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It was a dark and stormy night…
Oh, hold on…. It was actually quite sunny. In fact, it was a nice night—which made it all the more pathetic that I was stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the theater to watch a teen comedy. As I inched along through traffic, I called a colleague to make sure I’d have a seat when I finally got to my [pathetic] destination.
“Did you listen to that Patton Oswalt CD yet?” he asked as I explained my dilemma.
“No, but I’ve got it right here. Maybe now’s a good time to give it a listen,” I replied.
After I hung up the phone, I took his advice and popped in Patton Oswalt’s live stand-up comedy CD, Werewolves and Lollipops—and by the time I got to the theater, I was laughing too hard to care about traffic jams and corny teen comedies.
You’ve probably seen Patton Oswalt somewhere before—he’s had all kinds of small, comedic roles in all kinds of TV shows and movies (he was even the voice of the main rat, Remy, in Ratatouille). But you probably have no idea just how funny he is. I know I didn’t.
From the very beginning of his show (which he starts with a simple “I’m drunk. Here we go.”) to the very end, Werewolves and Lollipops is full of all kinds of insightful and brilliantly funny observations. Oswalt starts by discussing KFC’s new “failure pile in a sadness bowl,” and over the next hour or so, he discusses everything from politics to movies to birthdays to four-star chefs to Cirque Du Soleil. The humor is sometimes nerdy and sometimes shocking—but it’s almost always hilarious (though, admittedly, there are a few uncomfortable moments).
Just as a good book is hard to put down, a good comedy CD is hard to turn off. And at one point, as I was waiting for Oswalt to finish just one more story, I found myself sitting in the garage with the car still running, hoping the carbon monoxide wouldn’t kill me before I found out what happened at Cosco. All I can say is it’s a good thing the tracks are relatively short.
Of course, as with most comics, Oswalt’s humor isn’t exactly clean. So it’s best not to listen to Werewolves and Lollipops with your kids or your grandma in the car. But this CD is just the thing to help you make it through a long commute or an infuriating traffic jam.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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