Patton Oswald engaged to Meredith Salenger

The new journey of Natty Gann will be to find Patton's cock under his gut.

So much for being devastated and unable to recover.

Geez that's crazy. Won't be good for his daughter

"She would have wanted me to move on," plus new pussy!

daughter will stew in resentment; book later.

How did his wife die? Did he kill her?

You people are horrible.

Oh go fuck your self R6 You must be the new "you people are horrible troll" that has been hangin round lately. I remember her from shitty teen movies in the 80s huge tits and a piggy face. He was never a beauty queen but shit ! he looks bad ! I do think it is very strange he is engaged to someone after less than a year and half. Maybe he knocked her up and they don't want to live in sin. How quaint! Will she wear white at the wedding. Tacky Tacky.

He has a young daughter. He works a lot and probably wanted her to have a mom figure in her life.

They may have already known each other for years through various ways in the industry.

Fucking the daughter in a Garfield mask...yeeeeeeaaaah!

So he could have been fucking her before the wife died.

Psychologists have observed that men who really love their wives tend to remarry quickly after they die.

It's counterintuitive, but it's a thing.

R12 Why does it happen?

Or what R9 said. And Meredith chipped in and offered to help with his daughter. This is not an uncommon thing. It's not like the daughter is a teen. She's also an only child.

Yeah, that's interesting R12. Can you tell us why?

Does the same go for a basic breakup in which the woman is still living?

He's 48; she's 47. His wife died in April 2016. They've been dating a "few months."

Why the hurry to get married? It's his young daughter I'm thinking about.

he's gross

Maybe she froze some of her eggs and they want to have children R16. After everything that's happened Patton has probably been thinking a lot about Alice being an only child.

R13, largely transference. And they love the husband-wife unit so much that they're eager to replace it, and in fact are at sea without it: Oxytocin, the bonding hormone, is a bitch to withdraw from.

Women also tend to be drawn to widowers because they are proven monogamists and project vulnerability, which stands out in the dating pool.

Hate the Trumptards but this was the best Reddit burn of 2016.

And there you have it, folks, marriage is an addiction.

Waaaaay too many straight guys remarry far too soon. Here's hoping he's been in therapy and has taken the time to grieve.

Thanks R19. I don't know what to think of it. On the one hand I'm a hopeless romantic of the soulmate kind, so the idea of someone moving on so fast, even to another soulmate, kind of bums me out. You want to feel special.

On the other hand, life is short and being sad isn't going to solve anything. Plus when you have a child she/he takes priority, so having a second mother figure is good.

Oh, and the act of transference just seems cold or something. Not really good for the deceased wife nor the new one.

Uh, as a single older person I find this hard.

[quote]...moving on so fast, even to another soulmate...

Sometimes you just have to jump in the pool again as soon as possible.

More material for his act "My Regeneration: A New Chapter" He'll make the rounds of the talk shows and have heart-to-hearts with the Jimmys.

"You people are horrible."

Thank you! We do our best.

I just feel there is something off about him. He was very mouthy about the whole thing of his wife dying and almost immediately. I am not saying he killed her at all but the fact that he had this obviously troubled and sick wife didn't seem to see anything coming just seems like an odd disconnect. Maybe he is lonely and does not want the daunting task of raising a child alone. She is a educated accomplished woman hopefully she knows what she is doing. Wish them well but still think something is weird. Maybe the marriage had been bad for a long time and he is ready to feel alive and in love again. People do not make sense at all, including myself. My partner died suddenly after a short illness and for two years I could barely dress myself. He was my soul mate and I unfortunately 4 years later am still all fucked up. People throw the word soul mate around but you can not replace the irreplaceable and that quickly no sir !

Omg, I've always seen him as this sweet, grieving family man widower. Holy shit- she died with xanax, adderall and ducking fentanyl in her system!!! Writing a book about a serial killer... her death is SUPER suspicious and this abrupt marriage proposal is too.

Let's JonBenet this shit.

Something similar happened in my own life. My mother died pretty horribly of cancer, and my father was her caretaker. He loved her so much, despite the fact that she treated him like shit at times.

