![]() ![]() It is easy to read Martin and sometimes hear Jerry Seinfeld’s granular tangents of observational humor. ![]() And if you relish literary humor, “This Is a Book” is a book for you. If you delight in writing that deconstructs comedy even while constructing it, his self-aware style will appeal. If you like random, short-attention-span riffs built on pithy comic premises, Martin’s your man. Language is his plaything - fodder to be prodded and poked and twisted till it yields bent-perspective laughs. Besides two-way spellings, he also trains his relentlessly inventive brain on acronyms and epigrams, graphs and rules of grammar, charts and doodle art. Martin will flash a few anatomical hahas - one must oblige one’s core Comedy Central demographic - but he likes “boob” mainly as a fast-punchline palindrome. More precisely, this is a Book Review of “This Is a Book,” a work so wryly titled because comedian Demetri Martin mines the very nomenclature of things for askew humor, joyfully toying with the meanings and associations and sounds of words themselves. ![]()
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