So, naturally, Martin uses sketches in his book, too. Martin also likes to use drawings in his act - in fact, sketching on a large pad of paper was a trademark of his Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin. "It's pretty deep stuff I put in the book here," Martin says with a laugh. He says, "Snub no man, nice cinnamon buns." (Try it. In one example, a head baker at a bakery is instructing a new employee about how to deal with customers, when he suddenly notices what the new baker has made. Martin calls his collection of palindromes "Palindromes for Specific Occasions," and includes a description with each one to clue readers into what it describes. But he adds that it's also a sequence of letters or words - even sometimes numbers - that reads the same forward or backward. Martin jokes that most of his material is short and inane, but his section on palindromes reveals his keen talent for wordplay.Ī palindrome is, at least functionally, "a phrase or sentence that you might say that might create awkward silence with other people," Martin says with a laugh.
"Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron." "The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door." They range from tongue-in-cheek to wryly clever: "They are short little ideas, so I could just put a sentence or two, and then move on to the next one," he says. In another section, "Epigrams, Fragments and Light Verse," Martin echoes his stand-up style with brief but hilarious snippets.
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