Profile of Demetri Martin on Famous Like Me

Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian. He attended Yale and after graduating enrolled in law school at New York University. He later dropped out to pursue a career in comedy.

Career

In 2003 he won the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with If I.... From 2003 to 2004 he was a writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Comedy Central

Martin has had a two specials on Comedy Central. One of his specials was divided into three parts, as follows: In the first segment of it he told regular jokes such as: "I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said "Happy Birthday" on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote "Jesus" on it." For the second segment he used humorous drawings to aid his jokes. He would use the images either as the punchline or just as a background. For the third segment Martin got a guitar and strummed it around the punchline. He then put on a pseudo-play where he would strum his guitar while talking; actors dressed as fairies and dragons and such would act according to the story he was telling ("where my jokes come from"). Martin's mother and grandmother also appeared.

Martin was the first person on a Comedy Central special to do the three major forms of stand-up comedy, appearing as a standup comic, a prop comic (such as The Amazing Jonathan), and as a musical comic (such as Stephen Lynch (comedian)).

Recently

Martin appeared at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe in a show called These Are Jokes.

According to Martin's website, he is currently working on a book of drawings to be released in October 2005 and an album to be released in the coming months.

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