Patton Oswalt

#LAWebAwards: The 2013 Winners List

The Internet just won't stand still. A few years ago it was all about Facebook and Twitter. Then Pinterest, then GIFs. Now we're all taking a crash course in something called Vine. Oh, and did you hear MySpace is back — and Yahoo is beating Google? But as online life continues to evolve, the ... More >>

His Weakness Is Strong

Chicken Over Beef: KFC's Boneless Fried Chicken Nontraditional Burger Alternatives

Poultry is no longer an afterthought at traditionally beef-oriented fast food chains like McDonald's and Burger King, which earlier this year launched, respectively, a chicken wrap and a turkey burger on their menus. For insiders, the new items are just evident of a longtime wave toward beef alterna ... More >>

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including UCB's Thanksgiving Feast

Let's all give thanks we have bountiful great comedy in this town. 5. 17th Nerdmelt Horrible Movie Night Hosts John Mathot and Susan Wright, along with the awesome musical improv team Love Jet, get ruthless on Alienator with Jan Michael Vincent. Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics, Sat., Nov. 17, 8 p.m.

A New Documentary About Lucha Libre: 'Like Bill Simmons Channeling Octavio Paz'

In the long, tortured, maddening relationship between Southern California and Mexico, we have only wholeheartedly accepted three things from the Empire of the Sun: "96 Tears," the taco, and lucha libre. From the moment Mexican wrestling movies started airing on late-night movie matinees during the 1 ... More >>

How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became One of the Hottest Comedy Clubs in L.A.

It's just after 10 p.m. and already five comedians have done their thing when comic Eddie Pepitone strides up to start his set. Short, bald and decidedly unhinged, Pepitone gives the air of a blue-collar Buddha: a wizened, workaday sage who happens to be slightly crazy-eyed. Getting right to the po ... More >>

A NIght of Comedy for Project ALS

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Twitter: 10 of Our Favorite Food-Related Tweets

Twitter turned six years old this past Wednesday, which means six years of communicating via intermittent bursts of 140-character sound bytes and six years of convincing ourselves that even the most mundane of thoughts are worthy of a megaphone. According to the official Twitter blog, there are now ... More >>

Beth Lapides' Un Cabaret

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL

NATASHA LEGGERO

Appropriate Satire Required

Natasha Leggero Is Cool

Harlan Ellison and Patton Oswalt Visit Jar

Here's comedian Patton Oswalt crashing a chat with Harlan Ellison at Cinefamily. The brilliant, irascible sci-fi writer known for his rants (our favorite: "Pay the Writer") is there to discuss the limited-edition re-release of The Glass Teat, his collected writings on television. When Oswalt hijac ... More >>

Paul F. Tompkins, Garry Shandling, Margaret Cho and Other Comedians Show Their Favorite Movies at Cinefamily

Patton Oswalt Considers Downton Abbey Via Twitter: Tea, Sauce Maggie Smith

As all PBS Anglophiles know, the highly anticipated second season of Downton Alley aired last night. (6 days, X minutes to go until the next one...) Why do we care? Because we're all secret monarchists who would trade every taco truck and empanada stand in this town for a sitdown cup of tea and toas ... More >>

The Heart, She Holler: Patton Oswalt and Kristen Schaal Star in New, Creepy Adult Swim Miniseries

The Heart, She Holler​ The Heart, She Holler is a TV dream for fans of bizarre comedies. The six-episode miniseries, set to debut on Adult Swim this Sunday night, was created by Vernon Chatman, John Lee and Alyson Levy. Chatman and Lee are best known as co-creators of the scathing children's t ... More >>

Patton Oswalt: Geekdom's Pundit

Five Nerd Heroes From LA Weekly's New People Issue

Patton Oswalt and Grumpus​ LA Weekly's brand new People Issue, out on newsstands Thursday, has enough nerd heroes to fill a whole, err, nerds don't know sports. But they do like systems and categorization, and so we put them in a list: 5. James Urbaniak

GYM RATTING

PATTON OSWALT WROTE A BOOK

COURTESY OF PATTONOSWALT.COM:

THE "D" STANDS FOR "DONATE"

AWAY IN A MANGER . . . LAUGHING YOUR ASS OFF!

DAD! YOU'RE EMBARRASSING ME!

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION . . .

THE WEIRD WORLD OF WEINBACH . . . RECORDED!

Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman’s Ball and Other Signs of Aging

What to do in L.A., June 5-11

COMEDIANS: A BUNCH 
OF CELLULOID-OUTS

Over the Weekend: SXSW, Absinthe Tasting, L.A. Fashion Week, Comedy is Dead

Whether you were in Austin, Texas for the kick off of the SXSW Film and Interactive Festival and Conferences or in Los Angeles for the madness that is Fashion Week, it is safe to assume you didn't get much shuteye over the weekend. L.A. Weekly worked overtime in both cities Thursday through Sunday t ... More >>

Comedy is Dead Returns to Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Headliner Patton Oswalt

Comedy is Dead, the excellent comedy and music revue which brightens up Hollywood Forever Cemetery's hallowed Masonic hall from time to time, was back in full force on Thursday night, and Duncan Trussell - one of the comics performing as well as one of the organizers of the show - had some question ... More >>

Must Be This Funny to Get In

Big Star + Little Movie = Five Dollars Well Spent

The Worst Hoopla Ever!

What to do in L.A., January 2-8

Festive! All! Celebrating Lobsters, Cheese, Downtown, Abbot Kinney and Valley Film

What to do in L.A., September 26-October 2

With Friends Like These ...

What Would Patton Oswalt Need Most If He Traveled Through Time? And What's the Weirdest YouTube Video That Seth MacFarlane Has Seen Recently?

Questioning the comedians at Yuk-Fest and the premiere of Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoons

Fall-Time Yuk-Fest: Time Travel With Patton Oswalt and Comedy's Finest

Deep in the heart of Echo Park, surrounded by taco trucks and fruit vendors, cash-only dive bars and my ex-boyfriends, there exists a Time Travel Mart off Sunset Boulevard that supplies an array of collectibles one might need (or want) from the past or future; collectibles like human emotion chips f ... More >>

Generally Patton

Free-food Alert!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Ask A Ninja and Patton Oswalt, El Rey, 12/5

Another Day of the Ninja has come and gone, leaving us all a bit sad for its passing, as this holiday season can sometimes do. Hundreds of budding young ninjas, cleverly disguised as 20-something nerds and geeks, converged on the El Rey Wednesday night for the first ever live performance of Ask ... More >>

Shout Out Louds

Who do I gotta blow to get a drink around here? It's very annoying that you have to choose between drinks and seeing bands. The "beer garden" is roped off and you can't see a stage anywhere from it. I guess I get it though, because there's also a lot of 14 year olds wandering around, which, if I w ... More >>

Now With Double the Patton Oswalt!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Features

Dancing On the Moon

Looking for the meaning of “alternative” with a pair of L.A.’s newest comedy impresarios

They Might Be Giants

Bombs, Bush & Baseball

HE-E-E-E-RE’S FUNNY!

Going to a comedy club is risky business — but fear not, we’re there for you

Ding-Dong Electro-Song

Edited by Kateri Butler

Chinese Baby Girls attack L.A.!

Edited by Kateri Butler

Hello, Polly!