Patton Oswalt
Appearances
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HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
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HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
Okay, that could be a case of them phrasing it badly and you guys being oversensitive. Okay. That could be a guy just saying, oh, let's show by example. It almost has the tone of an elementary school teacher. But because entertainers like us are basically broken children at heart, we're super sensitive. and we lash out. I don't think that that's heckling. That doesn't feel like heckling. Okay.
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HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
Okay.
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HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
Okay. Yeah, that is absolutely phrased as a heckle. But let me just tell you something. A lot of people... They want to be your friend. Like, they want to already fast forward to the negging stage where friends kind of rib each other.
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HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
So that could be somebody desperate for friendship by going, like, you guys have a clue. Come on, we're good, right? Yeah. That almost has a feeling of loneliness to me. You know, we break each other's balls. That's what we do. Come on. So... Treat them with ball-busting kindness, if that makes sense, if that's achievable.
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HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
Oh, yeah, well, I... It's at the beginning of, I think, my third or second-to-last special. I opened with a story about how I was heckled, and the guy won. And he was absolutely right. Like, he was absolutely friggin' right, and it was, like, right near the beginning of my career. And... Here's what you have to do in those situations, okay?
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HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
There are going to be nights where the audience wins or the heckler wins, especially when you're starting. And the most important thing to do is to wake up the next day and go, oh, world didn't end. It didn't affect anything. I have another chance to do it tonight. You can keep trying. You can keep doing it.
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HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
I think that's my strength and my weakness. I can end up seeing my haters point. Yeah. Also, I tell people, your hatred of me is no match for my self-loathing. Don't even try. I don't think you know what you're going up against right now.