For some time Comedy Central has been running ads during The Daily Show for a new show called something like “Important Things with Demetri Martin.” Most of the ads have shown little other than a young man playing guitar and harmonica, tho I have seen a couple where he draws a fraction and a clock.
The guy reminds me of every overly self-satisfied young kid I’ve known who thinks he is so damned special. Not a thing about these ads has made me the least but interested in checking this out. Of course, I’m 48, and likely not the target audience. But they have been running the ads during one of my fave shows …
Have any of you had a less than unfavorable response to these ads? Are you looking forward to this show? If so, I’d appreciate it if you would explain what you find attractive.
Haven’t seen the ads. I have no idea how it will be as a show, but he certainly is funny. It’s a quirky sort of intellectual humor that might or might not be your style, but it’s quite lighthearted and grows on you.
As with almost any entertainment/creative output, some people will like it, some will not.
Anyone who comes up with the idea of actually graphing female attractiveness versus how long you’d listen to them talk about their cat has me in their target audience.
I’ve never seen his stand up or otherwise heard of him before.
Just the ads.
And if they wanted to design ads to make me less want to watch a show, they’d have a hard time doing it.
I HATE him on the Daily Show, but the stand-up special was pretty funny. His humour worked much better than I would have thought. It might be intersting.
The ads really do nothing for me. My boyfriend assures me that this kid is pretty funny, but I told him I’ll believe it when I see it. The stuff about how diving is just showing off while falling? Lame as hell. And his delivery is crap, too, like he’s just bored and has to stand there and talk anyway.
I agree, the ads are not doing his schtick a good service. Demetri’s funny sort of creeps up on you; it’s impossible to capture in 15 seconds.
I do encourage you to give the show a try, but of course not having seen it I can’t vouch for it. Maybe I’ll be apologizing to you on Thursday morning! But if you like dry intellectual humor, his stand-up might be up your alley.
I kind of think of Demetri Martin as a live-action xkcd.
maybe I’m at the age where, with 3 kids aged 17-21, I’ve encountered far too many young people who think they are just so damned clever, while consistently contributing the least to anything of value. The 15 second blurbs remind me too much of many such young people I dislike most.
By sheer coincidence I was watching some comedy special of his and I was actually amazed by the actual intelligence behind his humor. He did a dorky joke about palindroms, but then had one that was something like 250 lines of text as a poem in the the studio audiences program. Jeebus! :eek:
A lot of his jokes seemed to take a long time to build, so I thought it felt a lot more like a one man play rather than routine stand-up schtick.
Haven’t seen the commercials referred to in the OP.
I love his stand-up, but the show… not so much. There’s a stupid superhero character and some dumb recurring jokes that were never funny to begin with. He’s best when he’s just doing his bits, alone or with a big notepad.
I’m surprised you’ve never seen him before, Dinsdale, as he was a semi-regular Daily Show contributor for a while (he did those “Trendspotting” segments). Example 1 (on video resumes). Example 2 (on Viacom vs. YouTube).
I liked his Daily Show bits, and his stand-up special on Comedy Central was hilarious. The ads you’re referring to probably have that tone that rubs you the wrong way because, being a Comedy Central viewer, you’re expected to be familiar with him. If you’re not, I can see how they’d seem presumptuous.