Nathan Fielder
Director
Important Things with Demetri Martin (2009)
Season 2
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.
Released Feb. 11, 2009
Episode 30 min
15+
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: imdb.stand-up-comedian, imdb.running-gag, imdb.performer-name-in-title, imdb.one-liner, imdb.musical-number, imdb.live-audience, imdb.joke + 24 more, imdb.actor-playing-himself, imdb.actor-name-in-title, imdb.character-name-in-title, imdb.comedian, imdb.stand-up-comedy, imdb.surrealism, imdb.spoof, imdb.social-satire, imdb.satire, imdb.singing, imdb.singer, imdb.pop-culture, imdb.parody, imdb.musician, imdb.monologue, imdb.live-performance, imdb.irreverence, imdb.actor-playing-multiple-roles, imdb.absurdism, imdb.absurd-humor, imdb.alternative-comedy, imdb.sketch-comedy, imdb.satire-comedy, imdb.parody-comedy
Network: Comedy Central
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Attention
Comedic dogs and patients who deliver toasts while handing doctors their urine samples need attention, just like Demetri.
Feb. 4, 2010, midnight
S2E2 - Ability
Demetri finds that people with special abilities -- unicyclists, amateur midwives and people who can simultaneously laugh and pee -- are in short supply.
Feb. 11, 2010, midnight
S2E3 - Strategy
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.
Feb. 18, 2010, midnight
S2E4 - Money
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.
Feb. 25, 2010, midnight
S2E5 - 2
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.
March 11, 2010, midnight
S2E6 - 2, Too
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.
March 18, 2010, midnight
S2E7 - Lines
Demetri demonstrates how adding lines to a drawing can change everything and laments the lack of pick-up line equivalents for breaking up.
March 26, 2010, midnight
S2E8 - Nature
The natural world beguiles Demetri as he expounds on the cruelty of duck hunting and Bigfoot's mysterious sexual orientation.
April 2, 2010, midnight
S2E9 - Space
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.
April 9, 2010, midnight
S2E10 - Control
Demetri wrestles with when it's good to be in control, particularly when struggling with a piñata.
April 15, 2010, midnight
Comedy Central
30 min/ep
510 min
Feb. 11, 2009
April 15, 2010, midnight
Canceled
NR
15+
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