Important Things with Demetri Martin
Comedy Central | Release Date: February 11, 1999
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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80
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: You'll find an important (and rare) thing: an off-kilter show that's at once smart, outlandish and very funny. Read full review
80
Washington PostMichael Cavna
Season 1 Review: 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
75
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: 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
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: 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
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: 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
70
The New York TimesPeter Keepnews
Season 1 Review: 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
60
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: 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
60
VarietyStuart Levine
Season 1 Review: 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
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