After she died, he remarried what I considered to be very quickly — this was two years, but seemed way too quick to me after a 30-year marriage — and not at all in his character.

Then I read the findings about the quick-remarriage phenomenon, and I understood and felt a bit better. I also read (as someone said above) that for caretakers, the husband-wife relationship ends well before the person dies, because it becomes carer-patient. So "too soon" may not be — tack on years.

Maybe this was the case with Patton, if his wife was an addict and suffered from severe anxiety/depression, as the meds she overdosed on might indicate.

I had told my father from the beginning that I wanted him (and he deserved) to have companionship, because I believed that, but I secretly judged and resented and grieved. Not that it was my place to do that.

Not a close parallel to this situation, but I just wanted to share what led to my studying the phenomenon a bit.

I loathe Oswald, always have, and so I am not surprised he's the exact kind of guy who would want to remarry a year after waking up next to his dead wife.

I mean someone's gotta take care of the kid and keep house while he's off touring or working several states away, right?

Also what R22 said — many straight men don't know how to care and fend for themselves. Emotionally as well as "who will do the shopping and help raise the kid."

Meredith was once the "it girl". And it didn't even last all that long. Patton was hilarious in Reno 911: Miami and he seems like a cool guy.

Heteros men are adults who know how to take care of themselves, they just don't think they should have to, because that's what broads are for. They're bang maids.

Where is the "life of a heterosexual..." troll for this thread?

Something stinks here and it ain't just his comedy act.

Who wouldn't want to immediately hook up with a doughy guy whose last wife was so miserable she accidentally ODed on narcotics?

He is a full blown narcissist- read his dramatic online letter to the WORLD about the day HE took his wedding ring off... and how hard it is to be a single dad and all the forms he has to fill out....

NOT a reference to his daughters feeling or the fact that his wife is dead and the loss of her life affects people OTHER then him

It's worth investigating the wife's death. It's not impossible that there was some funny business going on with that.

He killed her.

When my husband of 12 years died in a car wreck,I was literally in a fog for 2 years. I loved him so much ,the pain overwhelmed me to the point I couldnt make any decisions about anything,hence I lost our house,car, everything. To this day Im amazed I didnt kill myself. It was 7 years before I dated again.

I understand this, R41. Or at least I understand that someone would feel this way. The closest I've gotten is breaking up with my partner -- whom I loved deeply; I was cheated on and left -- after 15 years. My partner (who loved me too, and highly resented me leaving because I couldn't accept the infidelity) married the affair-partner two years after we split. It's been 8 years and I only can think of dating now. I cannot imagine what losing someone to death rather than divorce would feel like. My sympathies.

I'm sorry, R41. That sounds so awful, but at least you made it through. I hope you're doing okay now.

The first wife is lucky she didn't get shot!

Straight people do this regularly. It makes me think they like being married and don't really care to whom they are married.

Since there are so damn many of them, they are able to pull it off. It is much harder for a gay person to do. There are so comparatively few of us. You lose a good partner to death, you may be on your own for a good long time.

R13 I have heard this about happily married straight men; it is because they identify with marriage being happy, they miss the companionship and are lonely and also vulnerable. I have heard straight women I work with joke about anyone who wants to get married should hook up with a widower who was happily married because they are easy to manipulate and fall in love again easily.

This is simply horribly disrespectful to the poor dead wife. Whatever happened to an appropriate period of mourning before resuming your life? And yes there is an appropriate length of time to grieve. It's 3 years. But in this disposable culture, loss of life means very little. Narcissism has run amok.

Three years? Why not five?

Five years would be self-indulgent.

[quote]Psychologists have observed that men who really love their wives tend to remarry quickly after they die. It's counterintuitive, but it's a thing.

Yes, I have heard/read this more than a few times. The majority of (I assume) straight men remarry within one year of their divorce or their SO's death. Women DO NOTrmarry in such a short time. In fact, many choose to remain single.

I absolutely do not believe Patton Oswald killed his wife and I believe he truly loved her. Who knows what their marriage was like. He remarried because he likes being married and did not want to be alone.

