This morning, Patton Oswalt and Marc Maron happened to be on the same flight from NYC to LA. They couldn't sit together, as Patton was in first class and Maron was stuck in coach. So they did what came most naturally: they tweeted at each other from different parts of the airplane. And it was wonderful. Here's the full exchange, in chronological order for your easy reading pleasure:
Patton Oswalt had to drop out of this weekend's Ebertfest Film Festival last minute due to the shooting schedule of his new movie, which sucks! But you know, these things happen. Not the end of the world! But Oswalt used the cancellation as an opportunity to write a lovely piece on his website about just how large an influence Ebert's had on him, and it's really wonderful. But as far as my tastes in cinema go, it was the yearly editions of Roger's Movie Home Companion, all through the eighties, which led me upwards towards Ozu and Welles, downwards to Sybil Danning in The Howling, Part II [...]
Columentary (title sadly not pending) is a weekly feature, in which I’ll listen to the commentary track of a sitcom, and divulge, through pretty pictures and less pretty words, the behind-the-scenes secrets the creators, writers, and cast discuss about their show. If you've ever questioned why Roseanne had that Godzilla toy, this is for you.
Show: Spaced
Episode: "Ends" (S01E07)
Original Airdate: November 5, 1999
Episode Plot: Tim's (Simon Pegg) ex-girlfriend is back, and Daisy (Jessica Stevenson) isn't sure what to think. Mike (Nick Frost) also attempts to reenlist with the Territorial Army.
Players Involved: Edgar Wright, director, and Patton Oswalt, special guest
Patton Oswalt will appear on an upcoming episode of Two and a Half Men as Ashton Kutcher's ex-business partner. The Venn diagram of people who are super-into Oswalt and super-into Men probably isn't huge, but this has gotta be exciting news for those 10 people.
Young Adult is not only one of the best comedic films of the year, but one of the best films of the year. It’s about time comedic performances can be considered brilliant performances.
It’s wonderfully sublime, hilarious, dark and poignant, made possible by the perfect combination of filmmakers, writers, and actors. The plot is quite simple — a recently divorced, former popular prom queen Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is now making a living ghostwriting a series of young adult novels. After her high school boyfriend sends her pictures of their newborn baby, Mavis decides the only time she was happy was with him, so she returns to her small [...]
From July 12th to the 29th, comedians of all sorts will descend upon Montreal for the 30th Just For Laughs festival. Performers include: Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Bob Saget, John Pinette, Lewis Black, Jim Gaffigan, Patton Oswalt (who will also be the keynote speaker), Wayne Brady, Mario Cantone, and The Muppets. Chelsea Handler will be there accepting and, if her reputation serves her correctly, celebrating, her Comedy Person of the Year award. Also, Key & Peele will be receiving the Breakout Comedy Star award and Hannibal "The Accolade Machine" Buress will be named the Rising Comedy Star. We should all go but we have to make sure [...]
There is something quaint, almost reassuring, about watching Patton Oswalt as a stammering host, wearing a white on white ensemble, nervously spinning his wristwatch with his left hand while gripping the microphone tightly with his right. The video is from 1993, before really either Oswalt or Maron had been doing standup for too long, and it's nice to see them before their respective Oscar buzz and New York Times profiles. The video comes from former comedian Marty Higgens's Vimeo channel, where there is also the below video of Patton Oswalt wearing a backwards hat and a red blazer, which I assume he purchased from J.C. Penny's Do The Right [...]
Fox has ordered a pilot presentation from American Dad co-creator Mike Barker for Working Class Hero, a comedy "set in a world where superheroing is just another low-paid government job." Patton Oswalt's voice will star as the voice of a superhero/husband/dad. Fox has had a tough time finding great animated comedies (for every Bob's Burgers, there's an Allen Gregory and a Napoleon Dynamite), but you never know: this could be the new Simpsons or Family Guy protegé they've been waiting for.
Jimmy Fallon offered up a new spin on his traditional reading of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, mad-libbing it with guests Martin Short, Patton Oswalt, T.I., Maya Rudolph, Jesse Eisenberg, Jack McBrayer, Brian Williams, Zac Efron, Howie Mandel, Jason Segel and Walter the Muppet. I don't want to spoil too many of their beautiful, reverent verses, so I shall only say this: Merry Christmas to all, and to all a fried penis.
In this excellent PSA for the Alamo Drafthouse, Jason Reitman kicks Patton Oswalt out of a theater for texting during the movie. "There's no need for you!" It's followed by an incredible reading of a customer voicemail that uncovers the massive scam perpetrated by the theater to rip people off by …kicking them out of movies when they're breaking the rules! This would NEVER happen in a reglear theater. Because that isn't a word.
It’s no secret that sometimes comedy is taken a bit too seriously. Comedy obsessives love not just the jokes, but the mechanics and emotions of the comedy world. There are a raft of comedy documentaries exploring comedy and comedians, but do they really have anything significant to add to the discussion? This series looks at comedy documentaries and whether they’re interesting, insightful, and possibly even…funny?
If The Unbookables is the punk rock version of comedy tour, The Comedians of Comedy is its indie hipster cousin.
The tour, led by Patton Oswalt and featuring Maria Bamford, Zach Galifianakis, and Brian Posehn, played rock venues to younger audiences who couldn’t [...]
Patton Oswalt may star with Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as "Todd, a friendly eHarmony counselor." This is the role he was born to play, ladies and gentlemen.
CBS has picked up Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone's 37-year-old-living-at-home sitcom, just a few weeks after ordering the script. They must've thrown a lotta good "grown man walking in on his parents having sex" jokes in there!
Parks & Recreation will be the host of a West Wing reunion later this season, when Bradley Whitford guest stars as the departing councilman whose seat Leslie wants. Tragically, he'll have no actual [...]
This week on Conan, it's Making Fun of Popular Christmas Carols Week, where a different guest every night deconstructs one of the carols you hear twenty times per CVS visit and berates it until it is simply too ashamed of itself to play for the remainder of the holiday season. Alright, that isn't a real theme week YET, but someday, when I have my own talk show, I will devote it entirely to bitching about Christmas songs. You'll see. You'll all see.
