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Demerti Martin
In 2001, Demetri Martin caught his first big break in stand-up comedy when he appeared on Comedy Central's stand-up showcase Premium Blend. In 2003 he won the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his show If I.... [5] The show was turned into a British television special in 2004.
From 2003 to 2004, Martin was a writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In 2004, Martin had his own Comedy Central Presents stand-up comedy special. His special was divided into three parts. In the first he performed in traditional stand-up comedy fashion. In the second segment he used humorous drawings as visual aids, which would serve either as the punchline or a background. During the third segment, he played a guitar and put on a pseudo-play where he would strum his guitar while talking; some of his comedian friends dressed as fairies and dragons and acted according to the story he was telling, detailing the magical land from which his jokes came. Martin's mother and grandmother also appeared.
Martin, along with Zach Galifianakis, is one of the first people on a Comedy Central special to do the three major forms of stand-up comedy, appearing as a stand-up comic, a prop comic, and as a musical comic.[citation needed]
Since late-2005, he has been credited as a contributor on The Daily Show, on which he hosts a segment called "Trendspotting." He has used this segment to talk about so-called hip trends among youth such as hookahs and the Xbox 360. A piece about social networking featured his profile on MySpace. [6]
  
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