Artist Patton Oswalt

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Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt has been on a hot streak as both a comedian and an actor for the past several years: ringmaster of the Comedians Of Comedy tour, voice of the cartoon rat in Ratatouille, star of Big Fan, and a recurring character in Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica. His latest comedy CD, 2009’s My Weakness Is Strong, is as hilarious as ever, capturing his smart, geeky, sarcastic observations on everything from fatherhood to the absurdity of religion to grocery-store robots that make you do all the work. Onstage, online, and on his albums, Oswalt zeroes in on a joke with the focused intensity of a laser—an approach he also takes to the essays collected in his debut as an author, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland.

Updated 01/05/2011