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Important Things With Demetri Martin
EMAILPRINTSERIES: Comedy Central, Wednesday 10:30p (30 minutes)
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 8 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 45 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Created By:
Demetri Martin
Jon Stewart
Beth McCarthy-Miller
First Air Date: February 11, 2009
Summary
Starring Demetri Martin, Jon Benjamin, Natalie Gold, Meghan Rafferty, Damian Schilles, Becky Ann Baker, Tom Kane, Jon Kohler, Chazz Menedez, and Dan Ziskie
The Daily Show's Demetri Martin debuts his own sketch-comedy show.
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
SalonHeather Havrilesky
You'll find an important (and rare) thing: an off-kilter show that's at once smart, outlandish and very funny.
Read Full Review >Washington PostMichael Cavna
Think the deadpan Steven Wright, only cheerier and more versatile. A stand-up comic and sometime cartoonist, Martin seems cursed with endless postgraduate cleverness.
Read Full Review >Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
The surreal comedy of Steven Wright is clearly an influence on Martin (one of Martin’s jokes: “I wonder if there were any Goths in Gothic times”), but Important Things also has a boldly silly streak.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesPeter Keepnews
Is he ready for his own weekly half-hour show? Judging from the first two episodes of Important Things With Demetri Martin, which makes its debut on Wednesday night on Comedy Central, the answer is a qualified yes.
Read Full Review >Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Some of the humor works less well--Martin playing five instruments while flipping through a sketch pad is more strange than funny--but Martin is clearly a smart guy and his intellectual humor succeeds more often than it fails.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Important Things is inconsistent--the sketches are on the whole less funny than the stand-up, but they have their moments, and the show is on the whole worthwhile.
Read Full Review >Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
As is the case with nearly all sketch-comedy series, this one from "The Daily Show" alum Demetri Martin--and produced by Jon Stewart's Busboy Prods.--is very much hit-and-miss, with the misses outnumbering the hits in the first installment and the hits predominating in the second.
Read Full Review >VarietyStuart Levine
Like "Saturday Night Live," "Important Things" is often hit and miss, but the simplest way for Martin to smooth over the bumps would be to become more comfortable in the stand-up segment.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 45 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Hill B. gave it a10:
It was hilarious!!! "These are Jokes".
Cole M. gave it a10:
I love this show. Demetri Martin is my favorite comedian and I hope I will grow up to be as funny as him!!!
Bridger P. gave it a6:
I love demetri's stand-up shows, as I was like him when I was a child, but this show, he tries to be tooooo funny and you can tell he is just trying to be funny. Okay for the younger demographics, but can get slightly annoying
bob s gave it a10:
Demetri Martin is amazing!
Ellen gave it a10:
Can't wait for Season 2!!!!
Pat H. gave it a10:
there better be a second season its amazing
Tara K gave it a10:
Demetri Martin is hilarious. He's intelligence and humor mixed together makes excellent nerd comedy! I look forward to his next season!
