国籍：美国 出生地：弗吉尼亚州 生日：1969年1月27日 简介：Comedian Patton Oswalt translated his acerbic, defiantly absurdist sensibility into surprising mainstream success, enjoying a thriving television and film career without dulling his edge. Born January 27, 1969, in Portsmouth, Virginia, Oswalt initially pursued a career as a writer, and also worked as a paralegal before performing his first open-mike gig at the Washington, D.C., club Garvin's in the summer of 1988. He began his professional standup career the following year and in 1992 relocated to San Francisco, continuing to hone his craft in nightclubs. After collaborating with fellow comedian Blaine Capatch on Food for Thought, a series of short films for the cable network Comedy Central, Oswalt settled in Los Angeles in 1995, working as a writer on Fox's fledgling sketch program Mad TV and appearing on HBO Comedy Showcase. In 1996, he made his feature film debut with a brief role in the comedy flop Down Periscope. Cast as nerdy Spence Olchin in the long-running CBS sitcom The King of Queens in 1998, Oswalt worked alongside veteran standups Kevin James and the great Jerry Stiller, solidifying his rising profile via roles in the features Magnolia, Man on the Moon, and Zoolander. In 2003, he even expanded into the world of comic books, writing the DC one-shot JLA: Welcome to the Working Week. 从艺历程：Oswalt's debut standup LP, Feelin' Kinda Patton, appeared on MichaelPenn and Aimee Mann's United Musiciansimprint in 2004.The indierock fanzine Chunklet also released an unedited and unexpurgatedtwo-disc version ofthe same performance as 222. In the fall of2004Oswalt teamed with Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn, and MariaBamford as the Comedians of Comedy, a collective that eschewedtraditional standup clubs in favor of indie rockvenues. A feature filmdocumenting their tour followed in 2005, as did a six-episode ComedyCentral series.In 2007,Oswalt appeared in a number of voice actingroles,including Jimin an episode ofSpongeBob SquarePants andRémy, the star of the Pixar film Ratatouille.In 2007 he releasedWerewolves and Lollipops, with My Weakness ls Strong following in2009. Finest Hour arrived in 2011, with Patton discovering "The MiracleofSweatpants." Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time followed in 2014and focused on the highs and low of parenting with tracks like "| Am aGreat Dad" and "| Am an Awful Dad," respectively. In April 2016,Oswalt debuted anew comedy special, Talking forClapping, the title referencing an infamous recording of an intoxicatedJohn Wayne delivering a speech at a ROTC function in the late '60s.Tragically,the standup special debuted just days before Oswalt's wifewriter Michelle McNamara, died unexpectedly at the age of 46.Talkingfor Clapping went on to win an Emmy Award for Best Writing for aVarietySpecial, and in September 2016, it was released as an album byASpecial Thing Records.The following year, he released the comedyspecial, Patton Oswalt: Annihilation, to Neflix.