What does a guy do after the Broadway show he's starring in gets canceled because of his performance and then he's removed from a comedy pilot after the first table reading? Well, if he's Patton Oswalt, he scours the Internet to find out if disingenuous no-talents are stealing his stand-up material! Oswalt took to MySpace -- God love you, Patton, but really: MySpace? -- to out a pathetic joke stealer named Nick Madson, a Colorado comedian who did Oswalt's routine at a club in Iowa on Wednesday. Needless to say: Someone get Madson a helmet.
After calling the him a "thief" in an earlier post, Oswalt actually got a correspondence from Madson that claimed the stolen jokes were just a tribute planned for a benefit show to support the club where the performance was held. Uh, yeah, nope.
As it turns out, all of that was made up: It was no tribute and the club in question isn't in trouble. In a blog posted on Saturday -- titled, fittingly, "A**holery" -- Oswalt wrote directly to Madson: "I'm sorry I merely called you a 'thief.' You are also an a**hole, sociopath and liar ... You craven, pudding-spined cl*toris of a man." No truth to the rumor that Carlos Mencia just made that one of his punchlines.
· Patton Oswalt Outraged at Joke-Stealing Comic [Huffington Post]
· A**holery! [MySpace/Patton Oswalt]