Martin Sargent

Martin Sargent
Martin Sargent, April 2007
Born	August 18 1975 (1975-08-18) (age 32) Spencerport, New York
Occupation	co-host
Website	Sargeworld

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.

Biography

Sargent is the host of the comedy podcasts Infected and Web Drifter. 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 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. At the close of the 50th and final episode of Infected, it was announced that Sargent would host a new show called Internet Superstar on Revision3.

Credits

Television

• VH1 40 Greatest Internet Superstars - Contributor (2007)
• Unscrewed with Martin Sargent - Host (2003 - 2004)
• The Screen Savers - Contributor (1999 - 2003)
• Call for Help - Contributor (1998 - 2001)

Podcasts/Vidcasts

• DigitalLife TV - Segment Host, CES Special (2006)
• Infected - Host (2005 - 2007 )
• Web Drifter - Host (2006 - )
• Internet Superstar - Host (2008 -)

Other

• .net Magazine - Columnist (2007)
• TechTV's Digital Video for the Desktop - Author (2002)
• PC Computing Magazine - Editor (1998)
• College Pro - Crew Chief (1996)
• Wilson Harold - Editor (1992 - 1993)

External links

• Martin Sargent on Myspace