Patton Oswalt

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Patton Oswalt has a certain fearlessness, whether he’s doing standup for a sellout crowd or speaking his mind about what he sees in the world. He talks with Ted Danson about the role of comedy in dark times, why he loved Ted in “Body Heat” and “Damages,” his worries for the next generation, and what’s been giving him hope lately. Like watching your podcasts? Visit http://youtube.com/teamcoco to see full episodes.

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0:00.0	We're taking away the innocent years that you kind of need to remember as you get older and realize how cynical and dark things are. What kind of adult does that produce? And what kind of kids do they raise?
0:20.5	Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.
0:23.6	I am very excited for you all to hear the conversation I just had with Patton Oswald.
0:30.4	I'm not going to talk about it a lot.
0:32.8	I'm going to let you just listen.
0:34.8	He is an amazing actor.
0:37.0	I've had the pleasure of working with him several times,
0:40.1	and his stand-up is brilliant, and he has a podcast, and he writes books, and he's about to hit
0:46.4	the road soon with his new stand-up. The stand-up is called effervescent, and visit patentoswold.com to see if he's coming to a city near you so let's get
0:57.5	into it buckle up here's patten oswald before we came on the air we were talking about this comedian
1:08.2	friend of mine lisa careo who dated an astronaut and said astronauts, and I think rock climbers, and I'm sure skydivers and deep sea divers and cave explorers, they do have an adrenaline junkie aspect to them.
1:21.8	How about the people who dive off clips and they have the rebel, what do they call it, squirrel or whatever.
1:28.5	Who was the first guy? Because all I remember is, you know, those old films of the 1800s
1:33.9	people were trying to create the first flying machines. And there were guys like 18th century
1:39.5	top hat version of the squirrel suit and they just plummet and die right right and again an adrenaline
1:46.0	junkie and i'm sure a physicist or a engineer was like okay i'm going to jump off and this will
1:52.0	actually like how do you lead up to that and make sure that it glad because or the first one the first one
1:59.0	and then it worked and then of course once the first one does it then everyone, and then it worked. And then, of course, once the first one does it, then everyone goes, oh, now we, it's like breaking the four-minute mile.
2:05.8	Oh, we can do it.
2:07.4	But that is a thing where just the one random breeze hits you and you're just smacked against a rock and you die.
2:17.6	This seems random what we're talking about, but it's not because to me, what you do as a stand-up
2:24.3	is right next door for me.
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