Patton Oswalt is a comedian, a bloody good comedian in fact and his particular style of comedy is what’s referred to in the industry as ‘reference humour’, wherin the jokes are based around the perverted regurgitation of familiar cultural terms, artifacts and experiences: the old delivered in a new light, it feels shocking and yet still inherently true. Given that we all currently live at a time in which the geek has inherited the earth this certain sense of humour is at both its most prevalent and its most potent levels and yet, and yet this is quite conclusively not Patton Oswalt’s most successful show, despite what the referential moniker would have you believe (an hour, is of course the industry term for a Comedian’s set).

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