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As this reporter PROVES with his interview, Patton Oswalt will answer an endless string of impossibly dull-minded questions sincerely, but without any jokes. He ruined the interview, basically. Way to go, jerk.
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I think he actually interviewed Nick Madson, claiming to be Patton Oswalt.
I sympathize completely with how the interviewer feels. In 1974 I interviewed Sir Alec Guinness for Horse & Hound magazine and frustrated at his candor and sincerity I eventually held him at gunpoint until he recited the entire opening monologue from George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ wrapped in the Savoy hotel restaurant’s tablecloth for a toga and tomato stems tied together with dental floss on his head for Caesar’s trademark headpiece.
The entire restaurant gave him a standing ovation and I got promoted to features editor .
Yeah, this is a comment on Videogum.com
You mean he’s not constantly and feverishly making jokes??? What a hack. This guy knows what I’m talking about.
You nailed it.
Maybe if the questions were funnier the outcome would have been different.
You’re originally from Northern Virginia. Why did the chicken cross the road?
That would have worked with hilarious perfection.
I knew it! I’ve been saying he’s unfunny for years. That’s why I bought both of those albums, the “222″ double album, the No Reason To Complain DVD, and every season of King Of Queens. Just to show people how unfunny he is.
(FYI I didn’t really buy every season of King of Queens. I’m not crazy.)
If Chris Trash and I ever defied biology and had a baby, it would be you.
I never thought of it this way. I might have to legally change my name from Trash to Garbage for this to work, though.
Yeah, you don’t need own every season of King of Queens. I stopped watching that show after Season 4, thing went downhill after Jim proposed to Pam.
I am so glad you didn’t buy every season of King of Queens on DVD! I just think you deserve better!
“Reporter”: So, how long have you been doing comedy for?
Patton Oswalt: (squirts reporter with lapel flower, throws pie in his face)
/fixed
Cool interview Ryan Little. I feel like I really got in Pattons head there. I now know him in a deeper more intimate level.
patton dropping the the ball such a hard-hitting question like “early on you wrote for madtv—when did that happen?” is really inexcusable.
A lot of times this is the blame of the interviewer. What did the interviewer do to bring out the funny? He is in control of the situation. Patton is not going to just riff on his own and take over the interview, that would be rude. But really, who cares. It is an interview, meant to convey information. When Patton wants to be funny he IS funny. Listen to any of his appearances on The Best Show on WFMU, for example.
In other words, some people are actually interested in who he is as a human being? And an interview is a good place to learn about that?
I don’t understand why the monkey doesn’t just dance every time you shoot at it’s feet.
Am I the only one who legitimately thinks this guy isn’t funny? I never watched a lot of King of Queens, but I always found his character to be the most insufferable (with Jerry Stiller singlehandedly making that show hilarious a lot of the time), and I always found his stand up to be somewhat boring. Anyone else? No? Whatever, downvote away.
Boooooooooooooo differing opinions reasonably presented, boooooooooooooooooo.
Says the guy who attacked me for my views on Rihanna.
Wow. Those are the same things for sure.
disregarding and donwvoting a comment on taste and inquiry as to if anyone who shares taste disregared =responding to an attempt to deny victimhood to someone who was assaulted.
Yep, same thing for sure.
Seriously, we’re all sensitive gum today. Too much red ink, its Fucking Friday people
WOOO Friday!!!
HOLLA!
To be fair, you’re views on Rihanna were absurd. Which was made even weirder by the fact that the weren’t following an avatar of the Showbiz Pizza Band’s drummer.
Absurd, perhaps, but thought provoking and interesting? No
That Said I enjoyed the shit out of that conversation
Look at this fuckin’ peacemaker.
But seriously, between your reminding us all to chill-out-it’s-fucking-Friday and your helping Saturnian, you sir (ma’am?) embody what is truly means to be a good monster. You are the real hero.
sorry, I just vote how I’m told to. I’m American
watching Patton Oswalt’s stand up is kind of like biting into a jalapeno. At first you’re like “this is alright, I don’t know what all of the fuss is about” and then it starts to build and build and by the end your eyes are watering and you’re howling and rolling on the floor
This reads like Ryan lost the tape of the interview and filled in as basic as possible.
http://www.michigandaily.com/content/gabriel-delahaye-interview
this is how its done
I had no clue Gabe went to U of M. My grandfather went to Michiga–OH MY GOD GABE’S MY GRANDPA.
always nice to see my old editorial stomping grounds show up ’round the internets.
go blue, is what i’m saying.
