Patton Oswalt

I was I wasn't the class clown, but I was in the class clown click.

In other words, we were the comedy nerds, but we weren't the hey, it was the we knew all the routines.

We knew all that.

I mean, we like went deep when when other kids.

When other kids were like quoting Monty Python, my group could quote Derek and Clive at like, we would always go for the even deeper stuff.

Yeah.

It was that, that's the kind of comedy we liked.

I'd feel a little, no.

Yeah, I had to.

Well, it's weird for the first thing that I did was because I was so reluctant to go up.

I did this bigger version of myself to hide the fact that I'm not comfortable with myself being up here.

So it was a very much a stage persona and a stage presence.

And it took

me like six years to work through that.

It wasn't until I moved to San Francisco four years into it.

I started seeing comedians like Brian Posehn and Margaret Cho and Greg Barron and Greg Proops that were actually themselves on stage rather than, hey, I'm talking to you now.

You're going on.

I got to get into my state.

They could literally be mid-sentence ago.

I'll be right back.