Oswalt and the Unspeakable
This has to be the greatest comedy sequence yet seen in the history of Twitter:
Oops. Just deleted my last Tweet. & would like to apologize to seniors & sufferers of Lyme disease. I was out of bounds.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014
Yikes. Had to delete another Tweet. I crossed a line on that one. Also, I thought 12 YEARS A SLAVE and THE BUTLER were brilliant.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014
PLEASE disregard last Tweet. Already deleted. Transphobia is hurtful, and I'm a big fan of HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014
Forgive me. Previous Tweet deleted. Sorry. Yes, we all know what "grape", "ape", "tape" & "cape" rhyme with. I'm an asshole.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014
Previous Tweet very hurtful. Already deleted. @KimKardashian & @JoeBiden are national treasures. As are our Native American friends.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014
Another Tweet deleted. I apologize. That one was just mean. Go ahead & block me, @AnthonyCumia & @thelindywest. #tolerance
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014
The FUCK is wrong with me? Last Tweet deleted. The victims of the Holocaust deserve our highest respect, not penis limericks.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014
Gonna leave Twitter for a bit. Deleted my last Tweet. Just because "Don Sterling" rhymes with "Gone curling" doesn't make it funny.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014
Staging a micro-cultural non-event whose character is nevertheless graphically implied by the subsequent ‘apology’ — Hilarious, topical, experimental, and deep. (He has over 1.7 million followers, which makes the whole business even funnier.)
ADDED: Scroll down to the end of this for another Oswalt troll masterpiece (3edgy5me).
ADDED: hbd* chick has more.
ADDED: Unfollow this monster!
surprising– he tweets from the inner comedy post code of the Cathedral
what’s he up to?
(also his pals julie klausner and tom sharpling will not be pleased!)
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May 8th, 2014 at 6:32 am
You clearly know far more about this than I do. (Still in the delightedly thunderstruck stage.)
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Patton is a well-adjusted member of mainstream society and bows to its dictates, but he’s irrepressibly open-minded. He was a big defender of Jim Goad a few years ago, until Goad presumably tweeted something he ought to have deleted or the like. This is a swell bit of humor jui-jitsu.
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Posted on May 8th, 2014 at 7:54 am | QuoteFirst Sailer, then Steyn, now these…
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Posted on May 8th, 2014 at 2:22 pm | QuoteThis exchange was particularly great. An incredible amount of people didn’t get it, some one fan had to draw a diagram.
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Posted on May 8th, 2014 at 4:15 pm | QuoteI don’t get it.
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Posted on May 8th, 2014 at 8:49 pm | QuoteOswalt’s brilliant satire a la the spirit of “trolling,” is to the Cathedral what Voltaire’s “Candide” was to Leibniz’s “best of all possible worlds” thesis- a masterful lampooning. I haven’t laughed so hard in a while.
Jim Goad’s “The Redneck Manifesto” is full of such witty insights into just how inane the emergent politically correct ethno/racial narrative has become:
“Be as black as you wanna be. Be so black, you cause an eclipse. I don’t care. Just quit staring at me. And give me back my wristwatch. That was a joke. Really. Look, just give me back my watch, or I’m calling the cops.”
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Posted on May 8th, 2014 at 11:17 pm | QuoteExtra bonus points to the puritanical rape-joke shamer for being called “coolsexguy”.
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Posted on May 9th, 2014 at 3:51 pm | QuoteOoh ooh… HEY THAT’S THE GUY IN JUSTIFIED. Damn good show. He plays a very funny, pathetic and occasionally massively heroic role.
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Posted on May 10th, 2014 at 2:15 am | Quote