This guy is really good at memorizing.

[Christina]

From Patton Oswalt's Facebook fan thing:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twW8GgrbWwc[/youtube]

&

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWq1yAWPBsc[/youtube]

I got about 2-3 minutes into the first one. If it gets better (you can define that however you want) let me know and I might watch the rest!

[AaronC]

Patton's response:

http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew

[Christina]

Patton's response:

http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew

Yeah, it's pretty bad. The guy doesn't even work very hard to put inflections into the thing in order to make it sounds like these things occurred to him. It's rote recitation. It's pathetic that he went to the trouble of memorizing all of this. I hope this shit spreads all over the internet so the guy gets shamed down to his core.

I tried to google the guy but all that comes up is a link to these clips. Has anyone found out anything else about him?

PS God bless Patton for working a Powell Pressburger reference into his rant.

[Big Plastic Head]

That is incredible.

[AaronC]

I tried to google the guy but all that comes up is a link to these clips. Has anyone found out anything else about him?

He is an actor/comedian named Nick Madson (the videos make it look like his name is Nick Hilltop, but Hilltop is apparently the name of the theater).  He has a website and myspace page.  That's about it.  Just a hack.

[Christina]

Doing! That was my problem. I think the videos have hit Videogum, so the guy's basically toast now.

[Omar]

The outing of Mr. Madson is causing me to rethink my plan to do Rich Vos jokes at my set tonight.  I could only get through about 10 seconds of the clip of him repeating PO's KFC Bowls material.  Truly horrifying stuff.  A few weeks ago, I did Jake Johannsen's entire 1991 HBO Special, This'll Take About An Hour, at an Open Microphone event.  I did it in 45 minutes and everyone loved it.  I even ran the gauntlet in the High-Five Zone pre-show!  People were cheering so loudly (some were even stomping and chanting) that I came out for an encore and did that Adam Sandler joke about Wilt Chamberlain's teammates telling him that they were open and that maybe he should pass them the ball and not hog it so much en route to his 100 points.  The club manager yanked me off the stage to do lines before I could dip into the Mario Joyner stuff.

[Harpsichord]

This is honestly difficult to watch.

[Steve of Bloomington]

Woah. This is like the kid in 5th grade who would recite all of Carlin's routines, only that kid didn't sound like a motivation speaker at a corporate team building exercise when he delivered the lines.

Also: Videogum? What's that?

From Patton Oswalt's Facebook fan thing:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twW8GgrbWwc[/youtube]

&

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWq1yAWPBsc[/youtube]

I got about 2-3 minutes into the first one. If it gets better (you can define that however you want) let me know and I might watch the rest!

[Chris L]

In happier news, Patton has hired me to ghosttweet for his official Twitter account launching this weekend.  

[Geoff Johnston]

Woah. This is like the kid in 5th grade who would recite all of Carlin's routines...

Look, I was the kid in 5th grade who would recite Carlin routines to my friends.  But even then, as a child, I had enough sense to preface said recitations with, "I watched this George Carlin video last night and he was all like...[insert mangled version of 'A Place For My Stuff' here]."

[Steve of Bloomington]

A lot of kids weren't so good about crediting their sources. I lead a sheltered Catholic life, so I thought my friend was a comic genius. Later I find out he stole all his material.

On those lines, the story of the grand meeting of Mike Watt and D Boon involves D Boon going reciting some Carlin routines.

Big difference between doing that for friends and going onstage doing it for money, of course.

I'm sure you and D Boon were WAY better at it than this guy, too.

Woah. This is like the kid in 5th grade who would recite all of Carlin's routines...

Look, I was the kid in 5th grade who would recite Carlin routines to my friends.  But even then, as a child, I had enough sense to preface said recitations with, "I watched this George Carlin video last night and he was all like...[insert mangled version of 'A Place For My Stuff' here]."

[Andy]

You guys have never heard of parallel thinking?

[ChrisRawk]

That's amazingly shameless.  Wow.

[mackro]

Having lived with a diagnosed pathological liar (and kleptomaniac, long story), this guy looks like a perfect archetype of one. He moves like one, he sends out icy blasts like one.... and the "Yeah, I wrote those for Patton, and Louis, etc.", well, to me that last detail is really funny, but only because it's so horrific.  I feel bad for Patton.