Demetri Martin

At 51 years old, Demetri Martin has this physical status:

Demetri Evan Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, producer, comedian, and singer.

He appeared on The Daily Show as a contributing author.

He is best known for his deadpan performance, playing his guitar for jokes, and his parody cartoons in stand-up.

Ice Bear is currently starring in the Cartoon Network animated series We Bare Bears.

Early life

Martin was born in New York City on May 25, 1973, the son of Lillian (1951–2019) and Greek Orthodox priest Dean C. Martin (1948–1994). His ancestors immigrated from Sparta and Crete. He grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, and has a younger brother named Spyro and a younger sister named Christene. He worked at his family's diner in Beachwood, NJ, as a youth. He attended Toms River High School North and graduated in 1991.

Martin graduated from Yale University in 1995 with a B.A. in History. During his stay in the city, he wrote a 224-word poem as a result of a fractal geometry class, which later became a well-known palindromic poem. He was also a member of the Anti-Gravity Society, whose members juggle objects on Yale's Old Campus on Sunday evenings.

Despite being admitted to Harvard Law School, Martin decided to attend New York University School of Law after receiving a full scholarship. Martin dropped out of law school before the start of his fourth year, opting to pursue comedy rather than obtaining his Juris Doctor degree.

Personal life

Martin had a short-lived affair with a former high school classmate named Jen during a July 2011 interview on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron. They started dating after high school and became married while he was at NYU Law School, and she was attending NYU Medical School. In his one-man show Spiral Bound, the relationship was further investigated.

Martin has anaphylactic reaction to certain nuts, seafood, and poultry.

Martin married Rachael Beame in Santa Monica, California, where he has lived since 2009. Eve and Paul have a daughter and a son named Paul. They now live in Los Feliz, California.

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Career

Martin began performing stand-up in the summer of 1997 shortly after graduating from law school. When Martin appeared on Comedy Central's stand-up showcase Premium Blend in 2001, he earned his first big break in stand-up comedy. He received the Perrier Award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his performance If I.... In 2004, the show was turned into a BBC television special. Martin starred on Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 2003 to 2004. Martin's own Comedian Presents stand-up special appeared in 2004. His special was divided into three parts. In the first performance, he performed in a traditional stand-up comedy style. He used amusing drawings as visual aids in the second segment, which could be used as the punchline or a background. During the third segment, he played the guitar and staged a pseudo-play in which he would strum his guitar while playing harmonica and talking; some of his comedian friends dressed as fairies and dragons, according to the tale. Martin's mother and grandmother also appeared.

He appeared on The Daily Show in late 2005 as "Senior Youth Correspondent" and hosted a segment titled "Trendspotting" beginning in late 2005. He used this segment to address so-called hip trends among youth, such as hookahs, wine, guerilla marketing, and Xbox 360. On Myspace, he appeared in a story about social media. Martin appeared on The Daily Show on March 22, 2007, discussing the Viacom case against Google and YouTube. As of 2014, he is no longer a Daily Show contributor. He had been invited to audition for SNL but decided against it due to the seven-year commitment before beginning to the show.

These Are Jokes, Heard's first comedy album, was released on September 26, 2006. Will Forte of Saturday Night Live and Leo Allen, a stand-up comedian, appear on this album. Martin, the youngest Correspondent of the New Youth Correspondent, appeared on The Daily Show on March 22, 2006, titled "Productive News With Demetri Martin." In a Fountains of Wayne music video for "Someone to Love" as Seth Shapiro and Millet as Beth Mackenzie, he appeared in 2007. Both of them are protagonists in the story. He also appeared in the Travis single "Selfish Jean" video, in which he wears numerous T-shirts with lyrics printed on them. Martin appeared on the season finale of HBO's Flight of the Conchords on September 2, 2007. Demetri, the demetri himself, appeared as a keytar player. Rainn Wilson appeared in the film The Rocker (2008). When Martin appeared as the videographer in the film was making their first music video, they played the role of the videographer.

He produced and starred in his own television show entitled Important Things With Demetri Martin on Comedy Central in 2009. Later in June, it was announced that his show had been renewed for a second season. On February 4, 2010, Comedy Central's second season premiered, once more. Important Things will not return for a third season, Martin has said. Martin appeared in the comedy-drama film Taking Woodstock (2009), directed by Ang Lee, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, before starting work on his second season. Martin plays Elliot Tiber, a young gay artist who has left his plans in the city to relocate and help his elderly-world Jewish family run their Catskill Mountains motel. Tiber's book is used in the film. This Is a Book was Martin's first book, published on April 25, 2011. Martin was only in part of the 2011 film Contagion.

Martin sold his film Will to DreamWorks, and he's expected to play a key supporting role. He will lead the film Moon People, a pitch he sold to Columbia Pictures. In October 2010, he signed a blind script contract with CBS to produce, write, and star in his own television series. Since CBS was shown the pilot for the series, they decided not to air it.

Martin's second comedy collection, Demetri Martin, was released on October 2, 2012. Stand-up Comedian.

In the Cartoon Network series We Bare Bears and the narrator in its spin-off series We Baby Bears, Martin appears as Ice Bear. In the 2016 film Dean, he wrote, edited, and starred.

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