Important Announcement! COMEDY CENTRAL's(R) 'Important Things with Demetri Martin' Returns for a Second Season on Thursday, Febr
January 12 2010 - 10:47AM
PR Newswire (US)
New "Important Things with Demetri Martin"/"The Sarah Silverman
Program" Block To Air On Thursdays NEW YORK, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/
-- A very important show returns to COMEDY CENTRAL for a second
season. Season two of the hit sketch comedy series "Important
Things with Demetri Martin" debuts on Thursday, February 4 at 10:00
p.m. The new "Important Things with Demetri Martin"/"The Sarah
Silverman Program" block airs on Thursdays. The 10-episode second
season of "Important Things with Demetri Martin" was produced in
Los Angeles and San Francisco and features stand-up comedian,
actor, Emmy®-losing writer and all-around person Demetri Martin as
the creator, executive producer and star of the series. Martin
mixes stand-up comedy, sketches, animation, studio bits and music
to explore one "important thing" per episode. The new season
introduces such topics as Attention, Ability, Strategy, Money and
2. "Important Things with Demetri Martin" launched on February 11,
2009 as COMEDY CENTRAL's most-watched series premiere since
"Chappelle's Show" (2003) with an average of 2.8 million total
viewers and was the most-watched program on all of television in
prime time, that night among Men 18-24, beating even "American
Idol." The first season of "Important Things," which ended on March
25, averaged 2.3 million total viewers and ranked as the #1 series
in its timeslot in all of television among Men 18-24 and Men 18-34.
(Source: Nielsen Media Research, most current data,
2/11/09-3/25/09). "Important Things with Demetri Martin" will be
available day-after-air both in Standard and High Definition on
iTunes Xbox LIVE and Zune. It will be available in Standard
Definition only on Sony Playstation Network and Amazon Video on
Demand. Demetri Martin (http://www.demetrimartin.com/) has
performed in most of the English-speaking countries in the world
(not in South Africa or New Zealand, though) and won trophies for
comedy in America, Scotland and Australia. Martin was a staff
writer for "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and has appeared on many
late night talk shows. He was in a few movies, too. Martin made a
comedy CD called "These Are Jokes", which was released via COMEDY
CENTRAL Records® in 2006 and his "Trendspotting with Demetri
Martin" has been a featured segment on the Emmy® and Peabody®
Award-winning "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" since December
2005. Martin was featured in his own one-hour stand-up special for
COMEDY CENTRAL, "Demetri Martin. Person." (which was also released
on DVD by COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment® and Paramount Home
Entertainment). Beginning this month, the "Important Things with
Demetri Martin" Web site will debut new interactive site features
and weekly video content, both exclusive and show-based. Viewers
can watch outtakes and deleted scenes and view picture galleries
featuring artwork from the show. The Important Things IQ will all
be featured in a new online game and users can relive choice
moments from last season via themed "rewind" clips. "Important
Things with Demetri Martin" is produced by Busboy Productions and
Person Global with executive producers Demetri Martin, Charlie
Siskel, Michael Koman and Jon Stewart. Zoe Friedman serves as
executive in charge of production for COMEDY CENTRAL. COMEDY
CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more
than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and
is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned
division of Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE:VIANYSE:andNYSE:VIA.B) MTV
Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is
http://www.comedycentral.com/. For up-to-the-minute and archival
press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY
CENTRAL's press Web site at http://www.comedycentral.com/press.
DATASOURCE: COMEDY CENTRAL Corporate Communications CONTACT: Marie
Raubicheck, +1-212-767-8561, Web Site:
http://www.comedycentral.com/
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