If you watch “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on a regular basis, then you’ve probably seen Demetri Martin doing his recurring feature, “Trendspotting,” or possibly “Professional Important News with Demetri Martin.” Maybe you’ve seen his Comedy Central stand-up special. Perhaps you remember him as the keytar player in the first-season finale of “Flight of the Conchords,” or from his role as a music video producer in “The Rocker.” If your local cable company provides you with a network that actually shows music videos, then perhaps you spotted him in the video for Fountains of Wayne’s “Someone to Love.”

Or if you’re a Britpop fan, then perhaps you caught him in the video for Travis’s “Selfish Jean.”

Recognize him now…? If so, then you’ve probably just had a flashback to some routine or other and had a good laugh (as if the videos themselves aren’t worth a chortle or two themselves), but you should go ahead and prepare yourself for a lot more laughter when Martin’s new Comedy Central sketch comedy series, “Important Things with Demetri Martin,” premieres on February 25th.

Martin came onstage for his panel by declaring, “This is the best time to do comedy, by the way, just after 10:00 in the morning,” but despite that facetious statement, he managed to provide us with the funniest few minutes of the tour to date.

For those in the audience who weren’t familiar with him, Martin offered up his stats, including his height (5’11”) and his extensive food allergies. “Seafood, poultry, and nuts,” he explained. “It’s pretty serious, anaphylaxis, it could kill me, but I’m still pretty tough despite that. If I avoid those foods, I can hang with anybody. I’ve got a lot of stamina. Thai chicken pizza with shrimp added to it would be the worst thing I could ever eat. I think the peanut sauce, the poultry and the seafood all in one. I was out to lunch with some people and three of them got Thai chicken pizza and one person had shrimp with it. And it was terrible. Terrible.”

The clips of “Important Things” that were shown prior to Martin taking the stage struck me as hilarious, a mixture of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” “Mr. Show,” and any number of other subversive sketch comedy shows. “Those are some of the least funny parts of the show,” he claimed. “I wanted to show the shittiest stuff so that then everyone would be even more surprised with how excellent it is after that. So if you liked any of that, I think you’ll really like the rest of it.”

He’s also worked out exactly who his target audience is: the entire world. Well, technically, anyway.

“I’m not going to discriminate anybody with eyes or a head or ears or anything,” he assured us. “But the bull’s-eye is America. I’m going for the United States, mostly. Not in a threatening way. I think when you say ‘target’ and ‘bull’s-eye,’ you start thinking bombing. But I’m going for positive attack, I guess you would call it. Then I started thinking, okay, we have about 300 million people in the country. Look, realistically, if I get a third of those people, that’s a hundred million people watching this show. So that’s great. That takes a lot of pressure off, because that means 200 million people I don’t even care about, 200 million people can hate the show and it really doesn’t matter. I can disregard that two-third right off the top. So we’re going just for the hundred million that are the core of my demo.”

In truth, it’s clear that the same audience who likes “The Daily Show” will find “Important Things” very funny. Martin’s comedic influences include Steven Wright, Woody Allen (particularly his written work), and Gary Larson (creator of “The Far Side”), and his guest stars in the first season include John Oliver (“The Daily Show”) and Jon Benjamin (a.k.a. Coach McGuirk from “Home Movies”). There will not, however, be any sign of the host of “The Daily Show.”

“The glow of his star permeates the show,” said Martin, “but the star itself…? Yeah, he’s not in this series. He just…I think he’s funny, but he’s just not right for the show.”

Don’t worry, though: from what I’ve seen, “Important Things” doesn’t need Jon Stewart. It does just fine with just Demetri Martin.

“Important Things with Demetri Martin” premieres February 11th on Comedy Central.