Patton Oswalt

He married Michelle Eileen McNamara in 2005 and has a daughter with her.

He worked with PETA in 2013 to protest against the practice of chaining of pet dogs.

He was born to Larry Oswalt and his wife Carla. Larry was a U.S. Marine Corps Officer and the family used to move a lot because of his career.

He attended Broad Run High School in Virginia and graduated in 1987. He enrolled at the College of William and Mary where he majored in English and earned his degree in 1991.

While still at college he performed his first stand-up routine at an open mic in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and soon began performing comedy at small clubs in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C.

While performing at the clubs he met aspiring comedian Blaine Capatch and both became good friends. The duo traveled to San Francisco in 1992 to try their luck there, and from there they went to Los Angeles in 1994.

Oswalt got a job as a writer on the new comedy show ‘MAD TV’ in 1995. He worked there for two seasons before appearing in ‘HBO Half Hour Comedy Hour’ in 1997.

He found his big breakthrough when he was cast as Spencer "Spence" Olchin, a supporting character in the highly popular sitcom ‘The King of Queens’ in 1998. He played this role in 122 episodes of the show till 2007.

From 2003 till 2007 he lent his voice to the character Professor Demento in ten episodes of the animated children’s television series ‘Kim Possible’. During the 2000s he also served as a voice actor in several other television shows.

He voiced several characters including Dungeon Master, Kenny Rogers, Assassin, and Boozehammer of Galen in the television comedy series ‘Reno 911!’ from 2004 to 2009.

‘Young Adult’ was his breakthrough movie in which he played the character of a partially disabled man. His performance was lauded and he received several award nominations of which he won many. It is his most successful film so far.