New York-Based Publications Love Demetri Martin
Chances are, if you've read a newspaper or magazine with "New York" in the title recently, you've read something cool about Demetri Martin and his Important Things. Last week, The New York Times ran a profile of him, and now he's on the cover of the new issue of New York Magazine. Here's some of their interview with Demetri:
He sometimes likes to think of these short jokes as fractals, an idea he came across while reading James Gleick’s Chaos. “I thought, this is so interesting, this concept of self-similarity—how, if you have infinite resolution, you can see a pattern in a system repeating itself again and again.” In other words, he figured that if you can compose a successful six-word joke, you can build a six-minute set. And if you build a successful six-minute set, you can build a 60-minute act. And with a 60-minute act, you can conquer the world—or, at least, the nerd-hearted portion of the world that’s likely to respond to a comedian who’s prone to thinking of his jokes as fractals.
If you don't want to read the rest of that, I think we should see other people.
Important Things with Demetri Martin premieres Wednesday, February 11 at 10:30pm/9:30c.
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