Demetri Martin

Demetri Martin is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humourist. He is best known for his work as a stand up comedian, contributor on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a writer on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and for his Comedy Central show “Important Things With Demetri Martin”.

Martin hit his stride with stand up comedy when he won Edinburgh Festival’s prestigious Perrier Award on his first visit in 2003.

Martin is known for being an unconventional stand up comic. He uses extensive wordplay, one liners and drawings on a large pad as well as accompanying his jokes with music on either a guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboard, toy bells, ukulele, sometimes all at once.

“The studiously ambidextrous, palindrome-spewing, perfect-joke-crafting Demetri Martin finally arrives.” - New York Magazine

Dubbed by the Guardian ‘the funniest man on TV in America’ comedian, and law school dropout, Demetri Martin makes regular appearances as the ‘Senior Youth Correspondent’ for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, drawing inspiration from Steven Wright, Steve Martin and Mitch Hedberg.

His Comedy Central Show, Important Things with Demetri Martin is now broadcast in many countries to wide acclaim. He has also appeared in Flight of the Conchords and on the big screen in Ang Lee’s 2009 film Taking Woodstock.

In April 2011, Martin published his first book, This Is A Book.

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