Editing Demetri Martin (section)

== Comedic style ==
[[File:Demetri Martin in 2012.jpg|alt=Martin covering his eyes with his hand|thumb|right|Martin in 2012]]
Martin is known for being an unconventional stand-up comic. He uses [[one-line joke|one-liners]] and drawings on a "large pad", as well as accompanying his jokes with music on either guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboard, [[glockenspiel]], toy bells, [[ukulele]], or [[tambourine]], sometimes all at once.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytexanonline.com/1.1370449-1.1370449 |title=Comedian Demetri Martin's 'Important' TV Show Fails at Funny |work=[[The Daily Texan]] |date=February 20, 2009 |access-date=January 25, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214204620/http://dailytexanonline.com/1.1370449-1.1370449 |archive-date=February 14, 2009 }}</ref> His style is often compared to [[Mitch Hedberg]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ent-demetri-martin-comedy-review-1010-story.html?outputType=amp|title = Demetri Martin is most himself with his one-liners at the Vic| website=[[Chicago Tribune]] | date=9 October 2017 }}</ref> He has cited comedian [[Steven Wright]] as an important influence (both use deadpan one-liners in their acts) as well as ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoonist [[Gary Larson]]. He has submitted cartoons to the [[The New Yorker|''New Yorker'']] magazine at its invitation – and had them rejected. "You gotta get better at drawing. These aren't funny enough."<ref>http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-817-lesley-stahl-demetri-martin Martin told comedian Marc Maron in 2017</ref>

Martin plays instruments on stage and has music playing in the background of his performances as a way of preventing any editing of his performances to better fit for television.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nerdist.com/2012/12/nerdist-podcast-demetri-martin/ |title=Podcast: Demetri Martin |publisher=Nerdist |access-date=2017-05-16}}</ref> However, Martin has also confessed a desire to evolve his comedic style.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-817-lesley-stahl-demetri-martin|title=Episode 817 - Lesley Stahl / Demetri Martin|date=5 June 2017 |access-date=4 May 2018}}</ref> <nowiki>"I love one-liners, I love jokes...but I also want to talk about how I feel. I want to talk about below-the-neck stuff. It's hard, if that's not where your head goes, it's hard to get comedy out of that...[But] I want to dig deeper, I want to connect in a different way with the audience."</nowiki>