COMEDY CENTRAL(R) Home Entertainment Releases 'Important Things With Demetri Martin: Season One' DVD -- Hitting Stores on Tuesday, September 8

COMEDY CENTRAL(R) Home Entertainment Releases 'Important Things With Demetri Martin: Season One' DVD -- Hitting Stores on Tuesday, September 8

Bonus Materials Include Deleted Sketches, Commentaries, A Free Tiny Poster And Other Bonus Things Celebrity Cameos By Jon Benjamin, David Cross, Amanda Peet And John Oliver

NEW YORK, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- "Important Things With Demetri Martin" is a stream-of-consciousness sketch and variety show from comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode focuses on a single topic through the prism of Demetri's specific point of view, whether it's Brains, Chairs or Coolness. Released via COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, "Important Things With Demetri Martin: Season One" DVD arrives in stores nationwide on Tuesday, September 8 and will also be available at http://shop.comedycentral.com/.

"Important Things With Demetri Martin: Season One" DVD is a single disc and features the following bonus features: deleted sketches, commentaries, a free tiny poster and other bonus things.

Stand-up comedian, Emmy -losing writer and all-around person, Demetri Martin is the creator, executive producer and star of "Important Things with Demetri Martin." In this sketch comedy series, Martin mixes stand-up comedy, sketches, animation, studio bits and music to explore one "important thing" per episode - like Power, Safety or Games. For example, Martin explored the subject of "Timing." The episode included a sketch about a man who uses time travel to meet women, a sketch about an actor with terrible timing, plus cartoons, jokes and a performance piece that all relate to "Timing." Martin's jokes, drawings and hair all appear in the series. There are also some celebrity cameos by Jon Benjamin, David Cross, Amanda Peet and Martin's "Daily Show" colleague, John Oliver.

Demetri Martin (www.demetrimartin.com) dropped out of NYU School of Law to pursue comedy. Since then, he has performed in most of the English-speaking countries in the world (not in South Africa or New Zealand, though) and won trophies for comedy in America, Scotland and Australia. Martin was a staff writer for "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and has appeared on a lot of late-night television shows. He made a stand-up CD/DVD, "These Are Jokes," which was released via COMEDY CENTRAL Records in 2006 and his "Trendspotting with Demetri Martin" has been a featured segment on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" since December 2005. Martin was featured in his own one-hour stand-up special for COMEDY CENTRAL, "Demetri Martin. Person." (which was also released on DVD by COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment).

Future projects for Martin include the lead role in the upcoming Ang Lee film, "Taking Woodstock," for Focus Features which is slated for release on August 28, 2009. He is writing the feature script, "Will," for Paramount Pictures. He is also co-writing, with James Bobin, the feature script, "The Moon People," for Sony Pictures with Mosaic Media Producing. Martin is also planning to clean up his apartment some time in 2009.

Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) is part of Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment. PPC is a unit of Viacom (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:VIA.B) , a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands. PHE is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment products on behalf of various parties including: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Paramount Famous Productions, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, CBS and PBS and for providing home entertainment fulfillment services for DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment.

COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:and) (NYSE:VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL's press Web site at www.comedycentral.com/press.

MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:VIA.B) , is one of the world's leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual worlds and consumer products. The company's portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 350 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, The N, AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, Atom, Gametrailers and Xfire.

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CONTACT: Renata Luczak of COMEDY CENTRAL, +1-212-767-8661,
renata.luczak@comedycentral.com, or Brenda Ciccone of Paramount Home
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