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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... read more
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Quotes edit
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“"I don't know what his problem was, but the magazine I was hanging out with abruptly got up and smacked me twice for no reason."”
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“One thing you learn pretty quickly with a megaphone is that it's hard not to say 'Step right up!' through it. For me that proved to be most problematic at carnivals and soup kitchens. I discovered that if there's one thing carnies and soupies have in common it's that they do not like to 'step right up' and then find that there's nothing there besides a guy with a megaphone”
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“"Regarding the Marching Band: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band."”
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“Synonymous: Two questions that are essentially the same are 'How old do you think I am?' and ' Are you ready to feel awkward no matter how you answer this question?'”
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“"Nine Lives?'All you need to know is that each of the cats pictured here was already dead before we took any of these nine photos."”
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“"We found a lump on your neck.Optimist: It's probably just a cyst. Pessimist: Oh God, I'm going to die.Contortionist: That's my toe."”
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“And suddenly everything made sense. I knew what I had to do. I needed to quit my job. But before I could do that I needed to get a job to quit. Ideally, one that would suddenly make everything make sense when I quit it."”
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“When we have a beer, just one beer, by the way, we're getting yelled at for it, even though we never explicitly said that we both had to stop drinking. We're explaining to us, in our defense, that we're not both actually pregnant here.We just went crazy for saying that.We now understand that we're 'both actually pregnant' here.”
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Thank you for coming to the show.
Themes & Symbolism edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Demetri Martin (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 25, 2011
ISBN: 0446539708
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 25, 2011
ISBN: 0446539708
Page Count: 288
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PN6165.M358 2011
- Dewey: 818.607
Subjects edit
Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Demetri Martin: Author's website.
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