i remember on my old blog, i posted a video of Jeff Dunham, one of my fave comedians… well, i found out that not alot of people know any standup comedians, other than the famous ones (Eddie Murphy, Jerry Sienfeld, Bernie Mac, Chris Rock & Richard Pryor).. so i might start something like an “Introducing” series… so today we start with the first piece of this segment…

 Introducing: Demetri Martin..

 You can check his website if u want, but i don’t think the videos work properly cos they’re Quicktime and u can’t control the buffering and playing of them… anyways, i love this comedian cos he reminds me of Steven Wright, Mitch Hedberg, Jerry Sienfeld & Stephen Lynch… he has real-life observations (like Sienfeld) but he doesn’t exaggerate the story or observations and uses one-liners (like Wright & Hedberg) and he sometimes uses background music or songs for his jokes (a tiny little bit like Lynch, but without the rhyming and the subjects are random) and everything’s easy to imagine… what’s fun about this guy is that he has his friends and family helping him out with his shows and performances… If you download his Comedy Central special, near the end of the show, he has his friends dressed up to help you imagine “the place where his jokes come from” which made it more hilarious, the way they come out and interact with him is great… he’s cool and calm but the punchlines are obvious…

Examples of his jokes:

“Swimming is a confusing sport… sometimes you do it for fun… other times you do it to NOT DIE… sometimes i don’t know why i’m swimming… so i have to go by the outfit: Pants: uh oh.. Bathing Suit: okay… Naked: We’ll See..”

“I was in a department store… riding the escalator… and i tripped… i fell down the stairs for an hour and a half..”

btw, you should start a compilations album called “Swair Introduces” on your iTunes cos after every “Introducing” post, i’ll be adding an audio or video link to something i love about the artist/comedian… so here’s a song by him, featuring his friend Will Forté.. or Robo-Will as Demetri calls him… this is called The Personal Information Waltz (7 minutes and 12 seconds of funniness, just click on the link and save the track)… Demetri tells the jokes and plays the keyboard and Will adds the crazy singing musical component to the song…

i hope you like this series and you enjoy all the audio clips that you can download
 UPDATE: A Demetri Martin Video.. check it out! (Warning: the two jokes posted before the video are mentioned in this video but with a different wording)

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