“The most cerebral stand-up on the circuit.”
—The Guardian
Demetri Martin is a standup comedian, writer and director known for his dry delivery, inventive wordplay, drawings and offbeat observations.
He won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his one-man show If I and Australia’s Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has released three stand-up comedy albums and four hour-long specials, including Netflix’s The Overthinker, and created and starred in Comedy Central’s Important Things with Demetri Martin.
Martin is also a New York Times bestselling author whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. His feature film, Dean, which he wrote, directed and starred in, won the Founder’s Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Demetri has brown hair and he is allergic to peanuts.
“Cerebral and absurdist and surprising.” —The New York Times