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I used to bash him back in the day (when he was still relatively obscure) for being a David Cross rip-off except without a shred of the edginess. For all of Cross’s jewy faggotry, it took a lot of balls to say the shit he was saying about Bush and the war in 2002 (in Shut up you fucking baby! I mean). No comic was saying that kind of shit that soon after 9/11 except maybe Doug Stanhope. Not even Carlin. Patton of course was not a ‘political’ comic back then at all, but now that it’s chic to be a ‘political comic’ he’s “come out” as it were, except being ‘political’ now means being pro-establishment.
So Patton has always played it safe, being either apolitical or pro-establishment, and even “Werewolves and Lollipops” contains nothing remotely edgy in it whatsoever (I was in the front row in Austin where he recorded that and was bored to tears). One decent line about “Jon Voight’s ballsack” to make a point about the Star Wars prequels that had already been made by other nerd fags a zillion times. Tell another space nerd joke, stupid. Blaine Capatch who opened for him (who was once the host of “Beat the Geeks” on Comedy Central) was much funnier.
So Patton has always played it safe, being either apolitical or pro-establishment, and even “Werewolves and Lollipops” contains nothing remotely edgy in it whatsoever (I was in the front row in Austin where he recorded that and was bored to tears). One decent line about “Jon Voight’s ballsack” to make a point about the Star Wars prequels that had already been made by other nerd fags a zillion times. Tell another space nerd joke, stupid. Blaine Capatch who opened for him (who was once the host of “Beat the Geeks” on Comedy Central) was much funnier.