Demetri Martin rose to relative obscurity when he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City at the end of the 20th Century. Later he became a writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien and then a regular performer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2003, Demetri won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival for his first one-man show, If I. He released a comedy album called These Are Jokes and then created and starred in his own television series called Important Things with Demetri Martin.
His first stand-up comedy special, Demetri Martin. Person is considered by many to be his longest and only hour-long stand-up comedy special. Martin has appeared in movies as an actor, most recently in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and most lengthily in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock. His first book, This Is a Book by Demetri Martin is a New York Times Bestseller. Demetri has brown hair, and he is allergic to peanuts. You can find him at www.demetrimartin.com, at www.facebook.com/demetrimartin, on Twitter @demetrimartin, and in various places in the actual physical world.
"Demetri Martin has a very funny and original mind. If I could draw
a graph explaining how funny and original he is, I would. But I
don't do that. Demetri does that."-Conan O'Brien
"This book embodies the essence of Demetri's comedy to perfection,
which is a good thing since he wrote it. Silly but incredibly
smart, it's exactly what puts me in awe of his work."
-Will Ferrell
"This book is so funny I forgot to laugh. I know that sounds like a
childish criticism, but I mean it literally: This book is so funny,
I forgot a whole bunch of things--who I am, what I stand for, large
chunks of my childhood, my sense of equilibrium, how to fall
asleep, and when I'm supposed to laugh at things."-Chuck
Klosterman
"When I first saw Important Things With Demetri Martin, I said to
myself, "this is the funniest thing ever." I was wrong. This Is A
Book is better." -Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story
of Success
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