When the first wife died, was her throat slit open? Asking for a friend.

1 1/2 years isn't that shameful for a man (or woman) to move on with another mate after the death of a spouse. A year of mourning, a 6 month romance and marriage proposal. What's the big deal?

[quote]Also what [R22] said — many straight men don't know how to care and fend for themselves. Emotionally as well as "who will do the shopping and help raise the kid."

Yeah, especially older men, their wives spoiled them rotten back in the day. Whereas I think a lot of old ladies are like yeah, I'll miss him but it's nice to be single.

I guess bittersweet would describe the engagement.

When I first saw his fiance's picture I thought it was his wife. Meredith and dead spouse look a lot alike.

Yes, this all seems very fast. Not even 1 1/4 years. More like 14 or 15 months since his wife died. Weird.

"He's not the least bit hot so we'll accept that he's hetero"

--The DL

A DL thread judging Patton Oswalt and how fast he moved on with his life. One of the saddest things I've seen today.

I feel like he was a bad influence on his first wife's drug problem. And it's a little odd how much this woman resembles the first wife.

So? Maybe if you tell me how this affects you personally I won't think you're a twat.

[quote]This is simply horribly disrespectful to the poor dead wife. Whatever happened to an appropriate period of mourning before resuming your life?

She's dead. It's probably not going to affect her much.

Twat.

r60 you're on a gay gossip site, dumb twat.

All this energy revolving around Patton Oswalt, even on a gay gossip site. Pathetic.

[quote]you're on a gay gossip site, dumb twat.

And you're posting as if you have a personal stake in this, twat.

r64 no, I'm posting like I'm on a gossip site--gossiping.

Seriously you're too stupid to be here. Which is saying a lot.

"...not really good for the deceased wife..."

She'll get over it.

So a few gay bitches feel like unloading on a straight, not terribly attractive (read dumpy) but fairly successful straight actor for moving on with his life. Is that about right?

I hope they're happy together, by all accounts they're both very nice people.

[quote]Hate the Trumptards but this was the best Reddit burn of 2016.

No it wasn't, it was really disgusting. I'm all for gallows humor, but I hope that guy's family ends up under a tractor trailer and someone can say something like that to him. What a douchebag.

It doesn't have the best optics, but they're just engaged - not married. He seems like a solid guy - who knows what the reasons are.

He may been rebounding - he may want to have another child - he may want to have a mother for his daughter. They may be good for each other.

Now - she may have latched on to him for different reasons too. There are many women who jump in after a man's divorce or wife's death - many of them. Particularly if they're stable / well-off. It's an opportunity and some woman is going to try and jump in.

At the end of the day, none of my business. I wish them well.

Good for them I guess. But I find him obnoxious and thought it was somehow unseemly the way he was so publicly braying about his grief.

Patton's first wife reminded me of "Aunt Diane" from the HBO documentary. This remarriage is too soon and a bit creepy.

Get a calculator, r52. She died 14 months ago.

Wonder who the Patton Oswald stans are? We've had far meaner threads -- hell, the Morrissey thread earlier today was vile -- but this is the one that upsets them. Odd.

Does the daughter look like Oswald?

His fiancee hasn't gotten work in years, she was smart to latch onto him.

[quote]Waaaaay too many straight guys remarry far too soon

a straight man is only heterosexual when there's a woman orbiting around them. Without a woman, they're basically asexual

Worked with him briefly on a show last fall. Very humble, team player, good guy. Didn't really get to know him but I hope this works out for him.

So what was the real story about that revival of Lips Together, Teeth Apart that never opened after Megan Mullally refused to work further with Oswalt after several weeks of rehearsal and left the show? Was it her? Was it him?

Mullaly isn't a diva when it comes to work, so my guess is it was him.

Speaking of, you were probably already thinking about the old BWW thread about Lips Together, but just in case here it is. Looks like Oswalt quit his TV show abruptly about the same time as the Lips Together incident.

His fiancee has been making her money going to conventions and living off her fame from the early 90's. Now she is back in the spotlight by being with him.

