Demetri Martin has an obsession with puzzles and word games and, in particular, has a gift for writing palindromes. Below are are few of the palindromes he has written. (also see his beer bottle poem)

'Dammit I'm Mad' - a 224 word palindrome by Demetri Martin about a drunk mailman)

Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.

(poem from Demetri's website)


Demetri answers a question by Sean O'Neal in the form of a palindrome:

AVC: You're about to film a stand-up special for Comedy Central. What can we expect from that? If possible, can you put your answer in the form of a palindrome?

DM: Wow. O.K.
A still animal sits afoot. Tones I ring.
I sing (i.e. ride it, nuts open). On or off, I riff.
Uh… I, to lasses, say, "Oh aha, hah, all!"
It's tops. It is a Tao, bro, to my baby demo.
Can one poet arise so rosy?
As "D" I star. Comedy, baby. My my, a show.
Oh say "my my," baby.
Democrats? I'd say so. (Roses irate.)
Open, on a comedy baby motorboat. As "it"
I spot still a "ha hah!" ahoy. Assess a lot.
I huff, I riff, or on one post untied, I reign.
I sign. I rise, not too fast.
I slam. In all, it's a K.O. wow.

(Read the full interview here)


Demetri likes this palindrome because it is good advice as well as a compliment:

"snub no man. Nice cinnamon buns"
(Quotes from article by Jesse Baker. Read full article here)


Demetri’s palindrome creating ability also featured in his one-man-show ‘If I’ (palindrome) where he describes his photographs with palindromes such as:
‘sexes’
‘no lemon no melon’
‘Mmm a hammm’
‘dude, dud?’
‘stuns nuts’
‘GI boots too big’
‘el cycle’
‘ten AM, lonely, Tylenol, Manet’
‘Yo, Aloha, Hola, Oy!’

See the palindromes in action in Episode 3 of ‘If I’ at YouTube.com


Other palindromes:

Show title - 'If I'

"son I'm odd, Domino's?"
(quote from Gothamist article. Read full article here)