"This book embodies the essence of Demetri's comedy to perfection, which is a good thing since he wrote it. Silly but incredibly smart, it's exactly what puts me in awe of his work."-Will Ferrell"When I first saw Important Things With Demetri Martin, I said to myself, "this is the funniest thing ever." I was wrong. This Is A Book is better." -Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success"This book is so funny I forgot to laugh. I know that sounds like a childish criticism, but I mean it literally: This book is so funny, I forgot a whole bunch of things—who I am, what I stand for, large chunks of my childhood, my sense of equilibrium, how to fall asleep, and when I'm supposed to laugh at things."-Chuck Klosterman"Demetri Martin has a very funny and original mind. If I could draw a graph explaining how funny and original he is, I would. But I don't do that. Demetri does that."-Conan O'Brien"Throughout, Martin jokes in many guises, silly one moment, barbed the next, and he achieves a satirical brilliance." -Publishers Weekly"The best [material] would be at home in one of Woody Allen's classic books...Martin has energy to burn." -Kirkus
Demetri Martin This Is A Book
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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 was considered by many to be his longest and only hour-long stand-up comedy special until the release of his second special, Demetri Martin: Standup Comedian in late 2012. 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 was 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.
Still fresh-faced, Martin is already a master of short-form comedy: He shines in staccatos. Although the book features several impressive longer pieces, including "Sheila," the story of a dead woman who falls in love with a man who lives on earth, and their subsequent relationship woes, and "We're Pregnant," an essay about an expectant couple's affected misuse of pronouns, much of the lengthier prose hits the same notes over and over again. Overall, this collection is best suited to being left around the house in conspicuous places and read sporadically, in bits. Luckily, This Is a Book has a lovely cover.
The book's first page, a simple "preview" of many lines and shapes he uses, acts as a sort of table of contents. "It might also be a way to say, 'Hey, I know it said 'drawings' on the cover, but lower your expectations -- this is the skill set you're going to see in here. It's not da Vinci,' " Martin says.
Beyond his books and stand-up, Martin is developing an animated series for Fox -- about a family with a roadside attraction in the redwood forests of Northern California -- and some film projects. First up is "Will," a long-in-development screenplay with "The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius at the helm. Martin won't star in it, but says, "I wrote a character I think I might be perfect for." He's also writing a feature on spec that he would like to star in -- and direct, though he's never done the latter. "I think I might direct a short this summer so people don't think I'm crazy," he says.
With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times best-selling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one. Along with hilarious and poignant stories he has never shared before, this audiobook is sprinkled with poetry Jen wrote as she navigated the same rocky shores of new parenthood. 2ff7e9595c
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