Danny and Spence will have to fit another bed in their room, I guess...

This nasty, gnarly little troll gets married, has her die on him, then gets remarried not long after. Yet most DLers are stuck flyin solo with their fingers up their asses. Not fair!

[quote] Good for them I guess. But I find him obnoxious and thought it was somehow unseemly the way he was so publicly braying about his grief.

I'm a big fan of his standup but I admit I feel weird about this. He was just making the talk show rounds a few weeks ago promoting his comedy special about his grief over his wife's death. I guess I'd feel different if they had just announced they were dating but engaged seems inappropriate somehow. But none of my business and good luck to them.

[quote]Waaaaay too many straight guys remarry far too soon. Here's hoping he's been in therapy and has taken the time to grieve.

Yes, it seems to me that a lot of the straight widowers actually duck a real grieving process by hooking up with another wife quickly.

I have an acquaintance, whose wife of over 20 years died very suddenly. They had a teenage son in his first year of college. The couple adored each other and it was a genuinely happy marriage - his family was dysfunctional as fuck, so he really poured a lot of effort into his marriage and valued the family he'd built. He was in a highly-paid job and they were living the good life. His initial grief was so profound that many of us really feared suicide was a possibility. But, after about three months, he was out looking for pussy. At around six months, he met the woman he married about six months later. He moved her into his house while his late wife's things were still in the closet. His son, who'd been very close with his mom, did not react well, as you can imagine. Dad may have been over Mom, but the kid sure wasn't. That's what seems to get lost in these stories - I hope Oswalt's daughter is okay.

Kid ended up with a serious drug problem, and fucked up everything, after having been on the winner track all his life. At age 30, he has kids of his own now, and works a menial job. Doesn't talk to his dad much anymore.

I do not understand why he has to constantly announce his every move concerning his personal life. He is not Leonardo De Caprio or Ben Affleck or some other cunt . Seems thirsty as fuck. Congratulations, good for him , still think it is too soon but whatever.

He killed her.

I am supremely offended by this man's behavior. It's unseemly.

[quote]Seriously you're too stupid to be here. Which is saying a lot.

R65 being the resident expert on stupidity.

Is he a drug addict like his wife was or was he only her enabler ?

I'm assuming the "investigate her death!" trolls are the same people posting well-known acts to the "obscure bands" thread.

WTF!!!???

R93 just realized that Patton Oswalt is getting laid, while she flicks her bean alone.

Didn't Paul McCartney remarry in two seconds and take a lot of shit after Linda died?

He's done milking his druggie ex's memory, so time to move on.

It's interesting but I found windowed men tend to jump into another marriage a lot of faster than widowed women. I think men are more dependent on their wives than wives on their husbands. After my sister-in-law died of cancer, my brother remarried with in 18 months of her death largely because he couldn't handle being alone and raising two kids.

I'm so sorry to hear that R28. It must have been a living hell.

I'm so sorry, R41.

How dare you guys judge him! We widowers are insane with grief and need to take comfort where we can.

I'm not surprised. He's a comedian (not really a funny one) and comedians are CRAZY. I remember when Paul McCartney latched on to that sociopath second wife of his...I felt so sorry for him. Some men just CAN'T be alone. I had a neighbor (from mainland China) and he watched his poor wife either away. I knew she died because the grief in his eyes was strong. Half a year later his son told me he went back to mainland China....and got some woman pregnant. His son was pissed as his mother just passed. The way I figure it is that his sons are adults (the eldest moved away) and once the youngest leaves....he will be alone. The pieces of his wife will no longer be under his roof. It's easy to judge (i can be judgmental, a trait I'm working on lol) but some men just CAN'T be alone. Plus Paton is a comedian and his work takes him everywhere...I doubt if he'd get much acting work....he looks like a man boy turd baby. Sorry...I did say I was working on that judgemental side.

R101 here it should read wither....not either. Sorry I'm on a cell and auto correct is a bitch. I realize it's no excuse but I ask for your forgiveness. 😥😢😭

Wow, they're even older than I am.

