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May 8, 2014 · What makes Oswalt’s comedy sly, surreal, and subversive “in real life” makes it a lightning rod for denunciation on Twitter. I can understand, if just barely, why he might get a kick out of...
Sep 4, 2023 · Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt shared that a man who attacked him on Twitter needed help, then encouraged people to help him. Oswalt donated $2000 himself toward the man's $5000 goal. A mere few hours later, his followers pushed it over $12,000.
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Jan 25, 2019 · Very kind human Patton Oswalt had the best response to a Twitter troll who attacked him on the internet this week. In an unconventional move, the comedian took to Twitter on Thursday,...
Jan 26, 2019 · Comedian Patton Oswalt helped a man on Twitter raise money to pay for his medical expenses. An exchange that started off toxic became kind and gracious.
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- The "Apology Letter" Photo
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- Memes
On January 1st, 2022, Patton Oswalt uploaded a carousel post to his Instagram featuring photos of him and fellow stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle (primary one shown below). Towards the end of 2021, Chappelle was involved in a controversy regarding his newest Netflix special, The Closer, which was released on October 5th, 2021. Publications like For...
When the images of Chappelle and Oswalt on New Year's Eve 2021 were posted to Instagram, Oswalt received lots of backlash across Twitter for his support of the canceled comedian. In response to this, Oswalt posted an image to his Instagramon January 2nd. 2022, that showed him in a dressing room writing a long apology letter in a very serious tone (...
Users across Twitter reacted to Oswalt's apology letter and post in the days following. Many of the reactions were negative. For instance, Twitter user Harry1T6 posted a tweet on January 3rd, 2022 (shown below, left), that expressed Oswalt's Instagram post as "unnecessary." It received 109 likes in three days. Twitteraccount VitoGesualdi posted a h...
Memes using the image of Oswalt writing the letter started appearing on Twitter going into early January 2022. The first person on the platform to use it as an exploitable was Twitteruser lunch_enjoyer, whose tweet (shown below) posted on January 3rd received roughly 1,300 likes over the course of two days. Other Twitter users also started followin...
Aug 19, 2013 · Patton Oswalt took to Twitter Saturday afternoon to fire off a series of two-part tweets on controversial topics that were all split into two different tweets at the worst possible times....
Oct 15, 2018 · Oswalt responded with laughing emojis to Bernstein’s labeling of the group as a “gang of racist virgins.”. 😂😂😂 https://t.co/o0GLw9Xz9v. One Twitter user named Augie was sympathetic enough to the Proud Boys to heckle Oswalt.
