This Is a Book

From the renowned comedian, creator and star of Comedy Centrals Important Things with Demetri Martin comes the paperback debut of his bold, original, New York Times best-selling humor book. THIS IS A BOOK was an instant and long-lasting New York Times best seller, and is the renowned comedians hilarious foray into prose comedy. In these pages, Martin expands on the sensibility hes developed on stage as an award-winning stand-up comedian and on television as a writer-performer on Late Night with Conan OBrien, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and his own Comedy Central series, Important Things with Demetri Martin. Featuring narrative essays, short stories, and conceptual pieces (such as Protagonists Hospital, where doctors treat only the shoulder wounds of Hollywood action heroes) as well as Martins signature drawings, absurdities, and one-liners, THIS IS A BOOK delivers sharp jokes, colorful characters, and interesting surprises. Martin takes readers to places as far-off as Ancient Greece (Socratess Publicist) and the distant future (Robot Test, where everyone must take a test to prove that they are not robots). He recounts a lonely mans visit to a strip club in the form of a five-hundred-word palindrome (Palindromes for Specific Occasions). And he examines the human condition (Human Cannonball Occupational Hazards) and the competing world-views of divergent groups (Optimist, Pessimist, Contortionist). Martins material is varied, but his unique voice and brilliant mind will keep readers in stitches from beginning to end.