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    "Bring forth my doom-spawn from your stink crevice and prove the Gypsy wrong!"
    Patton Oswalt's way of telling an audience that his wife is pregnant.

    Hobbit-like stand-up comic, born January 27, 1969, known for his "nerd-philosopher" comedic style, and working with fellow alternative comedians such as Brian Posehn, David Cross, Zach Galifiniakis, Maria Bamford, and Blaine Capatch.

    Significant Roles
    • The King of Queens: Spence Olchin, Doug's nerdy friend.
    • Big Fan: Paul Aufiero, a lonely Giants fan who is beat up by one of his favorite players in a nightclub. A good example of Tom Hanks Syndrome.
    • Caprica: Baxter Sarno, an Expy of both Jay Leno and Jon Stewart (It Makes Sense in Context)
    • The Heart She Holler: Hurlan Heartshe, a feral man made mayor of an isolated Southern hamlet
    • Ratatouille: Rémy, the protagonist; a rat who isn't content with eating garbage, and yearns to become a professional French chef.
    • Reno 911 Miami: Jeff Spode, the acting mayor of Miami, who has to oversee the Reno sheriffs, and has a dark secret.
    • Young Adult: Matt Freehauf, the nerdy former classmate of Mavis (Charlize Theron) whom he forms an unusual bond with.
    • Word Girl: Theodore "Tobey" McCallister III, a ten-year-old supervillain.
    • Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Koenig brothers? clones? Anyway, them.
    • The Alcoholic: Tends to be drunk on his comedy albums, and often does bits about drinking and being drunk.
    • Berserk Button: Plagiarism. In 2010 he had bits of his stolen by both an upstart comedian and a Columbia University valedictorian. Internet based smackdowns ensued.
    • Black Comedy: Quite often.
      • A particular example is his "Uncle Touchy's Naked Puzzle Basement" song: "You won't wear a shirt and you'll cry."
      • And who can forget this line from his Stella D'oro Breakfast treat's joke:
    • He Also Did: Naturally, as a geeky comic, he would be writing geeky comic books.
    • Heavy Meta: Has a few bits about stand-up comedy, including one famous bit where he reenacts a heroin addict's open mic act.
    • Heterosexual Life Partners: With Brian Posehn.
    • Moral Guardians: Not that he is one; he just hates them. He even has a sequence about how replacing 'adult' words with euphemisms results in a sentence even creepier than the original [1] (see it under Narrative Profanity Filer, below).
    • Narrative Profanity Filter: "I'm gonna fill your hoo-ha with goof juice!"
    • One of Us:
      • A LOT of his material revolves around his geeky interests. "Speaking of comic books, which I'll be doing 800 times tonight..."
      • In a Stealth Pun in his bit about weight loss, he mentions he's gonna "Exert some Willpower! Hal Jordan!"
      • He fulfilled one of his personal all-time dreams by writing "Welcome to the Working Week", one of the greatest one-shot stories in the history of the Justice League of America.
      • He also wrote the Firefly/Serenity one-shot Float Out.
    • Overly Long Gag: Tends to combine this with Genius Bonus for some truly hilarious bits; ie. his bit about the Apocalypse, and the above mentioned Open Mic bit.
    • Pet Homosexual: Mocked in Finest Hour.
    • Refuge in Audacity: The track "Wackity Schmackity Doo!" on Werewolves And Lollipops, where he talks about adding jokes to footage of the Holocaust and 9/11.
    • So My Kids Can Watch: His role in Ratatouille. He actually has a routine about how much the movie has affected his day-to-day life, and how jarring it is to realize that he now has child fans.
    • Take That:
      • Patton is NOT a fan of Yoshinoya Beef Bowl, ending his 2008 BlizzCon performance with a hilarious diatribe asserting that the chain must be a front for heroin distribution.
      • And if he had a Time Machine, he would travel back to the mid-nineties and kill George Lucas with a shovel.
    • Too Soon: He did a show at the House Of Blues in Cleveland literally the day that LeBron James announced he was moving.[2] This is how he greeted his audience:

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    1. possibly because using language suitable for children implies that you're speaking to a child.
    2. LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat in 2010 in a press spectacle known as "The Decision." The Cavs fans were... not happy.
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