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  • 2010-02-05T03:30:00Z on Comedy Central
  • 23m
  • 3h 30m (10 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy
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.

10 episodes

Season Premiere

2010-02-05T03:30:00Z

2x01 Attention

Season Premiere

2x01 Attention

  • 2010-02-05T03:30:00Z21m

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

2010-02-12T03:30:00Z

2x02 Ability

2x02 Ability

  • 2010-02-12T03:30:00Z21m

Demetri finds that people with special abilities -- unicyclists, amateur midwives and people who can simultaneously laugh and pee -- are in short supply.

2010-02-19T03:30:00Z

2x03 Strategy

2x03 Strategy

  • 2010-02-19T03:30:00Z21m

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.

2010-02-26T03:30:00Z

2x04 Money

2x04 Money

  • 2010-02-26T03:30:00Z21m

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.

2010-03-12T03:30:00Z

2x05 2

2x05 2

  • 2010-03-12T03:30:00Z21m

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.

2010-03-19T02:30:00Z

2x06 2, Too

2x06 2, Too

  • 2010-03-19T02:30:00Z21m

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.

2010-03-27T02:30:00Z

2x07 Lines

2x07 Lines

  • 2010-03-27T02:30:00Z21m

Demetri demonstrates how adding lines to a drawing can change everything and laments the lack of pick-up line equivalents for breaking up.

2010-04-03T02:30:00Z

2x08 Nature

2x08 Nature

  • 2010-04-03T02:30:00Z21m

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

2010-04-10T02:30:00Z

2x09 Space

2x09 Space

  • 2010-04-10T02:30:00Z21m

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.

2010-04-16T02:30:00Z

2x10 Control

2x10 Control

  • 2010-04-16T02:30:00Z21m

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

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