Honestly, this is one of the worst interviews and one of the least self-aware interviewers of all time. It was just honestly pretty shitty of him to introduce that terrible interview by basically bashing Patton for not being funny. I can’t even imagine how you would be able to answer those questions in a funny way without coming off like a jerk. And if he did respond to them in a funny way, the introduction would’ve probably been about how Patton has an insatiable need to be “on” all the time. Fuck that guy, man, this really upsets me for some reason.
Also, I feel a very deep and personal relationship to Patton Oswalt because he went to my alma mater and we shared the experience of having to live in the hellscape of Colonial Williamsburg for 4 years.
I think he wrote the lead in for the article/interview AFTER he conducted a very shitty interview. But yeah, definitely bush league to expect him to just be Mr. Fucking Jokes!® with every answer to a string of mundane, Wikipedia Level questions.
Oh I know he wrote it after the interview. I’m just saying that if the interview had gone the other direction, the lead would still somehow manage to be negative, because based on this one interview, that’s just the kind of guy I think Ryan Little is (as a writer – I won’t claim to know him as a person).
Just an Aside –
This Set of Exchanges had me Dying
How did television compare to stand-up or even your film work?
Well, each is its own thing. They’re different disciplines, but they’re all fun. You can’t really compare them—they’re not the same thing. There’s way more autonomy in stand-up.
Do you prefer one over the other?
No, I like all of them.
You voiced a rat in Ratatouille—did you have to do anything to really get in character for that?
No, they just wanted me to act like I act. There wasn’t anything really ratlike about the role, so it was pretty cool.
Do you have any especially fond memories of working on the film?
Way too many to name. Just getting to visit the Pixar campus up in [Emeryville, Calif.] was amazing.
Did they approach you with the role?
Yeah, they approached me.
What drew you to it?
Them offering it to me.
Was there anything particular about the role you found attractive?
Getting to work at Pixar.
I honestly think that is the funniest acceptable way to answer those questions! Maybe I don’t like Ryan Little because he failed to see how the interview wound up being hilarious.
And Ryan Little is a Dick*
*I don’t actually know either.
I really wish there was audio of this interview, because reading the strained, awkward conversation between these two just isn’t enough. I want to hear the growing contempt in Patton’s voice as he utters, “Them offering it to me.” And, “Getting to work at Pixar.”
I was lucky enough to interview Dave Matthews for the school newspaper when he came and played at my school, but strangely he didn’t sing. I didn’t even print the interview, I just ran a negative review of his concert and said he should sing more.
This is unrelated, but are you able to make any comments after 12PM, or does regular Nickelodeon take over?
That’s funny because I actually don’t get to post in the afternoon usually, I’m babysitting my younger siblings for three weeks before I go back to college and that’s when my baby brother gets really active.
I never really thought it looked like I was trying to really get into my avatar’s character, but it’s definitely not that (I’m not yourhighschoolcoach over here).
REAL TALK though, I do have to post from a packard-bell with windows 95, so it takes about 2 hours. Plan things out with Gabe in advance.
Wow. Though I haven’t really followed the Arts Desk I’m a big fan of the CityPaper in general, and they’ve put out some really excellent in-depth pieces in the past. What a lazy interview. Really embarrassing, and to make it worse Patton is from Northern Virginia so the CityPaper is something of a hometown rag (ew, sorry).
They forgot to ask: Where do you get your ideas?
PRO TIP: Do not ask a question that Wikipedia can answer.
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My favorite part is about how Patton won the Grammy. #nohedidn’t http://www.grammy.com/nominees?category=163
This interview needs more “Between Two Ferns.”
It doesn’t help that the interviewer asked questions like he was a twelve year old required to do an interview for school.
So, you’re a comedian?
Yep.
So, you, like, tell jokes and stuff?
Yeah.
Tell Me a joke!
It doesn’t really work like that.
Tell me a joke, funny man!