History Creator / PattonOswalt

-->'''Patton Oswalt''': All this guy needed to say was, "Who the fuck is Patton Oswalt? I'm a BILLIONAIRE!"

-->-- '''Patton Oswalt''''s way of declaring to his wife his delight at her pregnancy.

* HeavyMeta: Has a few bits about stand-up comedy, including one famous bit where he reenacts a heroin addict's open mic act. "Doctor Pepper" was so high, he would pass out mid-sentence...only to wake up and pick up in the middle of the routine. The irony being, it ''killed'', and if he had did so intentionally, he would have been a genius on the level of Creator/AndyKaufman.

* HeavyMeta: Has a few bits about stand-up comedy, including one famous bit where he reenacts a heroin addict's open mic act.

Patton Peter Oswalt (born January 27, 1969 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American stand-up comic and actor, known for his "nerd-philosopher" comedic style, and working with fellow alternative comedians such as Creator/BrianPosehn, Creator/DavidCross, Creator/ZachGalifianakis, Maria Bamford, and Blaine Capatch. He has a daughter named Alice, and was married to crime writer Michelle [=McNamara=], until she suddenly passed away in April, 2016. In 2017 he married actress Creator/MeredithSalenger.

* AdultFear: Discussed in ''Annihilation''. Patton describes the day that his wife died as the second-worst day of his life. The worst day of his life was the day after that one, when Patton had to tell his daughter what had happened.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:

Patton Peter Oswalt (born January 27, 1969 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American stand-up comic and actor, known for his "nerd-philosopher" comedic style, and working with fellow alternative comedians such as Brian Posehn, Creator/DavidCross, Creator/ZachGalifianakis, Maria Bamford, and Blaine Capatch. He has a daughter named Alice, and was married to crime writer Michelle [=McNamara=], until she suddenly passed away in April, 2016. In 2017 he married actress Creator/MeredithSalenger.

* AdultFear: He describes the worst day of his life -- it was not the day his wife passed, it was the day after when he had to tell his daughter.

* TheAntiNihilist: Patton talks about his first wife developing this mentality in ''Annihilation''. As a true crime writer, one of the things [[BerserkButton that absolutely annoyed her]] was the phrase "everything happens for a reason." According to Patton, she insisted that the world was pure chaos, and that good or bad things were mostly just luck; the only way to stave off some of the darkness was to be kind to everyone. She later condensed it into a SurvivalMantra: "it's chaos, be kind."
-->She won [the argument] in the ''SHITTIEST WAY POSSIBLE''!

* TheAtoner: After a lifetime of making fun of and sneering at people who wear sweatpants in public, he had a kid. Suddenly he totally understood, and dedicated a bit to how wonderful they are.

* BerserkButton: Plagiarism. In 2010 he had bits of his stolen by both an upstart comedian and a Columbia University valedictorian. Internet based smackdowns ensued. Also, do not call him a "SadClown."

** On a less funny note, insulting or dismissing his late wife, Michelle [=McNamara=].
* BigFatFuture: A side joke in his bit about time-traveling to visit himself 10 years ago and what his past reaction would be.

-->'''Neill:''' ''(in a review of ''Film/ThreeHundred'')'' I can't spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN'T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that's hitting someone's balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

-->And the black guy-- and he didn't put his cigar down to do this, which ''haunts'' me to this day.

* DramaticIrony: Deconstructed; when discussing what'll be the [[CallForward "little ironic moment"]] in a biopic of his life (such as Music/PaulMcCartney looking at a guitar in a pawn shop window), Patton hopes it'll be someone sarcastically saying he's a comedian, rather than him drawing a rhino with a huge boner as a kid, and then, as an adult, [[BlackComedyRape falling into the rhino enclosure at the zoo and getting humped to death]].

* GeniusDitz: His view of subcontractors in ''I Love Everything'', who seem to have focused on getting incredibly skilled at one specific thing to compensate for serious mental problems. One guy Patton hired spent the whole day yelling at a nonexistent person named Kirby, but the wallpaper the guy put up was immaculate.

* ''Film/{{Eternals}}: As Pip the Troll, Eros' assistant and hype man.

** His mocking of Black Angus Steakhouse's ads for its [[{{Understatement}} hearty]] meals actually won him the lead for ''Ratatouille''; Brad Bird loved the way Oswalt talked in hilarious detail about the smorgasbord of food in that routine.
-->"I'll suck a cock on the Golden Gate Bridge before I serve you any mixed greens, buddy!"

* ''Series/HomeMovieThePrincessBride'': Vizzini

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovieFourDANewAdventure'': Risky Business, President Business's brother and owner of Brick World.

* ShellShockedVeteran: In his analysis of "The Christmas Shoes," Patton theorizes that the little boy is being put up to getting strangers to buy women's shoes for him. His father was a Vietnam vet who gets off on women's shoes a stranger was tricked into buying because "that's what [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] did to me!"

** His role in ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

Patton Peter Oswalt (born January 27, 1969 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American stand-up comic and actor, known for his "nerd-philosopher" comedic style, and working with fellow alternative comedians such as Brian Posehn, Creator/DavidCross, Creator/ZachGalifiniakis, Maria Bamford, and Blaine Capatch. He has a daughter named Alice, and was married to crime writer Michelle [=McNamara=], until she suddenly passed away in April, 2016. In 2017 he married actress Creator/MeredithSalenger.

** He's ranted about people who attack the slightest cases of non-PC behavior, even from people like him who are genuinely trying to not offend anyone and simply can't keep up with what feels like a whole new set of rules every week. He also had some choice words for the people who attacked Creator/RuPaul for using the word "tranny," since if ''anyone'' has NWordPrivileges on that one...

** He's ranted about people who attack the slightest cases of non-PC behavior, even from people like him who are genuinely trying to not offend anyone and simply can't keep up with what feels like a whole new set of rules every week. He also had some choice words for the people who attacked [=RuPaul=] for using the word "tranny," since if ''anyone'' has NWordPrivileges on that one...