Patton Oswalt | Who's Ready To Laugh?

I’ve done enough eulogizing about the comedians we lost this year. It’s depressing. So this is a eulogy for a podcast. Except its passing has a happy ending. You’ll see.
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One of my favorite comedy albums of all time is Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s Derek and Clive (Live). They were both comedic geniuses, known for their precision and playfulness. Read their printed scripts sometime, especially Cook’s errata. Nasty, literate...

From the second update to Salon.com’s “Patton Oswalt Makes Asian Name Joke, In Response To Racist KTVU News Report”:
“This seems to be a night where it’s clear why race remains central, and why crude and unsophisticated elementary school jokes about it need to be called out, no matter how bullying the joke’s teller may be.”...

1. Thievery
“Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little spread over all your scruples is an absolute necessity!”
— Glen Bateman, in Stephen King’s The Stand

“This was supposed to be the introduction to a new edition of Cynthia True’s American Scream, a terrific biography of Bill Hicks. But the new edition didn’t happen. It’s twenty years, today, since he left us, so I figured this was as good a time as any...