Sunday , March 14, 2010
Dear Demitri Martin: I Love You, Sort Of
One very gross and drizzly Friday afternoon a couple weeks ago, I spent an entire bus ride to Hollywood with my hood pulled way far down over my head and my face buried in the issue of New York magazine with Demitri Martin's shaving-cream-covered, possibly cute mug on the cover. I hated the world a little bit that day, and I had a hard time telling whether or not Demitri Martin was worthy of some tiny smidge of non-hate (something to be doled out oh-so-sparingly on gross/drizzly Friday afternoons when the bus is so damn crowded and the dude next to you keeps coughing on your head). Before reading the cover story I only knew D.M. as The Fourth Conchord (and/or the vastly less offensive half of The Crazy Doggz), which of course put him very much in my favor. But then three columns into the New York story, the writer says how Demitri's like a stand-up comedian Wes Anderson would dream up, and some big part of me went bleccccchhh, despite the fact that I generally love Wes Anderson (for better or worser). Plus, I don't trust people who ride unicycles.
But it's stupid to try to figure out whether you love or hate a comedian without actually just sitting and watching said comedian tell his jokes. So over the course of the past two weeks I've viewed the below video about 10 times, and now I can say with complete certainty that I love Demitri Martin, sort of. He gets 1,000 points for wearing blue PJs and playing acoustic guitar throughout his entire stand-up set, but then I have to subtract about 20 points for the Wes Anderson-esque preciousness of such posturing. (Sorry, I'm a jerk!) My favorite gag's the one that starts at 1:01, but the bits about the naming of B vitamins and carrots are pretty classic as well. You should watch his new Comedy Central show, maybe, and then tell me if this weird-haired boy is worth loving all the way.
Tags: Demitri Martin, Flight of the Conchords, jokes about B vitamins, unicyclists are untrustworthy, Wes Anderson
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i just watched demitri's show 'If' the other day, definitely good entertainment for a cold grey friday night. it's all puzzles & codes & points, it made me love him a little bit too, sort of.
By sarah on February 24, 2009 8:41 AM
i'm so curious! the comedy central clips are all fragmented and annoying. why can't they put it on hulu? waaaah....
By Liz
on February 24, 2009 1:46 PM