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The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
Demetri Martin
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Demetri Martin
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 25
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Demetri Evan Martin
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Americans who do not celebrate Independence Day: pets.
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Man is the most powerful creature on the planet. And we're arrogant. I mean, people own birds. It's like, there's a creature with the gift of flight. I want it. I'm going to put it in my kitchen and make it crap on old information.
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The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.
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Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.
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I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.
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Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.
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A jerk on a motorcycle is equal to a leaf, because I find it beautiful when these things fall.
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One thing you never hear is Man that guy is good at badminton.
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Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.
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I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.
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You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.
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Another thing that I like and that's fun for me is to try and talk and play music at the same time, because I feel like I'm learning something. There are these little challenges built into it it's a way to push myself a little bit more as a performer.
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The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.
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If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.
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I go the gym and I try to run on the treadmill and I listen to music but it doesn't motivate me enough. So I'm going to get a recording of a pack of wolves gaining on me. People would be like, 'Why is that guy crying on that treadmill over there?' 'I don't know, but he's been yelling, 'help' for like 20 minutes. He's getting a good workout.
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I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.
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I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.
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Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
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I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable.
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Popcorn is one of the only situations in which you eat the result of an explosion.
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