Martin Sargent
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| Martin Paul Sargent | |
 Martin Paul Sargent, April 2007
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| Born | August 18, 1975 Spencerport, New York |
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| Occupation | Host |
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Martin Paul Sargent (born August 18, 1975 in Spencerport, New York) is an American television personality. He is most well known from his time as a Segment Producer on TechTV's The Screen Savers and later as the host of his own late night talk show Unscrewed with Martin Sargent.
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[edit] Early life
Sargent studied History and English at the University of London, Cornell University and Syracuse University.
[edit] Career
Sargent's first job after school was as an editor at PC/Computing magazine.[1]
In 1998, Sargent joined the ZDTV (later TechTV) TV show Call For Help as the show's "Resident Craft Professional" and substitute co-host. In 2001, he moved from Call For Help to another TechTV show, The Screen Savers, and became known first as "The Twisted Lister", for producing and presenting odd, "twisted" top-five lists on the show, and later for another segment, "Site of the Night", in which he presented strange websites.
Sargent left The Screen Savers in April 2003, to host his own show, Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, anchoring a newly introduced late-night programming block.
On March 25, 2004, Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV. This move became hugely controversial among loyal fans of TechTV. Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there.[2] Sargent chose to stay with G4 and moved to Los Angeles.
Six months later, on November 11, 2004, G4TechTV cancelled Unscrewed and terminated Sargent, along with many other former co-workers from TechTV.[3]
Exactly one year after his termination, Sargent launched Infected, a comedy podcast distributed by the internet production company Revision3. Infected was hosted by Sargent and The Gator (portrayed by co-writer Jay Speiden), produced by Joey Rabier, and was structured as a conversation between co-hosts and producer, with fake "commercials" for various real and fictional products as well as occasional guest callers. Recurring callers included inventor Alex Chiu as well as the fictional characters Johnny O'Banion (portrayed by co-writer/producer Stewart Engesser), a Hollywood reporter and former Loni Anderson paramour, and karate master Rickey Kang (also played by Spieden). O'Banion and Kang were recurring characters on Unscrewed, and Rabier acted as a production assistant on the show and also appeared as his "intern" character for selected skits. The podcast was originally available in audio-only format, then offered an alternative video version comprised of a montage of still photographs relating to the topic discussed and taken at the recording session. The video version has since been offered in full-motion video. Infected was canceled in December of 2007, after 50 episodes.
Sargent currently hosts Web Drifter[4] and Internet Superstar on Revision3 and Why Today Sucked, on GoTV Network's "Laugh Riot" channel, available for video-enabled cell phones on the Sprint network. Web Drifter began as a pilot originally pitched to Comedy Central, but it was picked up by Revision3 after the cable network passed on the show.[1]
On January 30, 2008, the Revision3 website released the first episode of Martin Sargent's new show, Internet Superstar.
[edit] Credits
[edit] Television
- Call for Help - Contributor (1998 - 2001)
- The Screen Savers - Contributor (1999 - 2003)
- Unscrewed with Martin Sargent - Host (2003 - 2004)
- VH1 40 Greatest Internet Superstars - Contributor (2007)
[edit] Podcasts/Vidcasts
- Infected - Host (2005 - 2007)
- DL.TV - Segment Host, CES Special (2006)
- Web Drifter - Host (2007 - )
- Internet Superstar - Host (2008 - )
[edit] Other
- Wilson Harold - Editor (1992 - 1993)
- College Pro - Crew Chief (1996)
- PC Computing Magazine - Editor (1998)
- TechTV's Digital Video for the Desktop - Author (2002)
- .net Magazine - Columnist (2007)
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