Once We Were Late Clowns with Edi Patterson | Episode 30

Once We Were Spacemen

Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk

Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Edi Patterson is one of those performers who commits so fully you forget you're watching someone act. Righteous Gemstones and Vice Principals fans need no introduction. Alan witnessed her brilliance firsthand on Resident Alien, where she played the tallest, most beautiful, most unhinged avian alien in the universe. Their characters’ scenes had a way of going places no one planned, including one that should have been nominated for an MTV Best Kiss Award. Nathan has his own evidence: Edi recently picked up a script she'd never seen, walked to center stage, and immediately developed a speech impediment. Follow Once We Were Spacemen wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to extended episodes a whole week early by joining our Patreon. Once We Were Spacemen is a Collision33 production.

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0:00.0	And then these two girls walked up.
0:02.8	And I had like the window down just a little bit.
0:05.3	And I was like, are they coming to my car?
0:08.7	Oh, no.
0:09.7	They walked up.
0:10.6	They were like these like tough 20 year olds.
0:14.0	And they looked in the window and they go, I was a clown, obviously, from what I'm about to tell you.
0:18.9	You go, you're late clown.
0:24.1	And I went and just rolled up the window and looked forward and drove away.
0:29.4	And never went thanks.
0:35.4	Once we were spacemen.
0:37.1	Space men. Base men. Once we were Spaceman I tend to play weird people, usually aliens and robots and things that don't have romance.
0:49.3	I once didn't get a job where they were looking for a Nathan Philean type.
0:56.3	Once we were Spaceman.
0:58.5	Once we were Spaceman.
1:00.5	Alan, you've worked with Edie.
1:03.6	Yes.
1:04.8	You speak of her often and fondly because of how good she is.
1:12.1	And Alan, you need to work with people who are who can contend with you at the very least.
1:18.7	That's nice.
1:19.9	It is really fun, though, when you are, you know, you know what this is like.
1:24.1	When you've got somebody who's what frank oz would call chops they got chops
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