Was she the poor (wo)man's Daphne Zuniga?

No R104, Meredith was a fairly successful child/teen actress who unfortunately found her roles drying up when she stopped being a cute little pixie girl.

I know there is lid for every pot but geeesh! I would rather remain single that do it with someone that looked like that maybe he is a phenom in the sack.

He really is hard on the eyes.

r83 I just saw the one where they go to their reunion and the lesbian hits on Spence and he thinks he's brought her back to the other team and Danny says, "Or she thinks you're a woman, with your faux hawk and your leather jacket, you got a little KD Lang thing going..." God, those two were great, it was weird to find out how he is in real life.

He looks miserable in the picture, so why did he impulsive propose to this attention seeking d list actress. She seem more into the idea of been married to him. They don't look in love.

He should have waited two years, then the press gives you a pass on the remarriage... even if you were fucking the new wife when the old one was clinging to her deathbed.

How is he in real life r108?

Seems like it could be a marriage of convenience - publicity to restart her career, new material for him, a new mommy for his daughter. Good luck is all I can say.

r111 Oh just that he seems angry and was married to a huge junkie, he seems fucking emo and not fun.

Well, if I looked like him and had a junkie wife I'd be angry too. I mean, even one of those is enough to make a guy salty. Both is just life fucking with you.

I haven't seen her in anything post-Journey Of Natty Gann, which I loved to death as a kid, saw it in the theater, rented on VHS, etc.

I didn't realize it at the time, but how fuckin HOT is the dad in that movie??!

Anyway, back to Natty. She actually worked after that movie? I had no idea. I'm actually stunned to see her name in the news again (if you wanna call this 'news').

Meredith is tweeting and retweeting any congratulations from a celebrity, she is milking this thing.

By the way, if you ever wondered whether Rotten Tomatoes was bullshit or a reliable source of aggregate movie reviews, you should know that The Journey Of Natty Gann currently enjoys a 100% approval rating on that site.

There is no way in hell that movie received universal acclaim, then or now.

This will not end well.

Do the dead wife's fans have any theories about Patton killing her? She had a pretty big following of the kind of serial killer obsessives that populate WebSleuths.

Who does he think he is, William Shatner ?

McCartney remarried over 4 years after Linda's death. It was definitely way too soon -- reports said that he was still wearing Linda's ring until the day of the wedding -- but as he said at some point, he lost his mom and got John, he lost John and got Linda, he lost Linda and got Heather Mills...he seemed to think the universe had offered him a way to move past his losses by embracing new people. Too bad he didn't get that Mills was just a garden variety narcissistic sociopath, not a choice for his next life partner until after he married and impregnated her.

Defense

Really r122? Someone wrote an article defending him? Like anyone gives a shit, they're just pissed this troll is marrying two times when his face marks him as a lifelong virgin. I'm not gonna read that, did you? And why is this widow supremely qualified to defend him anyhow?

[quote]they're just pissed this troll is marrying two times when his face marks him as a lifelong virgin.

We can't all be DataLoungers.

I read the blog at 122 and I commend her for her defense of Oswald but I think she is maybe up on her grief high horse.

She assumes all those that have a problem with the timing or lack of timing with this engagement are people who are coming from a place of happily sitting next to their own loved ones passing judgement on a situation they know nothing about. Really? She assumes none of those people have experienced grief from the loss of a partner. Personally I have only experienced the ending of relationships. The grief I have experienced was losing a brother to suicide but that experience did teach me how deep grief can go and how long it can sometimes last. Not the same as a spouse dying, but I learned grief is a monster.

Those that can't imagine moving on so quickly aren't wrong. Those that can imagine moving on quickly aren't wrong. It's just one of those things that is a shared yet individual experience.

The best thing is to hope that those who do move on quickly are healthy and will be respectful those of us who can't move on so fast.

Did someone mention me?

read this and get some brains

thank you

I don't trust his fiancee, she comes off as a fame ho after I read her Twitter.

give them both a break ok? they are Obviously at that "Can't get enough of each other" phase...we all know what phases come next so let me have at it while they are lovestruck!

