These Are Jokes Reviewed

Chortle have reviewed Demetri Martin's These Are Jokes, currently running at the Soho Theatre in London.

Although on the whole a good review, it does include pish like this...

"Such delivery treats each gag as an exhibit to be venerated, like a work of art behind a Perspex case which you should contemplate intellectually from all angles. The laughs mostly come from well-deserved admiration, rather than any connection on a more fundamental emotional level."

He deconstructed the use of a theatre curtain when I saw him as well, though I never thought him genuinely baffled.