Comedy Preview: Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt brilliantly lampooning NPR on his 2006 Comedy Central special No Reason to Complain remains one of my favorite bits by any stand-up comic, and I’ve faithfully gobbled up everything he’s produced since with reckless moth-to-a-flame glee. Oswalt’s anecdotal humor is unabashedly rife with geek-ery — the stuff of dreams for nerds like myself who savor obscure details and limitless observation in storytelling. That doesn’t mean his material lacks broader ac