Demetri's beer bottle poem from his website and can also be seen in Episode 2 of 'If I' (watch at YouTube.com )
Women, your ability to operate
extra tender
springs from birth.
Good machinery comes
as your contents
cause enjoyment.
Cash, beer, a car ... rock and rolling?
During "it", the general warning:
"We may risk pregnancy
according to old problems."
Your refund from the government
for alcoholic beverages?
Not OK.
Refund this premium, beer surgeon,
because premium beer impairs taste.
A drink—to the tribute of health, to the pale alcoholic.
Rolling, glass tanks of beverages rock this lined mountain.
Should the defects
of consumption
drive me ...
Or you?
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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)
(poem from Demetri's website)
Demetri answers a question by Sean O'Neal in the form of a palindrome:
(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)
'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)
Demetri presented his one-man-show 'If I' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2003. The Perrier Award winning show is based around his obsession with puzzles, and takes a look into what made the comedian what he is today. He explains, 'I wrote the ... show while I was there, not even knowing that I'd do it at the festival. One ting led to the next, and I found myself performing the show 25 nights in a row."(1)
He was invited to the festival by comedy agent Hannah Chambers and it was his first trip to Europe. He therefore, like most people in America, had no understanding of the weight of the Perrier Award he was soon to win, stating " At first, I thought they gave out a bunch of Perrier awards every year. People were talking about it, but i was just happy they were coming to see the show. I remember riding my bike the night before and thinking it would be cool to win it just so I wouldn't ever have to be in it again." But he did win, and he continued to return there each year with a new routine, such as 'Spiral Bound', 'These are jokes' and 'Dr Earnest Parrot Presents'. However he at first found the idea of the festival difficult because "it's hard turning comedy into a contest. Maybe you like one style more than another, but it's not necessarily better, it's just different."(2)
Demetri's obsession with puzzles came from reading puzzle books to entertain himself at school and while working in the family diner (see biography). In Demetri's analytical way, he discovered "while writing this show ... that it (puzzles) was a way to feel successful. I was a small kid who wasn't got at sports or with girls. Puzzles were a contained world of problem solving with a definite end point."
Brain Logan (from Guardian) describes the show as consisting of 'two parts confessional to one part comedy.'(3) Which it is. As Demetri describes it in the show, it is "a story about when one mans obsessive analytical mind goes too far and turns on itself." The show is about the 5 different definitions of the word "if" and how they apply to Demetri's life, 'I'. A very philosophical show mixed with some solid comedy.
Episode 1:
The first meaning of 'if' - 'In the event that'
Describes how Demetri became addicted to puzzles and his idea about his future.
Episode 2:
The second meaning - 'although pissibly, even though'
Demetri reminisces about moving from doing tto puzzles to creating them. He creating 3D cross word puzzles which went down, across and back, and he claimed were "three ways to say, 'I'm lonely.'" He desrcibes how he would set himself challenges such as writing with his left hand and reading the dictionary and learning every word in ten block chunks. The episode also includes his hilarious list of "useless talents" (appearing at 5.20), his hand sewn pants (8.35) for the purpose of the show and his beer bottle poem (0.45).
Episode 3:
The third meaning -'whether'
Demetri discusses his time in law school, dropping out and "what happens when you remove the plan ... You're left with a guy who like anagrams and doesn't have a job. Sweet, that's a catch."
An excellent example of Demetri's ability to create palindromes.
Episode 4:
Fourth meaning - 'used to introduce an exclamatory cause, indicating a wish'
Demetri explains how he started categorising his life, using a point system to becaome a better person, asking himself "can using my time better, lead to being more productive?" He describes this time as a "breakthough slash breakdown."
Episode 5:
Follows his journey of using the point system for 27 weeks and the 'analysis of the analysis' of himself. The maximum possible score per week was 35, and he averaged 11, failing his own little test.
