I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.
Demetri MartinMy friend has hand soap that smells like coconut. It's nice. Unless your hands are dirty from coconuts.
Demetri MartinI call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.
Demetri MartinI was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".
Demetri Martin