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January 11, 2005
Demetri's show was excellent.
Although it was late at night, the Demetri Martin show was great. I was able to stay wide awake, although some others with me were having a difficult time making it through. I could have done without the opening act (two guys from here on campus). And the language throughout the night was a little rougher than I would have preferred (most of which was from that opening act), but by comparison to nearly all other comedy shows, this was a pretty clean show.
Very funny material. I've heard quite a few of the jokes before, but many of them had a new take... One of the jokes about sweater vests protecting you from pretty girls was made 10x funnier when Demetri turned to the interpreter and said "sorry, man"... because he just so happened to have on a sweater vest.
That same interpreter works in my Tuesday/Thursday Intro to Multimedia Class, so I talked to him today and said that I enjoyed seeing him on stage with Demetri. (who couldn't stop trying to do funny stuff with the interpreter... not unlike most comedians who perform at RIT). The interpreter said that Demetri was really a nice guy and asked if there was anything 'taboo' or not, etc.
So, a GIANT thumbs-up for Demetri Martin. Exactly my kind of humor. Now, if he would just get his website together a little bit more.
(not his website)
One other good link that I hadn't seen before: Demetri Martin's weeklong electronic journal (published in Slate) for a week in May of 2004.
Posted by Andrew at January 11, 2005 03:20 PM
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I saw him on Comedy Central yesterday and really liked his act. I wish I would have known about him sooner, his show would definately have been worth the drive to Rochester.
Posted by: JR at January 17, 2005 02:09 PM