# Patton Oswalt : Annihilation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164 "2017-10-17T22:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/1 "2017-10-17T22:50:20Z")
Has anyone else seen Patton’s new special on Netflix? Honestly, it made me chuckle a little, but it’s not an amazing comedy show. Having this, the section he talks about his wife’s death is devastating and beautiful. He talks about how the day of his wife’s death was his second worst day of his life. The next day, when he told his daughter, was the worst. “I took my daughter who was everything to me and I took everything that mattered to her. I destroyed her.” Wow, man. It was devastating. I can’t believe he’s on his feet doing comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/2 "2017-10-17T23:08:10Z")
I saw him live earlier this year, so I imagine this is pretty much the same set I saw then. I’ll check it out in a day or two. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/3 "2017-10-17T23:28:30Z")
Does this include the bit where he talks about My Little Pony? I thought that was funny and sweet as well. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/4 "2017-10-17T23:36:11Z")
I’ll probably check it out sometime this week. I added it to my list, but then I felt the urge to go kill Orcs instead. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/5 "2017-10-17T23:36:49Z")
We saw him live this summer in DC. I assume it’s the same set – it was devastating but amazingly well done. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/6 "2017-10-17T23:37:02Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Does this include the bit where he talks about My Little Pony? I thought that was funny and sweet as well. No, but I think that may have been in his previous special. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/7 "2017-10-17T23:39:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I saw him live earlier this year, so I imagine this is pretty much the same set I saw then. I’ll check it out in a day or two. I saw him live earlier this year and finished the special, 80% of the material in the netflix special was covered in his set. Still good though, however he is better live. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/8 "2017-10-18T01:15:56Z")
I thought it was great. Sure, it wasn’t a laugh a minute the entire time, but that’s ok. He nailed his jokes and I knew there was going to be sad stuff. I cried, but I knew that would happen. I think about his daughter a lot. “Tell her in sunshine.” Oof. Right in the feels. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/9 "2017-10-18T02:10:24Z")
I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s on my list. I like Patton in general so I expect I’ll enjoy the new show. I’m curious to see how he does in finishing Michelle’s book. Talk about a heavy duty labor of love. I heard his story about the super-drunk Casino crowd the other day on Sirius Radio. What a crack up. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/10 "2017-10-18T02:49:39Z")
Oswalt is awesome and watching his evolution has been fascinating. I haven’t seen the latest one yet but he’s always a joy to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/11 "2017-10-18T03:56:16Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Does this include the bit where he talks about My Little Pony? I thought that was funny and sweet as well. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > No, but I think that may have been in his previous special. Yeah, that was in _Talking for Clapping_. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/12 "2017-10-18T21:44:59Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Oswalt is awesome and watching his evolution has been fascinating. I haven’t seen the latest one yet but he’s always a joy to listen to. I remember when he was younger him doing jokes about how he didn’t want kids, and then him parlaying that into doing jokes about how important his daughter is to him. It was nice to watch the transition. He seems like a good guy and I wish him the best in all this. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/13 "2017-10-18T22:09:38Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Oswalt is awesome and watching his evolution has been fascinating. I haven’t seen the latest one yet but he’s always a joy to listen to. I thought I had heard the funniest thing ever when he tells the story of the magician who “hate-fucks the audience with magic”, until I heard him tell the story of him walking his dog in New York and comes across two homeless dudes (one of them is blowing the other for crack). Rolling, side-splitting, in pain laughing! But alas, no Netflix! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/14 "2017-10-18T22:14:27Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I thought I had heard the funniest thing ever when he tells the story of the magician who “hate-fucks the audience with magic”, until I heard him tell the story of him walking his dog in New York and comes across two homeless dudes (one of them is blowing the other for crack). I think my all-time favorite routines of his are the one about the worst set he’s ever done, the one about Black Angus, and the one about '80s metal. Out of this special, I think his story about the fight on the Sunset Strip at last call was the funniest, alongside his fear of the old Polish woman from the airport ruining every future holiday for his daughter. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/15 "2017-10-18T23:26:58Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I remember when he was younger him doing jokes about how he didn’t want kids, and then him parlaying that into doing jokes about how important his daughter is to him. It was nice to watch the transition. He seems like a good guy and I wish him the best in all this. Yes, and his newfound love of sweat pants! My favorite story so far is his daughter being scared by a kiddie cartoon about a skeleton and thinking the Wolfman was a dog in a sweater. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/16 "2017-10-19T01:30:07Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I thought I had heard the funniest thing ever when he tells the story of the magician who “hate-fucks the audience with magic”, until I heard him tell the story of him walking his dog in New York and comes across two homeless dudes (one of them is blowing the other for crack). > > Rolling, side-splitting, in pain laughing! > > But alas, no Netflix! I like his bit about [KFC famous bowls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfan5MacmsI), and his bit about [death bed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01l1WIC9mBo). I think finest hour is his best album, but werewolves & lollipops is extremely good too. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/17 "2017-10-19T02:38:04Z")
I can’t find the link now but someone actually recreated the food he described in his Black Angus bit and ate it. I enjoyed the special. I didn’t cry but the story about telling his daughter really was powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/18 "2017-10-19T04:33:08Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I can’t find the link now but someone actually recreated the food he described in his Black Angus bit and ate it. [Here you go.](http://www.adweek.com/creativity/man-actually-cooks-entire-disgusting-meal-described-patton-oswalts-fake-ad-black-angus-153045/) “Black Angus: The doors lock from the outside, faggot!” ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/19 "2017-10-19T04:47:31Z")
I saw it. I loved it. I absolutely loved the part where he said he used to have an ongoing discussion-cum-argument with his wife, where he was an agnostic, who said maybe there’s some power, and some plan we’re too puny to see, and she’d say “Nope, no plan. It’s all random chaos.” And she won in the shittiest way possible! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164/20 "2017-10-22T16:58:50Z")
Just finished watching it. As a recent widow the parts about his wife’s death really hit home to me - a “numb slog” indeed. Also related to his daughter wanting to go to school the following Monday, as trying for a bit of normal in her life. Yeah, I get it. Also laughed while crying about the bit in the cemetery with the “NO!” dentist-drill-Celine-Dion-My-Heart-Will-Go-On sound effects. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patton-oswalt-annihilation/799164.md?page=2)