Patton Oswalt

And like watching them sit around and kind of volley back and forth, a vague idea that would then keep getting refined and bounce around until it turned into a bit. It was like, oh, people create stuff out of thin air. There's no they. There's no them that's separate from us because these guys would come in and,

They'd bitch about a parking ticket they'd gotten or, oh, my fridge broke and half my food is spoiled. And then they would sit and write jokes. Like it was – that wasn't their whole – some people that I knew, it was like their life and the hassles of it was their life. And these were like, I still have those same hassles and then I create stuff on top of it. And there was something really –

They'd bitch about a parking ticket they'd gotten or, oh, my fridge broke and half my food is spoiled. And then they would sit and write jokes. Like it was – that wasn't their whole – some people that I knew, it was like their life and the hassles of it was their life. And these were like, I still have those same hassles and then I create stuff on top of it. And there was something really –

There's like something even more human about that, that in the face of every other hassle that every other person is facing, I'm going to also think of something funny and try to make money off of it.

There's like something even more human about that, that in the face of every other hassle that every other person is facing, I'm going to also think of something funny and try to make money off of it.

Yeah, I don't.

Yeah, I don't.

Hell yeah. All right. By the way, I'm swinging kettlebells while we do this. If you're just listening, there are kettlebells being swung and I'm eating a giant stack of pancakes because I got to go top trees up in Coos Bay. Yeah, I'm always, but I'm not, I wish I could, I don't have that ability to sit down with a notebook and just write jokes.

Hell yeah. All right. By the way, I'm swinging kettlebells while we do this. If you're just listening, there are kettlebells being swung and I'm eating a giant stack of pancakes because I got to go top trees up in Coos Bay. Yeah, I'm always, but I'm not, I wish I could, I don't have that ability to sit down with a notebook and just write jokes.

I, as you said, I drive around and deal with my day and while I'm walking around and dealing with my morning or my afternoon, I'm thinking of things. And so it's very, very conversational. However I'm talking to you offstage, I kind of go onstage and I'm still talking that same way. I just try to make it funny. So, I mean, it's just the way I think about the world.

I, as you said, I drive around and deal with my day and while I'm walking around and dealing with my morning or my afternoon, I'm thinking of things. And so it's very, very conversational. However I'm talking to you offstage, I kind of go onstage and I'm still talking that same way. I just try to make it funny. So, I mean, it's just the way I think about the world.

I don't even, you know, it isn't even a defense mechanism at this point. It's a comfort zone that I have to be in. Because if I get to, I was thinking this this morning, by the way. The fact that I really have realized I hate the phrase that comedians are the truth tellers and the philosophers.

I don't even, you know, it isn't even a defense mechanism at this point. It's a comfort zone that I have to be in. Because if I get to, I was thinking this this morning, by the way. The fact that I really have realized I hate the phrase that comedians are the truth tellers and the philosophers.

It's like, shouldn't we be comedians and our politicians and philosophers and journalists should be the truth tellers standing up for people so that the audiences I perform for, I can say silly shit that I made up that amuses them in this better world they're living in. We shouldn't be in a world where, well, hopefully, because that means we're living in medieval times.

It's like, shouldn't we be comedians and our politicians and philosophers and journalists should be the truth tellers standing up for people so that the audiences I perform for, I can say silly shit that I made up that amuses them in this better world they're living in. We shouldn't be in a world where, well, hopefully, because that means we're living in medieval times.

That means the king is just sitting there going, well, I just passed a law where I get to sleep with all your daughters, and I know that feels terrible, but here comes a corncob, the farting dwarf, and he's gonna say that I'm fat, and that'll balance it all out. That's not how, no, there should be people setting that stuff right so that I can do jokes

That means the king is just sitting there going, well, I just passed a law where I get to sleep with all your daughters, and I know that feels terrible, but here comes a corncob, the farting dwarf, and he's gonna say that I'm fat, and that'll balance it all out. That's not how, no, there should be people setting that stuff right so that I can do jokes

You don't want the responsibility because I understand wanting to be- It's not that I don't want the responsibility, but why is it all on, how is it switched so badly that it's the comedians that are pointing out the truth more than, yeah, I mean, by the way, there were people, you know, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin were also pointing out

You don't want the responsibility because I understand wanting to be- It's not that I don't want the responsibility, but why is it all on, how is it switched so badly that it's the comedians that are pointing out the truth more than, yeah, I mean, by the way, there were people, you know, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin were also pointing out

the truth, but they were doing it in a world where then you know that that was the setup for, and then the press and government will also step in and hopefully try to right these wrongs. And that's completely reversed now.