Patton Oswalt Will Perform Stand Up Again in September
Patton Oswalt hasn’t felt much like being funny on stage since his wife unexpectedly passed away earlier this year. But he’s been giving indications that he’ll soon get back to performing. Sunday he tweeted that he is planning to get back on stage next month, and posted a clip from HBO’s Deadwood. He says the clip is the closest he can come to giving an explanation of why. In the clip, Ian McShane’s character says “Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair, or f—ing beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.”
The post was similar in tone to one he made on Facebook earlier this month, where he announced he would be coming back to the stage “soon”. On Facebook he posted, “What other choice do I have? Reality is in a death spiral and we seem to be living in a cackling, looming nightmare-swamp. We’re all being dragged into a shadow-realm of doom by hateful lunatics who are determined to send our planet careening into oblivion.”
Oswalt’s wife, Michelle McNamara died in April, unexpectedly, shockingly and since then Oswalt has spoken in different forums about the devastation that her death has created. He posted a eulogy in Time magazine in May, and earlier this month, posted a heartbreaking Facebook post addressed “to grief” where he said he was face down and frozen for weeks. After 102 days, he felt he was only crawling, which he called, an improvement.
I'm gonna start doing stand-up again next month. This is the closest I can come to a reason why: https://t.co/ygsT7czFNy
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) August 28, 2016
