From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

My guest is comedian, author, actor, and enthusiast, Pat and Oswald.

Currently, he's co-starring in Jason Reitman's film Young Adult, and his book, was it on this ninth printing now, is Zombie Spaceship Wasteland?

Thank you.

Before we get into this, I couldn't help but think about your sort of, how best to put this,

conversation with David Cross when he recently talked about his feelings about chip-wrecked.

I saw him the other night actually and he was still making fun of it.

By the way, that was a very instructive thing.

I wrote something back when I had a blog on MySpace that I thought was basically something I was just writing for my friends and also a jokey thing for Cross to read, which is that when I said, you know, I was me and another different actor were both offered parts, the part in Inolving the chipmunks that David Cross played.

And I said, I looked at that script and threw it across the room and I guess David Cross caught it.

That was my joke.

Now, I was making, what I was doing was, I was referencing.

What was they call a callback in Europe.

Well, yeah, it was a joke he had made to me and about me.

When I was in New York a couple years earlier, I had like a line in a movie called Failure to Launch.

So I was at the show afterwards.

I went to the premiere and then I skipped the after party and went to a show to go do a set.

And Cross was there.

And I'm so much more socially self-conscious than

Crosses. Cross doesn't care about anything and I'm like yeah so I'm I know I'm wearing this suit right now

and I because I was at the I went to a screening of this movie that I'm in and Dave was like what movie

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