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Janeane Garofalo | November 13

Tracy Morgan at the Wilbur Theatre

Unwigged & Unplugged at The Wilbur Theatre

Demetri Martin

FRIDAY, APRIL 10
We’re not sure whether it’s the mop-top ’do, the faux smart-aleck persona, or his high-intensity doodling on that oversized sketch pad that’s always propped up on an easel beside him, but lately we can’t get enough of the eponymous host of Comedy Central’s new Important Things with Demetri Martin. Sure, he cut his teeth as the often disillusioned youth correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but we suspect Demetri Martin developed his sharp comic timing while on the writing staff of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Or maybe it’s an instinct he honed while he was a student at New York University’s law school. (If the latter is the case, little wonder he dropped out before graduating.) Regardless, the self-proclaimed “standard nerd” will bring his ironic humor — and his easel — to the Wilbur Theatre (246 Tremont Street, Boston, 617.931.2000). Catch his comic tour before you see him go serious as the lead in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, due out this summer. For tickets ($37), got to www.ticketmaster.com or call 617.931.2000. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 9: Rhys Darby

Rhys Darby is from New Zealand. He’s our favorite thing to come out of New Zealand since ... okay, so we can’t remember the last thing from New Zealand that we ran out to see/buy/hear/taste. So as far as we’re concerned, Darby is an accidental ambassador for Kiwi cultural life. Best known for his portrayal of Murray, the incompetent band manager on HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, Darby does a mean beat box and a spot-on impression of a helicopter propeller, and he can channel a tyrannosaurus so well that you’ll think you’ve crawled through a wormhole to Jurassic Park. Don’t expect a crash course in an exotic nation’s history when he appears tonight at 7 p.m. at the Wilbur Theatre (246 Tremont Street, Boston. 617.248.9700). Do expect tales of a less-than-idyllic boyhood, disclosure of mermaid fantasies, and plenty of laughs. Tickets ($25) are available at www.ticketmaster.com or 617.931.2000.