Demetri Martin Grand Rapids reviews
Good, not great
Demetri’s opener was awesome. It helped that he was from the area and had some great Florida jokes. When Demetri came out, the crowd was revved up for that same level of fast-paced joke telling, which is not Demetri’s style. The first couple jokes feel flat after he brought up COVID and how he didn’t really have a lot of material that covered current events. We, as an audience, already knew that.
His jokes about “dogs and balloons” were just ok. The best part of the show was his notepad of funny material that played like a late night talk show host playing a game with the audience. Think Jimmy Fallon’s “Thank you notes” skit. The night’s finale was Demetri trying to do some crowd work and admittedly, the crowd was giving him almost nothing. It was an ok show and we had a fun night. It wasn’t worth the money though, mostly because there wasn’t a lot of new and innovative improvements to his earlier stuff.