Patton Oswalt Sounds Off

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Comedian Patton Oswalt is here to talk about his new Netflix special ‘I Love Everything.’ The title is a huge turnaround from his 2017 special ‘Annihilation’ and on today’s episode Patton opens up about how far he’s come emotionally since the sudden death of his former wife, ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’ author Michelle McNamara. The comedian, who turned 50 last year, also shares his unvarnished thoughts on the futility of making Trump jokes, why he thinks Fox News is the “height of evil” for pushing the country to reopen during a pandemic, and the fate he believes the Golden State Killer deserves. Then he looks back on highlights from his career, including his acting debut as a video store clerk on ‘Seinfeld,’ his late-night stand-up debut on ‘Conan,’ his epic ‘Star Wars’ filibuster on ‘Parks and Rec’ and a lot more.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this is a big one.
0:14.3	Today, I am joined by one of my all-time favorite comedians and someone I've been wanting to get on this show for a long time,
0:21.8	Patton Oswald.
0:23.9	Patton's new stand-up special premieres today on Netflix.
0:27.6	It's called I Love Everything, which is about as far removed as possible from the title
0:32.4	of his previous special 2017's Annihilation.
0:36.2	That major shift in tone reflects how far the comedian has come emotionally since losing his
0:41.0	wife, the crime writer Michelle McNamara, just over four years ago.
0:45.8	Last year, Patton turned 50.
0:49.1	And in this clip from the new special, he breaks down where that puts him in the grand
0:53.3	scheme of things.
0:55.0	And if you were to fly a helicopter low over the earth, you know what you would see?
1:00.0	You'd see people in their 20s gobbling drugs, eating delicious food, having sex.
1:07.0	People in their 30s with actual jobs making the world run.
1:13.0	People in their 40s.
1:15.7	Trying to fuck the 20-year-olds.
1:22.6	And then us, the gentle, surrendered 50-year-olds on our little futility ovals.
1:29.4	We've got our earbuds in, listening to podcasts.
1:35.8	Which are done by 20-year-olds that nobody wants to fuck.
1:42.9	And then on the podcasts, 30-year-olds are selling boner pills of the 40-year-olds.
1:52.2	And then way off in the distance are 60-year-olds vaguely afraid of Muslims.
1:58.9	And that's the world we live in. So don't fight that cycle, folks.
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