Patton Oswalt on Comedy, Classic Films, and Turning 50

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Patton Oswalt recalls coming up as a comedian at the dawn of the alt comedy scene, his first gig in Hollywood as a writer for Mad TV, and his prolific side gig as a script doctor on some of the biggest box-office hits of the past two decades. He reminisces about his friendship with the owner of LA’s most famous revival cinema and his love of the films of Billy Wilder and Sidney Lumet. Then Patton discusses his new Netflix special Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything, finding love again after the death of his first wife, and turning 50. Plus he talks about going to college in that wild party town of colonial Williamsburg, the time he donated to the crowdfunding page of one of his Twitter trolls, and how he got Netflix to build him a house for his new comedy special! Watch Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything streaming on Netflix beginning May 19. Follow Patton at www.pattonoswalt.com or on Twitter at @PattonOswalt. Please subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts and follow us on Facebook at Kickass News or on Twitter at @KickassNewsPod. You can also visit www.kickassnews.com for more fun stuff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.6	There was one big change. I will give 50 this. The one big change for me was all of a sudden
0:52.6	my breakfast cereal became deadly serious. Like overnight, I remember recently my breakfast cereal
1:02.0	was fun. The boxes were bright and there were words like sugar and pow and crisp.
1:10.5	You turn the box over and there was a word find or a maze, a maze, help sugar bat get to his
1:17.7	insulin and now all of all of my breakfast cereal. First off, the box is white,
1:31.9	hospital, white and there's a beige bowl, a color of beige I like to call bargaining beige.
1:43.6	How many bowls of this do I have to eat so I can have one cool ranch Dorito at three o'clock
1:50.6	today? How many? That was a clip from the new Netflix comedy special Pat and Oswald. I love
1:58.4	everything out on May 19th. The Emmy and Grammy-winning comedian reflects on hilarious
2:03.8	existential anecdotes after recently embracing his 50s, which include a lot of hiking and eating
2:09.8	ancient grains, passing up the chance to board a full-scale millennium falcon so he could attend
2:15.2	his daughter's second grade art show and how buying a house is like hiring a suicide squad of
2:21.0	superhuman subcontractors. And today I'm thrilled to finally welcome Pat and Oswald to the show
2:27.2	as he recalls coming up as a comedian at the dawn of the alt comedy scene. His first gig in Hollywood
2:33.2	as a writer for Mad TV and his prolific side gig as a script doctor on some of the biggest box
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