Poor Patton. I really like him and this is a huge shock.
Michelle McNamara was only 46. She died in her sleep.
Shitty.
Another big Patton fan - hoping friends are rallying around him.
Holy crap. They have a young daughter too, right? How terrible.
Heartbreaking. I don’t know Patton personally at all, but I’m a huge fan of his comedy. Based on that, he seemed to love her very much…or that’s what I always felt while listening to it.
The death of loved ones of celebrities I’m a fan of is more upsetting to me than the celebrities themselves. intellectually I know why but am having trouble articulating.
His new Netflix special hit the same day, too.
Wow. My brother knows Patton Oswalt (bro is a CGI tech who works in Hollywood). It’s still 4:30am in LA. Wonder if my brother knows when did this happen?
Ach, what a terrible thing. Poor Patton.
Yeah. I watched his Netflix special yesterday and a lot of it revolved around his 6 yr old daughter.
Watching it now. I can’t help but wonder if he has a funny ring tone and received the news on his cell.
I can’t watch the special. All day long I was looking forward to watching it… and then Prince died and I needed to wallow in that for a few hours. It was going to be my relaxation at the end of the day… right about the time he tweeted the news. I’m sure I will watch it eventually, but I don’t think even he could make me laugh right now watching him. And if he did bits about her and their kid, it would just feel too sad. It’s like I respect and like him too much to be laughing at him right now even though I don’t know him and we’re supposed to laugh at his special.
ditto, well put
I remember when he did a bit about babies being like old men with bags of poop wrapped around them. But later he had a kid, and he fucking loved it. He seemed to be very happy with his family, and managed to make that joy funny. In many ways, the death of his wife that I know nothing about stings me more than most celebrity deaths.
I found it relaxing. Yes, it reminded me of why I like him so much, which makes the sorrow more, but it also made me feel better.
Just emotional cognitive dissonance, I guess. Normal for such a thing, I think.
Even though Prince is a much bigger name, and even though I don’t know all that much about her except that she was Patton Oswalt’s wife, I found the news of her death to be more of an immediate shock.
My wife told me the news the other day, and it stunned me. I’ve always considered us as a couple to be a lot like Patton and his wife: about the same age, had a daughter at about the same time, making lots of mistakes raising her while being atheistic and cynical…This news has caused me to reflect uncomfortably on how I would feel in the same situation. Can’t even imagine the devastation. My heart goes out to Patton.
And I too remember the old routines about babies and such, and was wryly amused when he got married and had a kid and just loved it to pieces. My favorite picture of dad-Patton is this one, from a few Halloweens ago. I would totally do that with the little Torqueling.
“When your mom dies you’re the best memory of her. Everything you do is a memory of her.” – Alice Oswalt, 7
Patton tweeted that earlier. Yikes.
The day before his wife died Patton was making all these comments about Prince dying, then his twitter went silent for a week before he made a couple comments about his wife.
I wonder if Patton will become a health nut due to this, out of some fear of his daughter growing up an orphan.
His brother (who is also really funny) has also been mostly twitter-absent. I saw Patton’s tweet earlier and it broke my heart.