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Portlandia Adds Juliette Lewis, Matt Lucas, Patton Oswalt And Others To Guest Star In Season 3

Source: Cinema Blend, Nov 27 2012, 9:17am CST

Part of the fun of IFC's sketch comedy series Portlandia is spotting the occasional guest star who might stop by the quirky town for a bit. We already knew that Chloe Sevigny is set to appear in the series' third season, and here's hoping she has more f ...

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Comedian Patton Oswalt Changes His Mind About Rape Jokes

Source: The Jane Dough  |   Jun 17 2013, 4:30pm CDT

“Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?” Last year Daniel Tosh told a female comedy fan to “get raped” after she interrupted his open mic set. Within hours, the Internet floodgates opened ...

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Patton Oswalt Weighs in on Rape Joke Controversy in Blog Post

Source: Pate Magazine  |   Jun 17 2013, 4:18pm CDT

“Just because I find rape disgusting, and have never had that impulse, doesn’t mean I can make a leap into the minds of women and dismiss how they feel day to day, moment to moment, in ways both blatant and subtle, from oth ...

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Patton Oswalt Changes Mind on Rape-Joke Debate

Source: Vulture  |   Jun 17 2013, 12:07pm CDT

So, recently a new round of the debate on rape jokes has started up, with Oswalt among those called out in a Salon piece that questioned the double standard of male comedians vocally condemning violence, but not ...

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Go Read This Loooong, Gooood Patton Oswalt Piece on Joke Theft, Rape Jokes, and Heckling

Source: The Stranger  |   Jun 14 2013, 6:50pm CDT

The comedians I’ve known who joke about rape—and genocide, racism, serial killers, drug addiction and everything else in the Dark Subjects Suitcase—tend to be, internally and in action, anti-violence, anti-bigotry, and decidedly anti-rape. It’s thei ...

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Patton Oswalt on “prodigalsam” plagiarism flap: “There’s no wiggle room there”

Source: AlterNet.org  |   Jun 14 2013, 4:59pm CDT

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Patton Oswalt on “prodigalsam” plagiarism flap: “There’s no wiggle room there”

Source: Salon  |   Jun 14 2013, 4:27pm CDT

Oswalt believes that Rhodes and other plagiarists whom he’s confronted in the past benefit from a cultural attitude that comedians are somehow less special or artistically ambitious than other culture indus ...

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Comedy: Great Job, Internet!: Read This: Patton Oswalt brain-dumps on comedy thieves, hecklers, and rape jokes

Source: The A.V. Club  |   Jun 14 2013, 4:25pm CDT

Earlier today, Oswalt posted a massive piece of writing broken into three chunks, in which he offers his take on comedians who steal jokes (and the public that doesn't care), a worldwide misperception about the shittiness of heckling, ...

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TV’s evolving ‘Justified’ star keeps it low key

Source: Miami Herald  |   Jun 14 2013, 3:47pm CDT

Justified just finished a typically terrific fourth season that featured the Detroit Mafia invading Kentucky, a marriage proposal from antihero Boyd Crowder to his love Ava and Patton Oswalt playing a constable who t ...

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The Coup x Patton Oswalt – “Magic Clap” (dir. Pete Lee)

Source: okayplayer  |   Jun 13 2013, 3:59pm CDT

Patton Oswalt teams with The Coup to deliver the hilarious video for “Magic Clap”, directed by Pete Lee. The footage features Patton Oswalt doing his very best to perform an interpretive dance that illustrates the lyrics without neglecti ...

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Q&A with Timothy Olyphant of 'Justified'

Source: The Bellingham Herald  |   Jun 13 2013, 9:59am CDT

LOS ANGELES - "Justified" just finished a typically terrific fourth season that featured the Detroit Mafia invading Kentucky, a marriage proposal from antihero Boyd Crowder to his love Ava and Patton Oswalt playing a constable who takes it (and takes it ...

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