Enter at your own risk, Meredith!

I was pissed when Paul married that slag Heather so soon after Linda died.

paul and linda.... he lost it when she died.

.patton and his 1st wife couldn't touch them in any way.

and yes, paul was brain dead to get involved with that one legged gold digger. he paid out of the for that one.

yet he still has enough money for 500 lifetimes.

[quote]give them both a break ok?

This is a gossip site. If you don't like it, leave.

Patton looks like one of those pain pill-addicted older women who wears sensible SAS shoes and a colorful-but-stained shirt and shortish grey bed-head/recliner hair. A manwoman trapped in her "pain-body" who doesn't have the energy to give a shit.

Sara Gilbert said today that the couple met 13 months after the death of Patton's wife, though they had many mutual connections. That means they barely know each other. Why not just date for a while? Why the rush to marry? It does seem a little codependent-enabler-y of her, though I can understand why HE would seek out that security.

She's drawn to rebuilding this family, but she has her work cut out for her.

R133 if you don't like my comment YOU Leave. bitch. just because this is a "gossip" site doesn't mean empathy is not allowed. ya pant load.

your favorite couple

who ARE these people?

Love Oswalt's twitter feed. He's politically progressive.

*Oswald's

[quote] Love Oswalt's twitter feed. He's politically progressive.

His brother is good too. @MattOswaltVA

God I am so sick of seeing people on my Twitter feed jabber about this guy being such, like, a victim, you guys.

He's always such a victim, he acts victimized on every single damn issue he talks about, but excuse me for not feeling sorry for yet another marginally talented straight white guy who is far more successful than he has any right to be.

And I know I've told this story before but I finally gave up on Oswalt years ago when he sicced his fans on some guy on Twitter who wasn't even rude, just asked a question about copyright IIRC -- it was during Oswalt's "I'm a victim because rude people record me on their phones" deal.

The guy he went after had like 100 followers and was about as mild mannered as could be. Not a troll at all. Total dick move.

[quote]Sara Gilbert said today that the couple met 13 months after the death of Patton's wife

That means they met about 6 weeks ago, and that when he started taking Salenger to premieres with him in early June, they'd just met. Weird.

𝐒𝐨 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 (𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐲) 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭?

Are you new here? Because that is far from right. It's fairly obvious the disapproval is coming from straight women--women who obviously have a lot of trouble believing their loved ones can move on after they've died.

As a gay man who came of age at the beginning of the AIDS era (which makes me a fairly typical gay male Datalounger), I've seen and personally experienced a lot of grief. I don't judge Oswalt one bit for this--whatever other faults he may have. I've dealt too often with grief Nazis who judge others because they don't "grieve appropriately."

Fuck that.

They have never had this much attention before, you know his fiancee is loving it because her "career" was dead in the water.

She got the crazy eye.

He's out of shape and tired and wanted to lock this thing down so he doesn't have to keep looking and she has given up.

[quote] Love Oswalt's twitter feed. He's politically progressive.

How [italic]yawn[/italic] unique.

r148 is the last remaining Joanie Loves Chachi fan.

I can't imagine what sort of horrorshow alternative option I would reject in favor of having sex with that smushed gassy troll.

apple cider vinegar

Thanks r148! 😘👍🏼

Bump. Did these two have a little twitter fight?

The killer she was investigating must be so relieved. Supposedly Patten wanted to finish her novel. Doubt it. She was obsessed with others, not him.

Michelle had the insight to figure the killer had lived/worked on a ranch because of his knots and taking of pennies for horse water trough. What she didn't do was link that the owner doing construction on those neighborhoods owned a horse ranch. Had sons. One who looks like the crime artist drawing or the guy who made the Titanic movie. Go read up on it.

There were some sharp DL sleuths in the original thread who immediately suspected something was fishy about the overdose.

R153 Quite the testy Twitter tangle! Some of it was almost funny!

r156 Dish! I don't have twitter, was he flirting with someone else? Ugh.

Here are the highlights!

Salenger responded with a pounce.

