Important Things with Demetri Martin
Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examined a single theme, the "important thing", such as timing, power, control and money. All sketches, short vignettes, animated segments and stand-up comedy were loosely related to the theme of the episode. The show was produced by Jon Stewart's Busboy Productions, and contains stand-up, prop comedy and musical comedy by Martin, as well as taped sketches. Jon Stewart took an active role in editing the first few episodes.
Seasons
1. Timing
Air Date: 2009-02-11
Demetri has trouble mustering the necessary anger for a breakup, time traveling for noble purposes and measuring his hobo-ness.
2. Power
Air Date: 2009-02-18
Demetri ponders the nature of power, proves that bird ownership is arrogant and introduces The Revenger.
3. Brains
Air Date: 2009-02-25
Demetri does away with traditional neuroscience and phrenology as he digs into brains.
4. Chairs
Air Date: 2009-03-04
Demetri considers the many mysteries surrounding chairs.
5. Safety
Air Date: 2009-03-11
Demetri's safety tips: Employ scented candles as a fire alarm, use pubic hair for home security, and maintain a healthy fear of piñatas.
6. Coolness
Air Date: 2009-03-18
Demetri is too cool for clear pants, but he still needs professional help before a date.
7. Games
Air Date: 2009-03-25
Demetri trades in fun, games and audience threats while reimagining pro sports as animal duels.
1. Attention
Air Date: 2010-02-04
Comedic dogs and patients who deliver toasts while handing doctors their urine samples need attention, just like Demetri.
2. Ability
Air Date: 2010-02-11
Demetri finds that people with special abilities -- unicyclists, amateur midwives and people who can simultaneously laugh and pee -- are in short supply.
3. Strategy
Air Date: 2010-02-18
Demetri knows that a man is only as good as his plan, so he explores the best strategy for seduction, suing your neighbor over a fence and reacting to alien life.
4. Money
Air Date: 2010-02-25
Demetri finds there's more than one way to acquire wealth since it's not enough to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth -- sometimes you gotta shave a snake.
5. 2
Air Date: 2010-03-11
Demetri examines the number 2 from every vantage, from the biological -- as when two women hit the lavatory to dissect a blind date -- to basic but unnoticed social cues.
6. 2, Too
Air Date: 2010-03-18
Demetri returns to the number 2, shining a spotlight on Superman's duplicitous sidekick and how the shape of the number 2 conveys vital information.
7. Lines
Air Date: 2010-03-26
Demetri demonstrates how adding lines to a drawing can change everything and laments the lack of pick-up line equivalents for breaking up.
8. Nature
Air Date: 2010-04-02
The natural world beguiles Demetri as he expounds on the cruelty of duck hunting and Bigfoot's mysterious sexual orientation.
9. Space
Air Date: 2010-04-09
Demetri finds that spaces in a sentence are just as important as word choice and learns that space travel in the future is disconcertingly simple.
10. Control
Air Date: 2010-04-15
Demetri wrestles with when it's good to be in control, particularly when struggling with a piñata.
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Rating
6.4/10
Release Date
2009-02-11
Episodes
17 (2 seasons)
Status
Canceled
