Important Things with Demetri Martin

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Season 1
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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Critic Reviews

  1. Salon
    Reviewed by: Heather Havrilesky
    80
    You'll find an important (and rare) thing: an off-kilter show that's at once smart, outlandish and very funny.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael Cavna
    80
    Think the deadpan Steven Wright, only cheerier and more versatile. A stand-up comic and sometime cartoonist, Martin seems cursed with endless postgraduate cleverness.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    75
    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.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    70
    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.
  6. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    70
    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.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Peter Keepnews
    70
    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.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    60
    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.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Stuart Levine
    60
    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.

Awards & Rankings

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#38 Best TV Season of 2009
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#49 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009
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#75 Most Shared TV Season of 2009

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User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 76 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 76
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 76
  3. Negative: 12 out of 76
  1. HunterH
    Dec 15, 2009
    9
    I love this show. Demetri's interstitials are very well done. His stand-up is a little dry and relies on a lot of editing genius. I love this show. Demetri's interstitials are very well done. His stand-up is a little dry and relies on a lot of editing genius. However a funny show over all.… Full Review »
  2. SamS
    Dec 2, 2009
    2
    Martin is not amusing. He finds himself much funnier than he is, and that is insanely bothersome to me.
  3. HillB.
    Aug 24, 2009
    10
    It was hilarious!!! "These are Jokes".
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