Oswalt is set to make his directorial debut Sept. 20 with his fourth Netflix hour, aptly titled 'We All Scream.'
’s call from his car on the 405, where the Emmy-winning comic spoke candidly about making content for a fractured America and contending with both wokeness and cancel culture.It’s funny, everything that I do in other areas, writing, acting, producing, is so that I can increase my visibility and keep doing stand-up. The stand-up is always something that I’m doing. I’m either in the process of working on the next set or thinking about what that next hour is going to look like.
I meant that more as an ironic me, asking, “Hey, who’s ready to laugh?” Like, after all of the hell we’ve been through, the absurdity of what a comedian does at this point, I really feel like an emcee ina lot of the time. Like, what am I really doing against this seeming tide of darkness that we’re facing? So, the title was meant to be funny in a desperate kind of way. My interpretation was more, like, “Hey, I’m the entertainment on the Titanic right now,” because that’s how it feels these days.
I think I’ve always been very trusting of my audiences to just kind of rise to the occasion and get whatever the joke is going to be, rather than trying to pre-anticipate, like, “Okay, so what’s the mood of the country? What should I be saying?” It’s like I know that at least my audience, and I hope this doesn’t sound like a brag, but they’ll get that I’m joking and that I’m trying to embrace the absurdity of everything we’re living in.
Yeah. But, you know, that ended up being really, really hopeful for me. I’m going to quote my friend Bobcat Goldthwait here, but once you go out in the world, especially as a touring comedian, what you find out is that Twitter and the internet is not the world. Twitter and the internet amplifies a mutant version of the world for entertainment clicks. But in the actual world, people, for the most part, are struggling to help each other and live lives and try to just be human beings.
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