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Demetri Evan Martin was born May 25, 1973, in New York City, New York, but grew up on the Jersey Shore in Toms River, New Jersey. A self-described “nerd,” he attended Yale before receiving a full scholarship to study law at New York University. “I found it interesting for the first three weeks,” he says, “[but] by the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless.” It was during this time that Demetri Martin began exploring other extracurricular activities such as drawing, painting and, in his own words, “complaining about how much law school sucked.”

Demetri Martin Begins Performing Stand-up Comedy
The tedium eventually proved to be too much for him to handle, and Demetri Martin dropped out of NYU following his second year of studies. “Nobody liked my decision to leave law school, except for me,” he says. “I had a full scholarship, good grades and only one year left -- the easiest year. The only problem was that I had no passion for it. When I dropped out, everybody was disappointed. People said I should get the degree to have something to fall back on.” Instead, he began accepting temp work as a proofreader for legal and financial documents. He also began performing stand-up comedy in 1997 at the age of 24. "When I started I just wanted to tell a good joke -- I liked the puzzle of one-liners," he says. "Then I wanted to get better at things I couldn't do. I never played an instrument, so I bought a guitar. Then I realized that I like drawing things so I could incorporate that into the act."

Demetri Martin Wins The Perrier Comedy Award
Demetri Martin’s multimedia approach helped set him apart from his peers, and he received his big break four years later in 2001 when he appeared on Comedy Central’s stand-up showcase Premium Blend. The program helped increase his profile enormously and gave him the confidence to take his show on the road to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he won the coveted Perrier Comedy Award in 2003 for his one-man show If I... The show was later turned into a highly successful British television special that was broadcast throughout the U.K.

Demetri Martin Joins Late Night With Conan O’brien
The Perrier Comedy Award made Demetri Martin a known commodity, and he cashed in with a writing gig on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination in 2004. He also continued to perform regularly and had his very own Comedy Central Presents stand-up special later that year. The well-received program led to a host of new opportunities, including appearances on Last Call with Carson Daly and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Demetri Martin Joins The Daily Show
Demetri Martin’s career received another big boost in 2005 when he joined The Daily Show as the program’s Senior Youth Correspondent. His popular “Trendspotting” segments prompted NBC to hire him to create a pair of pilots and he later sold a script to Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg. "It's funny when you joke around with your friends and say, 'Hold on, I've got Spielberg on the other line,' and then you find yourself really talking to the guy," he says. Demetri Martin also made a splash at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival and at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where he won the Barry Award for his spectacular one man show Dr. Earnest Parrot Presents Demetri Martin.

Demetri Martin Gets His Very Own Show
After three more years of sold-out shows and dazzling late night appearances, Demetri Martin finally received his own program in 2009 when Comedy Central greenlit Important Things with Demetri Martin. Produced by Jon Stewart’s personal company, the hilarious program has become a smash hit thanks to Martin’s off-kilter delivery.

Demetri Martin Makes The Transition To The Big Screen
In addition to writing and starring in Important Things, Demetri Martin can also be seen in three new big screen comedies in the year ahead, including Paper Heart starring Michael Cera and Seth Rogen, Taking Woodstock with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Emile Hirsch and The Post Grad Survival Guide featuring Michael Keaton and Carol Burnett. He’s also signed on to star in Steven Soderbergh’s Moneyball, a drama about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane. The film is currently in pre-production and slated for a 2011 release date.