Important Things with Demetri Martin: Season 1

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Comedy Central | Season Premiere Date: February 11, 2009

Starring: Demetri Martin

Summary: The Daily Show's Demetri Martin debuts his own sketch-comedy show.

Creator: Demetri Martin

Genre(s): Comedy

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E7. Games
Air Date: March 25, 2009
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S1:E6. Coolness
Air Date: March 18, 2009
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S1:E5. Safety
Air Date: March 11, 2009

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Heather 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

Michael 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

Maureen 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

Peter 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

Rob 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

Stuart 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

Ray 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

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JamesW

Feb 26, 2009

Awesome show i have always loved his show