On this week's GoodOnePodcast, pattonoswalt discusses the future of stand-up comedy: 'I want to see it get even better because as much as I like doing comedy, I like watching it.'
Patton Oswalt Photo: Invision/AP/Shutterstock Patton Oswalt’s last special, 2017’s Annihilation, dealt with the grief and despair of losing his wife, Michelle McNamara, to an untimely death in 2016. His latest special, I Love Everything, is something Oswalt calls “kind of a resurging of the life force,” reflecting how he is now approaching comedy at a time in his life when he is, generally, very happy.
I remember there was an interview with Alan Moore that was like, “Whenever I start seeing a repeated motif in my writing, I go out of my way to carve it away.” And it’s hard to do that because you work hard to get to those motifs, but you’ve got to carve them away or you’ll stagnate. It’s the famous story of Benny Goodman having all his calluses surgically removed and his hands wrapped. They would heal fresh and he had to learn to play his clarinet a different way.
On the Power of Doing the Dishes If I ever start making movies enough to really prepare for the next day, I’m going to go to some restaurant and go, “Let me just do the dishes for two hours.” I actually was a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant. It was one of those things with the big classic rack: You’d load them all up and shove them in. And I had some of the most creative thoughts. But I still have that in the house. At the end of the day, I’m like, “Everyone stack the dishes by the sink.
On His Joke About “Serious” Cereal Because I’m embracing the fact that as I’m getting older and my food is quote, unquote, “more serious” and “less silly,” there are still silly elements to it. I’m sure that when I have to start drinking Ensure and using a walker, I’ll find something both lovable and silly about that.
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