Comedian Demetri Martin brings his Let’s Get Awkward Tour to Meadow Brook Amphitheatre on Friday, July 28 at 8 p.m. Jeff Horste will open the show.

Tickets at $55, $35 and $25 pavilion-only go on sale this Friday, March 24 at 10 a.m. at The Palace Ticket Store and all Ticketmaster locations. Tickets may also be charged by phone to American Express, Discover, Visa and MasterCard by calling 800.745.3000.  

Martin started his stand-up comedy career in New York City, and caught his first big break when he appeared on Comedy Central's stand-up showcase Premium Blend in 2001.  From 2003 to 2004, Martin wrote for Late Night with Conan O'Brien where he and his colleagues won the Writers Guild of America Award.  In 2005, he became a contributor on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central.

In 2003, Martin won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival for his first one-man show, If I.  He won the Barry Award at Australia’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2006 for his third one-man show, Dr. Earnest Parrot Presents Demetri Martin.

Martin has released two standup comedy albums and three hour-long standup comedy specials, including his latest for Netflix in 2015 titled Demetri Martin Live (at the time).  He created and starred in his own television series for Comedy Central called Important Things with Demetri Martin.  Martin has appeared in several feature films and television shows, including Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock and Showtime’s House of Lies.  He recently wrote and directed his first feature film, titled Dean, which is set to be released in the U.S. on June 2^nd.

His first two books, This Is a Book by Demetri Martin (2011) and Point Your Face at This (2012) are both New York Times Bestsellers.  His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy and Esquire.  

You can find Demetri online at www.demetrimartin.com, at www.facebook.com/demetrimartin, on Twitter at @demetrimartin, and somewhere in the actual physical world too.