Demetri Martin rose to relative obscurity when he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City at the end of the 20
thCentury. 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.
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