Important Things With Demetri Martin (2009)

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.

Genres: Comedy

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Important Things With Demetri Martin (2009)

Season 2 (Feb. 4, 2010, midnight)

Genres: Comedy

Network: Comedy Central

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb

7.8

/3714/

Trakt

/160/

TMDb

/24/

Tomatoes

100

/10/

Metacritic

/16/

H. Jon Benjamin
Another Guy with a Neck Brac

Brian Berrebbi

Demetri Martin
host

John Oliver

David Cross
Co-Worker

Amanda Peet
Actress

Tom Virtue

Paul Zies

Feb. 4, 2010, midnight 0.0

S2E1 - Attention

Comedic dogs and patients who deliver toasts while handing doctors their urine samples need attention, just like Demetri.

Feb. 11, 2010, midnight 0.0

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. 18, 2010, midnight 0.0

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. 25, 2010, midnight 0.0

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.

March 11, 2010, midnight 0.0

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 18, 2010, midnight 0.0

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 26, 2010, midnight 0.0

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.

April 2, 2010, midnight 0.0

S2E8 - Nature

The natural world beguiles Demetri as he expounds on the cruelty of duck hunting and Bigfoot's mysterious sexual orientation.

April 9, 2010, midnight 0.0

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 15, 2010, midnight 0.0

S2E10 - Control

Demetri wrestles with when it's good to be in control, particularly when struggling with a piñata.

Network: Comedy Central

Episode Runtime: 23 min.

Season Runtime: 391 min.

Released: Feb. 12, 2009

Last Air Date: April 15, 2010, midnight

Status: Canceled

Certification: NR

Common sense age: 15+

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