• ISBN13: 9781538729045
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication Date: September 12, 2017
• Pages: 192
• Original Price: USD 15.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 272 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons, Form / Jokes & Riddles, and American / General

New York Times bestselling author of This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, Demetri Martin returns with another laugh-out-loud collection of hilarious drawings.

If It's Not Funny It's Art

Packed with hundreds of new illustrations and one-liners, If It's Not Funny It's Art is a peek into the ingenious mind of author/comedian/filmmaker Demetri Martin. Exploring the meaning of art, life, death, ennui and the elegant fart joke with a sensibility all its own, this collection is a perfect gift for word lovers, art appreciators and fans of Demetri's unique brand of comedy. Sure to make you laugh out loud, and if it doesn't, then you know it's art.

Demetri Martin rose to relative obscurity when he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City at the end of the 20th Century. Later he became a writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien and then a regular performer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2003, Demetri won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival for his first one-man show, If I. He released a comedy album called These Are Jokes and then created and starred in his own television series called Important Things with Demetri Martin.

His first stand-up comedy special, Demetri Martin. Person is considered by many to be his longest and only hour-long stand-up comedy special. Martin has appeared in movies as an actor, most recently in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and most lengthily in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock. His first book, This Is a Book by Demetri Martin is a New York Times Bestseller. Demetri has brown hair, and he is allergic to peanuts. You can find him at www.demetrimartin.com, at www.facebook.com/demetrimartin, on Twitter @demetrimartin, and in various places in the actual physical world.