{"id":215595,"date":"2026-04-02T04:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:56:09","slug":"comedian-demetri-martin-to-play-the-straz-center-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215595\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Demetri Martin to play the Straz Center | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 Comedian Demetri Martin will take the stage on Saturday, April 11, 8 p.m., in Ferguson Hall, at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $49.40. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/strazcenter.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strazcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin may be best known for his stand-up work, but he\u2019s also a screenwriter, a director, and an actor; an essayist and a cartoonist. He often incorporates music and drawing into his stand-up, and his humor is some of the best of the offbeat variety since Steven Wright.<\/p>\n<p>Martin rose to relative obscurity doing stand-up comedy. He was a writer for \u201cLate Night with Conan O\u2019Brien,\u201d a regular performer on \u201cThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart,\u201d and starred in his own television series, \u201cImportant Things with Demetri Martin.\u201d Martin has appeared in many films including Ang Lee\u2019s \u201cTaking Woodstock.\u201d His books, \u201cThis Is a Book\u201d and \u201cPoint Your Face At This\u201d were both New York Times bestsellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Comedian Demetri Martin will take the stage on Saturday, April 11, 8 p.m., in Ferguson Hall,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13426,8973,98322,276,5168,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-215595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-comedian","9":"tag-comedy","10":"tag-demetri-martin","11":"tag-hillsborough-county","12":"tag-straz-center","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}