Demetri Martin’s wordplay-filled humor translates ridiculously well to book form, as this collection of drawings and short humor shows. His best pieces expose absurd situations with exaggeratedly forthright reactions (a man obsessed with speaking into a megaphone, a Rashomon-esque recount of a bee sting that includes inanimate objects) while the least successful ones run with simple concepts far longer than necessary, such as the list of bugle performances that all include reveille or the protagonists’ hospital where male action heroes get treated for superficial wounds. Fortunately the hilarious far outweighs the lame, making this book a damned funny read.
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