Martin Sargent
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Martin Sargent (born August 18, 1975 in Spencerport, New York) is an American television personality. He studied history and English at the University of London, Cornell University and Syracuse University.
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[edit] Biography
Sargent is the host of the comedy podcast Infected. He is the former host of the TechTV late night talk show Unscrewed with Martin Sargent.
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. In May 2004, TechTV was purchased by G4TV and Sargent and his show were forced to move from TechTV's homebase of San Francisco to G4's homebase of Los Angeles. Six months later, on November 11, 2004, G4 cancelled Unscrewed and terminated Sargent.
Exactly one year after his termination, Sargent launched Infected, a comedy podcast distributed by Kevin Rose's Revision3 Corporation production company. Infected is hosted by Sargent and The Gator (portrayed by co-writer Jay Speiden), produced by Joey "The Intern" Rabier, and is structured as a conversation between co-hosts and producer, with fake "commercials" for actual products and occasional guest callers. Previous callers include inventor Alex Chiu and 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 as well as 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 cut-together still photographs of the recording session. The video version has since been offered in full-motion video.
Sargent also hosts Web Drifter 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. Martin Sargent also dated X-Play host Morgan Webb.
[edit] Credits
[edit] Television
- Unscrewed with Martin Sargent - Host (2003 - 2004)
- The Screen Savers - Contributor (1999 - 2003)
- Call for Help - Contributor (1998 - 2001)
[edit] Podcasts/Vidcasts
- DigitalLife TV - Segment Host, CES Special (2006)
- Infected - Host (2005 - )
- Web Drifter - Host (2006 - )
[edit] Other
- TechTV's Digital Video for the Desktop - Author (2002)
- PC Computing Magazine - Editor (1998)
- College Pro - Crew Chief (1996)
- Wilson Harold - Editor (1992 - 1993)
- .net Magazine - Columnist (2007)
[edit] External links
| Revision3 Network |
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| Revision3 Corporation |
| Revision3 podcasts |
| the broken | Ctrl+Alt+Chicken | Diggnation | Geekdrome | iFanboy | InDigital | Infected | Mysteries of Science | notmtv | PixelPerfect | Systm | The Totally Rad Show | Web Drifter |
| Revision3 show hosts |
| Alex Albrecht | Jeff Cannata | Hahn Choi | Jessica Corbin | Dan Huard | Bert Monroy | Kevin Rose | Martin Sargent | Heather Stewart | Dan Trachtenberg | Wil Wheaton |
| Former Revision3 hosts |
| Andrew Hawn | Jonathan London | Diane Mizota |
