DEMETRI MARTIN IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF A NEW BREED OF YOUNG COMICS WHO GET LAUGHS WITH ACERBIC, RELAXED OBSERVATIONAL HUMOR. HE’S BEEN CALLED ‘THE VOICE OF GENERATION Y’ AND HIS WRITING AND STAND-UP WORK HAVE EARNED HIM CRITICAL PRAISE AND AWARDS AT BOTH ‘THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL’ AND HBO’S ‘ASPEN COMEDY FESTIVAL.’ A GRADUATE OF YALE, DEMETRI DROPPED OUT OF LAW SCHOOL SEVEN YEARS AGO TO PURSUE COMEDY FULL TIME. HE HAS SINCE BEEN SEEN ON ‘THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN,’ ‘LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY,’ AND THREE TIMES ON ‘LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN’ WHERE HE ALSO SERVED AS A STAFF WRITER. HE HAS HIS OWN ‘COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS’ AND RECENTLY HAS BEEN A CORRESPONDENT ON ‘THE DAILY SHOW.’
Added by shanan on January 2, 2006