This Is a Book

Demetri Martin

Apr 2011 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book.

Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and conceptual pieces (such as Protagonists' Hospital, a melodrama about the clinic doctors who treat only the flesh wounds and minor head scratches of Hollywood action heroes), as well as his trademark charts, doodles, drawings, one-liners, and lists (i.e., the world views of optimists, pessimists and contortionists), Martin's material is varied, but his unique voice and brilliant mind will keep readers in stitches from beginning to end.

Ratings and reviews

It was hilarious! This is a book for all demetri martin fans. If you aren't a fan, then you should look him up because he is one in a million. How often do you see a skinny, ambidextrous, guitar-playing guy tell you jokes!?

He's so clever and witty and at the same time, simple and straightforward. The modern master of one liners. His drawings will have you bursting. Check out his other book, exclusively of drawings, Point Your Face at This. Go see him live. Guitar, harmonica, piano, one liners, and "Large Pad" (of drawings). Amazingly talented.

I read this book and liked it. There were a few really funny parts, but some of his stories weren't that funny.

About the author

Demetri Martin rose to relative obscurity when he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City at the end of the 20th Century. Later he became a writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien and then a regular performer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2003, Demetri won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival for his first one-man show, If I. He released a comedy album called These Are Jokes and then created and starred in his own television series called Important Things with Demetri Martin.

His first stand-up comedy special, Demetri Martin. Person is considered by many to be his longest and only hour-long stand-up comedy special. Martin has appeared in movies as an actor, most recently in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and most lengthily in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock. His first book, This Is a Book by Demetri Martin is a New York Times Bestseller. Demetri has brown hair, and he is allergic to peanuts. You can find him at www.demetrimartin.com, at www.facebook.com/demetrimartin, on Twitter @demetrimartin, and in various places in the actual physical world.