Patton down the hatches: Patton Oswalt returns to the stage in the Netflix specialAnnihilation.
and he also speaks in the special about the challenge of lambasting someone who outrages at an accelerated pace.
Hes very easy to make fun of in the moment if youre on stage, Oswalt tells EW.
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In fact, just holding a mic at all seemed entirely fraught.
But I realized it would be way more tasteless if I did an hour and never mentioned it.
That would even more insane and disturbing….
So to approach that and then execute it was very, very difficult.
It just came from numbing repetition and just going onstage a lot of nights, working out that special.
But I just kept at it until it became funny.
you could watch him expertly navigate the waters of tragedy and comedy inAnnihilation,which is now streaming.
THE COMEDY OF MY LIFE
The album that inspired me to become a comedianSteve MartinsA Wild and Crazy Guy.
That album starts off in a very intimate club and then explodes into the Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
People say, Have you seen this?
Its like, Im not the KFC watchdog!'
The joke I wish I never toldEven the ones that failed made me become a better comedian.
If anything, they guided me toward what I needed to be doing.
Im happy for the jokes that worked and the jokes that bombed.
The stand-up special I have watched the mostRichard Pryor: Live in Concert.
Ive seen that about 20 times.
He personifies all these different things, and its just incredible.
The best advice another comedian ever gave meMake any crowd your crowd.
AndDave Attellshould be way more famous.
Together they totally negate the argument about clean versus dirty comedy.
Brians clean and Daves dirty, and no one cares because theyre equally brilliant.
Every time I would go up to the stage, theyd hand me a Guinness.
The joke I want told at my funeralThe Aristocrats.
The funniest word to say on stagePants.
