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Demetri Martin

( Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times )

Demetri Martin, 36, has the lead role in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, a big part opposite Brad Pitt in next year's "Moneyball" and his own Comedy Central television series Important Things With Demetri Martin. Not bad for a Yale-educated historian and law school dropout who says comedy remains his first love and primary interest."

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