Demetri Martin rose to relative obscurity when he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City at the end of the twentieth 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, as well as in an hour-long comedy special called Demetri Martin. Person. He 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. |
