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.
Important Things with Demetri Martin (Season 2)
Attention (Episode 1)
Air date: 2010-02-04
Overview: Comedic dogs and patients who deliver toasts while handing doctors their urine samples need attention, just like Demetri.
Ability (Episode 2)
Air date: 2010-02-11
Overview: Demetri finds that people with special abilities -- unicyclists, amateur midwives and people who can simultaneously laugh and pee -- are in short supply.
Strategy (Episode 3)
Air date: 2010-02-18
Overview: 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.
Money (Episode 4)
Air date: 2010-02-25
Overview: 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.
2 (Episode 5)
Air date: 2010-03-11
Overview: 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.
2, Too (Episode 6)
Air date: 2010-03-18
Overview: 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.
Lines (Episode 7)
Air date: 2010-03-26
Overview: Demetri demonstrates how adding lines to a drawing can change everything and laments the lack of pick-up line equivalents for breaking up.
Nature (Episode 8)
Air date: 2010-04-02
Overview: The natural world beguiles Demetri as he expounds on the cruelty of duck hunting and Bigfoot's mysterious sexual orientation.
Space (Episode 9)
Air date: 2010-04-09
Overview: 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.
Control (Episode 10)
Air date: 2010-04-15
Overview: Demetri wrestles with when it's good to be in control, particularly when struggling with a piñata.
