Go Blues!

This legend of US comedy and TV will rock late nights at the Festival Club.

Creator and star of the hit US Comedy Central show and tour, the Comedians of Comedy, Patton features in Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live, King of Queens, Zoolander, NewsRadio and Seinfeld, and is heard in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Spongebob SquarePants, the video game “Grand Theft Auto”, and as the voice of Remy the rat in Ratatouille.

An actor, writer and stand-up for over 20 years, Patton’s style is acerbic, sarcastic and ingeniously comical. Mainstream audiences and self-confessed dorks alike will delight in his musings; ranging from comic book super villains and 1980s glam metal, to deeper societal issues such as rampant materialism, foreign policy, religion and G-rated smut.

Patton Oswalt is a regular columnist for The New York Times Magazine and has been named by Entertainment Weekly as their “It” comedian.

Time Out London Comic of the Year and Perrier and Barry Award Nominee returns to Melbourne with a new show that clears up the meaning of existence, leaving you free to worry about other things.

The last day of a festival is usually the best day. Either you’ve grown sick of being in grass fields full of overgrown idiots or all your favourite acts are playing on the final day. For me at the Falls Festival, this was a bit of both. Promising personal favourites such as Busdriver, Jose Gonzalez, Regurgitator and Girl Talk, I was going into 2008 either with a big fat smile on my face or vowing never to return to the sea side. With heats predicted to reach 42 degrees in the daytime, I was going into the new year with a big fat smile on my face (and a sweaty body to boot) or I’d be vowing to never visit the seaside town again. Which is it? Only one way to find out (and it’s the hard way unfortunately). Let’s get on with it.

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