Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?

Important Things with Demetri Martin Season 1 (2008)


Rating 3.5/5.0
where 5.0 is a mutant animal called The Mighty Boosh

I don't do TV series on this blog.

When you see good comedy that's come out in this century, nearly everything seems derivative of (a) Monty Python (b) Blackadder, (c) Red Dwarf, (d) Arrested Development (e) Friends (f) ____________ (g) _________________ (h) ____________ (i) _________________ (j) _______________ etc etc

Fill in your favorite comedy series from the 60s to 90s and you're done.

So Demetri Martin doesn't come in as a fresh breath of hair....but he succeeds in deriving creatively and adding stuff which atleast to me looks freshly ground. The show won't make you laugh till you drop (that does happen but only once in a while) but it does do really well when it comes to catching my limited attention span for new, untried tv shows -

Demetri plays guitar, drum pads and harmonica at the same time while singing silly songs
Demetri says - Hello, my name is Demetri Martin
Demetri always pushes the Joke button first on his paper button console
Demetri has an expressionless skit face when he does skits which you will come to like slowly, painfully
Demetri likes sketching and sometime he does neat little smarty pants things with his skethces

Also, Demetri is lazy and sometimes doesn't do enough to make it just right - which sort of makes you want to get hold of Season 2 - just to be sure.

Imdb link here
Buy it here Important Things with Demetri Martin: Season One