Parks and Rec will feature two episodes tomorrow night, and Vince won’t watch them because he hates America, but our favorite stand-up comedian and nerd god Patton Oswalt will make a cameo in the second episode as yet another insane Pawnee resident with a problem that has nothing to do with the greater good of the fictional city.

Parks producer Dan Goor apparently told Oswalt just to improvise a filibuster about Star Wars, and the result is the greatest rambling mash-up of Star Wars, The Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men and Clash of the Titans that anyone could ever pull out of thin air. Seriously, this is f*cking beautiful and I’m going to watch it at least 600 times this week.

Patton Oswalt in a Batman Parody |College Humor|

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Just so we have at least one post on here today that isn’t Oscars-related hit-whoring, here’s a 10-minute documentary about Patton Oswalt, To Be Loved & Understood, from director Julien Nitzberg. Nitzberg previously directed The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, which is also pretty great, and available right now on Netflix Instant. Being that Patton Oswalt is my favorite comedian and has been for almost a decade, the whole tone of “I like Patton because I’m a nerd and his comedy is so nerdy!” of the fan interviews in the first half of the film annoys the ever-loving shit out of me. Patton’s nerdiness is part of him, but that’s not what makes him great. What makes him great is that Patton Oswalt will take a premise that a lot of comedians would get to – like being annoyed with his hippie friends telling him to have a natural childbirth, for example – and he’ll write a good, solid bit out of it, that only really good comics could and any would be proud to have written. But the beauty of Patton is that he’ll take that bit to another level, this layer that almost no other comedian gets to, a level of absurd wordplay and the fantastic that makes his jokes just a little more than a perfectly-wrapped bit package. Whereas most of the childbirth bit is just a better version of bits you’d hear other comedians doing, the line “last night I saw a jack rabbit with a woman’s face!” is that extra level of fantasy and wordplay that you only get with Patton.

See, you stupid nerds? Liking Patton Oswalt is for liberal arts majors! (*wedgies nerd*)(*wedgies self*)

I guess what I’m saying is that in 10 minutes, this little doc does a fantastic job getting at the way we all claim ownership and are fiercely protective of our own superficial little reasons for loving a comedian that we project onto him just because he happens to be good at explaining who he is in a relatable way. And that’s probably applicable to phenomenon of fandom in general. Great work. There should be more short documentaries in the world.

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Our favorite comedian, Patton Oswalt, recently sat down with the AV Club for their Random Roles feature, and while the entire thing is worth your time, Patton’s encounter with FilmDrunk’s Best Supporting Actor Nominee for 2012, Matthew McConaughey obviously deserves some special attention.

Failure To Launch (2006)—“Techie”
PO: Again, one scene. Me and Sarah Jessica Parker. She was a delight. I remember doing the table read with Matthew McConaughey before she was cast, and his dad was not played by Terry Bradshaw. It was Paul Dooley. He was the best. I said, “You are my favorite movie dad.” He was in Sixteen Candles and Breaking Away. And I think the mom was played by Kathy Bates, who was also amazing at the table read. Then McConaughey shows up in bike shorts and no shirt for the table read. I was sitting across from him, and I could see his right testicle.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: of all his skills, Matthew McConaughey’s best feature is how good he is at being Matthew McConaughey. The genius of Magic Mike was giving him a character that was even more McConaughey. Watching him was like watching a tiger crush a tapir’s neck in a nature film. Just A+ at being a tiger.

AVC: He literally was shirtless for a table read?

PO: Yes. If I looked like that, I’d be shirtless, too. I think he showed up on his bike, so he legitimately had been out biking.

As good as any McConaughey story always is, I think I was more intrigued by his story about Wesley Snipes on the set of Blade Trinity, who would sign post-it notes “Blade.”

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If you listen to Patton Oswalt’s comedy as slavishly and pathetically as I do, you know how much he loves Halloween, but even if you don’t, this picture of him dressed as Doctor Octopus with his daughter as Spider-girl should more than prove it. Jeez, all these awesome baby costumes going around, it’s almost enough to make me want to make a baby. So how ’bout it, ladies? Anyone got a soft womb for daddy to lay a swaddlin’? Whoa, whoa, simmer down, I can barely hear you over the sound of all your panties melting. Just know this: my seed will find purchase, in this life or the next.

Unpopular-but-entirely-earnest-assertion: Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 is the all-time best superhero-movie villain. KNIVES OUT!

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