Episode 6:
Fifth meaning - 'a possibility, condition, or'
Demetri discusses what his life would have been like had it taken a different course and concludes with the equasion that I= 'if + if + if....) / Time
Watch 'If I' on YouTube.com -
Episode 1 (9.01 mins)
Episode 2 (9.05 mins)
Episode 3 (9.04 mins)
Episode 4 (9.04 mins)
Episode 5 (9.02 mins)
Episode 6 (3.17 mins)
References
(1) Independent Interview, 17 August 2004 - Read full article here
(2) Find Articles, 8 August 2004 - Read full article here
(3)BBC Four Interview, 25 August 2005 - Read full article here
He was invited to the festival by comedy agent Hannah Chambers and it was his first trip to Europe. He therefore, like most people in America, had no understanding of the weight of the Perrier Award he was soon to win, stating " At first, I thought they gave out a bunch of Perrier awards every year. People were talking about it, but i was just happy they were coming to see the show. I remember riding my bike the night before and thinking it would be cool to win it just so I wouldn't ever have to be in it again." But he did win, and he continued to return there each year with a new routine, such as 'Spiral Bound', 'These are jokes' and 'Dr Earnest Parrot Presents'. However he at first found the idea of the festival difficult because "it's hard turning comedy into a contest. Maybe you like one style more than another, but it's not necessarily better, it's just different."(2)
Demetri's obsession with puzzles came from reading puzzle books to entertain himself at school and while working in the family diner (see biography). In Demetri's analytical way, he discovered "while writing this show ... that it (puzzles) was a way to feel successful. I was a small kid who wasn't got at sports or with girls. Puzzles were a contained world of problem solving with a definite end point."
Brain Logan (from Guardian) describes the show as consisting of 'two parts confessional to one part comedy.'(3) Which it is. As Demetri describes it in the show, it is "a story about when one mans obsessive analytical mind goes too far and turns on itself." The show is about the 5 different definitions of the word "if" and how they apply to Demetri's life, 'I'. A very philosophical show mixed with some solid comedy.
Episode 1:
The first meaning of 'if' - 'In the event that'
Describes how Demetri became addicted to puzzles and his idea about his future.
Episode 2:
The second meaning - 'although pissibly, even though'
Demetri reminisces about moving from doing tto puzzles to creating them. He creating 3D cross word puzzles which went down, across and back, and he claimed were "three ways to say, 'I'm lonely.'" He desrcibes how he would set himself challenges such as writing with his left hand and reading the dictionary and learning every word in ten block chunks. The episode also includes his hilarious list of "useless talents" (appearing at 5.20), his hand sewn pants (8.35) for the purpose of the show and his beer bottle poem (0.45).
Episode 3:
The third meaning -'whether'
Demetri discusses his time in law school, dropping out and "what happens when you remove the plan ... You're left with a guy who like anagrams and doesn't have a job. Sweet, that's a catch."
An excellent example of Demetri's ability to create palindromes.
Episode 4:
Fourth meaning - 'used to introduce an exclamatory cause, indicating a wish'
Demetri explains how he started categorising his life, using a point system to becaome a better person, asking himself "can using my time better, lead to being more productive?" He describes this time as a "breakthough slash breakdown."
Episode 5:
Follows his journey of using the point system for 27 weeks and the 'analysis of the analysis' of himself. The maximum possible score per week was 35, and he averaged 11, failing his own little test.
Episode 6:
Fifth meaning - 'a possibility, condition, or'
Demetri discusses what his life would have been like had it taken a different course and concludes with the equasion that I= 'if + if + if....) / Time
Watch 'If I' on YouTube.com -
Episode 1 (9.01 mins)
Episode 2 (9.05 mins)
Episode 3 (9.04 mins)
Episode 4 (9.04 mins)
Episode 5 (9.02 mins)
Episode 6 (3.17 mins)
References
(1) Independent Interview, 17 August 2004 - Read full article here
(2) Find Articles, 8 August 2004 - Read full article here
(3)BBC Four Interview, 25 August 2005 - Read full article here
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