores of British comedy series, including Barking, The Nearly Complete And Utter History of Everything, The Strangerers, World of Public, Saxondale, Wild West, TLC, He Says, She Says and The Mighty Boosh.
He also appeared in an episode of Spaced as Derek, the nemesis of Bill Bailey"s character Bilbo Bagshot. He played Tony Hancock in Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!, in 2006. He appeared in an advert for mobile phone company 3, advertising 3G video messaging by talking to a hand puppet in the shape of a duck.
He did the voiceover for an Associate of Arts advert.
He featured as a voice over artist on the edition of 30 November 2007 of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, which also featured his Mighty Boosh co-stars Noel Fielding and Rich Fulcher. He appeared in BBC1"s The Impressions Show, presented by Debra Stephenson and Jon Culshaw.
Martin recently appeared as Lance, the manager, in E4"s Phoneshop. He appeared in CBBC"s All at Sea, and in Noel Fielding"s Luxury Comedy.
