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Important Things with Demetri Martin

Comedy Central · English · 2009–2010

Seasons: 2
Episodes: 17
Follower: 1

Important Things with Demetri Martin is a stream-of-consciousness sketch and variety show that explores issues of the utmost importance, from coolness to the afterlife. With props, music, animation and stand-up, it's a great and strange journey through all-around person Demetri Martin's mind.

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Season 210 episodes · 2010

Episode 1 · 4 Feb 2010 · 17:30 · 30 min
Attention
Comedic dogs and patients who deliver toasts while handing doctors their urine samples need attention, just like Demetri.
Episode 2 · 11 Feb 2010 · 17:30 · 30 min
Ability
Demetri finds that people with special abilities -- unicyclists, amateur midwives and people who can simultaneously laugh and pee -- are in short supply.
Episode 3 · 18 Feb 2010 · 17:30 · 30 min
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.
Episode 4 · 25 Feb 2010 · 17:30 · 30 min
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.
Episode 5 · 11 Mar 2010 · 17:30 · 30 min
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.
Episode 6 · 19 Mar 2010 · 16:30 · 30 min
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.
Episode 7 · 26 Mar 2010 · 16:30 · 30 min
Lines
Demetri demonstrates how adding lines to a drawing can change everything and laments the lack of pick-up line equivalents for breaking up.
Episode 8 · 2 Apr 2010 · 16:30 · 30 min
Nature
The natural world beguiles Demetri as he expounds on the cruelty of duck hunting and Bigfoot's mysterious sexual orientation.
Episode 9 · 9 Apr 2010 · 16:30 · 30 min
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.
Episode 10 · 15 Apr 2010 · 16:30 · 30 min
Control
Demetri wrestles with when it's good to be in control, particularly when struggling with a pinata.