Does writing for the web allow you to do weirder, more experimental stuff? Yeah. The few things that I find popping into my head regularly are: I went to one of his shows, and he usually does a segment where he interacts with the audience. God, am I reviled? For me, it was PBS and watching documentaries, when I could find them. That's easy, though. With the show I was like, “let’s talk about the brain or space.” So it was kind of an exercise. To be not one man emanating is sad. There’s a lot about technology and social media and just the onslaught of content that I find overwhelming and hard to manage, and sometimes discouraging. Both, one… my names are in it. I wanted to use a different skill set, and a different set of muscles. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. I didn’t even read that much as a kid. Why did you decide to make this project as a web series? I can do stuff in my little zone. You have to change your expectations about validation, or audience response, or any of that stuff, but it feels rewarding in a different way. Were there particular inspirations in crafting your character, Ted Rimmarniet? As a comedian, is the short-form arena exciting, simply for the creative freedom it grants you? I’m not a big technical reader; I’m like anybody. I do one liners not by accident, but it’s really where my head goes when I’m writing. It didn’t have a name when we were making this. I feel like a whole new plane of existence has been opened to me. I had the opportunity to make a pretty specific little show, and it’s certainly not for everyone. Was there a learning curve there? Dammit I'm mad. Carl Sagan’s definitely the starting point for me—I’ve always been a big fan of Carl Sagan, so I thought, “Oh, that would be kind of funny.” Because it’s now such a different time than when the original Cosmos was made, the reference ends up being, I think, not as universal as it would have been, I don’t know, 15 years ago. My first stop is usually documentary—NOVA and 3-2-1 Contact and all these shows were a big deal for me when I was growing up. I thought that might work for this format. It also causes the viewer to listen more closely, awaiting a punch line that may or may not come. For me, if I see it in terms of a larger development process for an idea or a character, then it feels like a great opportunity, rather than maybe an endpoint in itself. In a sense, yeah. Alas, it is so late.

In stand-up, he is known for his deadpan delivery, playing his guitar for jokes, and his satirical cartoons. I guess I could be a hermit and go try to find some other existence, but I don’t see that happening. Man, it is hot. All Rights reserved.

I feel like what’s great about it is, if you have ideas that are percolating, or that you’re trying to develop on your own, it gives you a chance to put them up on their feet. In a way, I think you and I might be saying the same thing, which is it’s kind of relevant, but it wasn’t on purpose. I had this idea in my pocket for a while, because I’m a fan of shows like Cosmos, and I’ve loved documentaries about science, and NOVA since I was a kid. That’s one of my big goals now. Had the pleasure of seeing him perform live in a fairly small venue a few years ago. Later, I became a reader, almost after college, and non-fiction still draws me first. If it’s too random, it does just break apart pretty quickly.

Demetri Evan Martin (Greek: Δημήτριος Ευάγγελος Μάρτιν, Dimitrios Evangelos Martin; born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, director, cartoonist and musician. and his response was, "Oh, I have a joke about that. I’m obsessed with that economy of words and I try to get it down to just the simplest ideas. I'm a fool.

This Article is related to: Television and tagged Demetri Martin, Digital, Funny or Die, go90. I’m in my 40’s, and I haven’t been in school for a while, so I’d probably do very poorly on tests involving these subjects. Sin is a name. Some facts I just wanna share with you. This measured speech drives home Rimmarniet’s self seriousness, exaggerating the ridiculousness of his claims. Even if they’re just jokes, I’m still putting a lot into them. I’m a longtime fan of shows like “Nova” and “Cosmos.” I saw the original “Cosmos” when I was a kid, and I thought it would be fun to make something that played with that world a little bit. Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here. I haven't heard of him in a long time. ", Bird pranked is one that's stayed with me. Oh, sit in ample hot spots. I did need to know enough about what I was departing from so that it kind of made some sense, and I was surprised in making those little episodes how much of a narrative I did need. You can come up with an idea and make something, and they tell you right away, “Yes, no, that’s good, that doesn’t work, that’s funny; we accept that from you, or we don’t.”. No. I'm 100% sure he's a genius by most metrics, Scirtem tso my bs uine gas e her us %001 Mi. He has a palindrome in his book This Is a Book that's nearly three pages. While it was exhausting, I’m looking forward to making more movies. We want to hear from you! We made it while things were getting worse, let’s say, and then everything got worse than I or my friends could have imagined, in where we are politically and nationally. It was really about writing jokes about science without having to shoot tons of original scientific footage. READ MORE: ‘David’ Review: ‘Marcel The Shell’ Meets ‘Twin Peaks’ In Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Surreal Series Starring Nathan Fielder. Is evil in a clam? There’s a new generation of people who maybe don’t know about Carl Sagan, so I thought it’d be fun to start there. On it I was stuck. Murder? Having my first movie under my belt, I’m excited to write more scripts, and hopefully get bigger budgets along the way. With his feature directorial debut, Dean, rolling out in theaters this month, Martin also recently created Our Fascinating Planet, a short-form, Cosmos-inspired series, in which he plays Ted Remmarniet, a puffed-up, self-absorbed scientific educator.

For my film, that involves putting my heart out there. If I spend less time on it, then I can appreciate the bits of it that I like more. All rights reserved. It’s a way for me to share something that feels much more intimate and personal without going onstage and telling my life story. That weighed into what I was writing, too, because I wanted him to have some argument that was maybe just a little inappropriately personal, or paternalistic or something. There was this platform, go90—I believe it’s now retired, but they were looking for original content to populate the go90 app and website.

I’ve never been good at that. Martin is known for his one-liners, but Rimmarniet is a fully inhabited character whose entire demeanor elicits chuckles. I am not a That’s mostly why I don’t do political comedy because my brain just gets overloaded. But I like reading the layman’s books to things like astronomy or physics or psychology; whatever it is. Oh no! I was surprised, at the end of the day there was so much that it neutralized that idea.