Patton Oswalt
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1,066 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Jun
Patton Oswalt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They don't have more freedom than Joel, and it's driving them insane.
I mean, I just always wanted to do stuff that I thought was interesting. A lot of my metrics are, well, if I'm going to be really honest, my two metrics are I'm in this for the money and the anecdotes. I want really cool stories and I'd like to make some money. But I also love the I love getting a project where you're like, how are they going to pull this off? I have to say yes to this.
This, you know, so when like Boots Riley sends me, you know, sorry to bother you, I'm like, there's horse mutants and there's, I'm someone's white, how the, I have to do it. You know, you have to do that. Or when there was a group called Five Second Films and they did this amazing movie. It's called Dude Bro Party Massacre, the part three. And it's been one of those, it's like this love story
and hate letter to all these 80s slasher movies. I can't even describe how brilliant this thing is. And it had this tiny release and it's slowly one of those things that everyone that sees it is like, oh my God, this thing is brilliant. And I had to like, yeah. Always say yes to the weird, interesting thing Because, again, it just gives you better memories, too. You know?
Also, say yes to the thing that's going to be a really cool adventure. Like, obviously, I would love to work with a Scorsese or a Tarantino or a Catherine Bigelow. But I'd also kind of like to work with...
um ue bowl just because you know that's going to be an insane you know or harmony corrine just for the for the uh the stories like something truly brilliant is going to happen but you also embrace weird in a way that most people don't well because i weird isn't weird to me that the weird people The weird people to me are the people that are trying to act so normal.
Those are the ones that always make me put my spidey senses up, like you're being a little too normal. It's the people that, and the quote-unquote weird, they never think that they're weird. Someone like Maria Bamford or John Waters said, They think they're the normal one. I'm actually reacting to this world in a, based on what the world is, this is a sane reaction to it. This is not weird at all.
So that kind of, I'm so much more attracted to that kind of living, that kind of living design.
I am all – This is gonna sound weird. I am all for restrictions. I don't understand everyone that's like, you should be able to say anything. It's like, guys, no. The restrictions are there for you to find clever, diabolical ways around it and then get to say it. If everything is allowed, then there's no danger or fun to it. You've gotta have, I want that outlaw element
You know, and all this about cancel culture, who the fuck has been canceled? Now, everyone that they talk about has been canceled is filling arenas. The only people that have been canceled, the ones who've actually committed like sex crimes. They're not, but they haven't been shut down because of what they said. Those are fucking rapists. So, you know, Lenny Bruce wasn't raping people.
He found a way around getting shit, you know, saying what he wanted to say until he was unfortunately crushed. But there's ways... I'm not making a good point here, but like have some of the, it drives me crazy when people say like, you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. Okay, that is such an insult to Mel Brooks.
He couldn't make Blazing Saddles then and he found a way to make it and he'd find a way to make it now because he's fucking Mel Brooks.
Even with that, those restrictions, those frustrations, a lot of people turn away from acting because they're like, I've got to sit there for eight fucking hours? Well, you can find a way to make that creative for yourself and find a way to bring something interesting to every single scene that you do. Despite the sitting and, okay, now I've got to do it this way, now I've got to do it this way.
You've got to, you know... I mean, I can't – I've really enjoyed everything that I've ever done, even when it wasn't – even when the thing itself wasn't great. I've enjoyed being there and watching people. I'm with creative people that are doing their goddamn best. Even bad movies I've been in, people broke their ass to try to make it work. I just love being around people who care about something.
So – but, I mean, if you're talking about the ones that gave me the most satisfaction doing them, I mean, the run that I did on –
uh uh justified was fantastic that was just getting to work with timothy oliphant and all those cast members was was incredible um there was a show that i did two shows that i did that both got canceled prematurely one for sci-fi called happy with chris maloney um one of the best um shows I've ever done. So amazing.
Brian Taylor, director, just an absolute visual genius and one of the most free and unrestricted imaginations I've ever encountered as far as writing is concerned. And then another show for Showtime called United States with Tara. Not only because I liked my role, but like getting to work with people like Rosemary DeWitt and especially Toni Collette.
And watching them like at table reads, Toni Collette like cold reading the script and going into eight alternate personalities at the drop of a hat. And the whole table just like, the fuck are we seeing right now? those experiences to me really, really meant a lot.
It makes you feel like you don't belong, but it also makes you make the decision, all right, I got to step up or I got to fade away. You know, when I did Young Adult, I was working with Charlize Theron, who's one of the best actors alive. And it's like, you had better show the fuck up or just accept the fact that you're going to be a blur on the edge of the screen with this actress, you know.
And not just with her, with Colette Wolfe, plays my sister. She has one of the best scenes in the movie, I think, is between Colette Wolfe and Charlize.
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