As a fan of comedy and sometimes interviewer of comedians, I’ve never thought that comedians should have a spokesperson. Sure, there are plenty of common threads and experiences generally understood by most comics, but there is also a lot of diversity in opinion, which is a good thing. Two thi... [Read More]

Patton Oswalt wrote "a closed letter" to himself yesterday on the Internet, which means we all can read it, hopefully identify with at least part of it and take away lessons ourselves from it. Oswalt's letter is an essay in three parts, covering, as the title suggests, joke thieves, heckling and rap... [Read More]

Patton Oswalt hasn't historically been shy when it comes to expressing his thoughts on comedy—he's an expert, after all. And he tends not to keep quiet when bullshit infects his world, like when a college valedictorian stole his bit, or when he got into a skirmish with a lady recording his sho... [Read More]

If television as a whole seemed a little obsessed with casting comedian Patton Oswalt last season — he appeared in no fewer than seven shows! — it’s because no one plays obsessives better. [Read More]

The phrase "comedy nerd" gets thrown around online so much this decade that you wonder what meaning it still has, and yet, here are two assembled bodies of TV critics to remind us that the nerds have risen up and claimed the party for themselves. Wha... [Read More]

Salon.com posted an article about a South Carolina minister named Sammy Rhodes aka @prodigalsam who has been accused of stealing jokes by many high-profile comedians like Patton Oswalt, Rob Delaney, Louis C.K., and John Mulaney. In fact, Rhodes has built quite the following on Twitter, gaining nearl... [Read More]

Kyle Kinane knows how to toe the line between ‘cute’ and ‘crass’. His stand up bits often begin with a nice, warmhearted story that quickly devolves into something crude and totally hilarious. With his gruff and bearded demeanor, he is the sort of person you would expect to g... [Read More]

Patton Oswalt appears in the The Coup’s video for “Magic Clap” which has him mouthing and acting out the video word for word as he hangs out on, behind, and in front of a leopard print couch. It’s a pretty simple video made fun by Oswalt’s presence. The comedian even Tw... [Read More]

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good old-fashioned comedian Twitter spar– although I feel this one between Marc Maron and Michael Ian Black has far less goodwill than Maron’s back-and-forth with Patton Oswalt last June. If you follow Maron... [Read More]

In advance of the upcoming television upfronts and the ending of the 2012-2013 television season, many networks are in the middle of confirming pilots, cancelling shows, and renewing others. Rather than you sifting through all the noise, we’re going to come up with some cheat sheets to what’s happen... [Read More]