Important Things with Demetri Martin (2009)

Genre

comedy

Country

United States

Length

2 seasons, 17 episodes

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Comedian Demetri Martin hosts a sketch and variety show. Each episode focuses on one topic like timing or power, mixing stand-up, animated bits, and short skits all tied to that theme.

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What happens

Important Things with Demetri Martin was a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examines a single theme, the "important thing", such as timing, power, control and money. All sketches, short vignettes, animated segments and stand-up comedy are 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. H. Jon Benjamin appeared in eight episodes and had a writing credit on seven as well. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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