If you do and we catch you, one or both of your lips may be removed from the building. You are not permitted to lip‑sync any portion of the show. Please mentally avoid the performer's outfit altogether. Also, do not mentally put silly outfits on the performer or mentally touch any part of the performer's clothes. Please do not mentally undress the performer. Any recording devices that we find will be taken away from you and juggled recklessly by the clown you see standing near the left exit. This includes both audio and video recording, as well as sketching, journaling, documenting, making mental notes reminiscing, reviewing, or remembering anything at all with your mind. Also, there is no recording of any kind allowed during the show. Please pay attention.įlash photography is not permitted at any time during the show. Before tonight's performance begins there are a few announcements. 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.

This is a Book by Demetri Martin