“We haven’t fought yet. and also… we aren’t married yet! So… no sex! Cuz that is sacrilege. @pattonoswalt is very very proper.”

P.R. stunt.

WTF is R154 on about? The reference seems to be to Michelle McNamara's unfinished book on the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker (EAR/ONS) serial killer, who has never been caught despite abundant evidence, including DNA. But McNamara was writing a true crime book, not a "novel."

R154 is also making insinuations about knowing the identity EAR/ONS is. It's probably trolling, but on the off-chance it's genuine, tell us more!

Work those clues. His initials are S.B.

R154/162, how do you know this? Have you investigated the case yourself? Have you gotten that info from someone who has? Do you have a personal connection to EAR/ONS?

The link to McNamara's excellent article about the case is below for anyone who wants to learn more.

I enjoy Patton's comedy and she seems pleasant enough, but they're already approaching Chrissy Teigen/John Legend levels of annoying.

Wow, [R163], I'll definitely be reading that article; I live in SoCal and have never heard anything about that case!😮

We attract a troll who claims to know who EAR/ONS is. She doesn't.

Chrissy Teigen at least is witty and beautiful, and John Legend is talented.

BUMP!!!!

Natty Gann is getting married?!?😮

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Should Meredith be worried about the dead wife? Are they going to be living together in the same house Patton shared with her?!😬

I bet Natty Gann and Patton conspired to kill the dead wife.

HE KILLED HER.

They have lovely astrological synastry at least. Venus-sun and a saturn to sun square should bind them together for the long haul. Very nice, although the timing is a bit soon.

Am hopeful that they will buy a new home together and not live in the same house he lived in with his late wife. Not healthy for any of them.

R167 You must be kidding about Chrissy Tiegen being witty and beautiful. She is an annoying and over exposed mouth breather. John Legends talent is debatable as far as I am concerned.

A NEW STRAIN OF GONORRHEA IS ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANT

It will be "The Rebecca Syndrome "

Does anybody here know how big Patton's penis is?

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Huge congrats to @pattonoswalt & @MeredthSalenger! Do you have a venue picked out? We're happy to accommodate for a small donation ($93,827)

You made me LOL, [R177]!😂

Seriously, how BIG is Patton's package?

Hard to judge, R181. You should tweet him re: his meat.

God, no, please don't. He's so thirsty lately he'd probably tweet a dick pic.

I think that they're doing 'no sex before marriage' is very weird.

He's short and stubby. His hands and fingers are short and stubby. Everything about him is short and stubby.

You figure it out.

r184 They are? And you think it's weird? You can't imagine whose idea it was? Shit, she's good, like Mohammed on 90 Day Fiance who made it a point to never have to touch the pig he married by claiming religious reasons.

More Patton gossip!!

I thought that "waiting till marriage" thing was Meredith being cheeky on Twitter during their "social media fight" and not meant to be taken seriously?

BUMP! Is his dead wife's (unfinished) book still getting published?

She is Queen of the humble brag, just saw a Tweet she made of somebody complimenting her on her boobs in the 80's.

Michelle's book will be out in February. We have a thread about it.

R2, he might as well have some company while he's devastated and unable to recover.

When we're pattin' Patton's penis

What a chemistry's between us!

Is it mighty oak

Or an acorn joke?

Well, at least it's sure obscenous!

i likes him on the flavor flav roast: Tiny little pimp in a thimble.. smacking his bitches with a daffodil stem

He is slated to do a remake of Tom Thumb for Dream Works.

He's on Seth Meyers talking about his grieving his wife but doesn't mention the fiancee

Meredith is desperately hanging on to some kind of fame and he is her foothold, you can't tell me she is really into that little troll.

R195, ah, the old Grief Circuit. Joan Rivers did a Crying Tour when she lost EDGAH.

Funny, smart and by all accounts a good guy. What could she possibly see in him? You guys are all ass holes

I find him horribly unattractive but women are like that, they really will fall in love with someone less than attractive.

R68 no they are not "nice people" they may pretend to be nice when out in public, or when being total narcissists/famewhores but in reality they are your typical celebrities who crave fame, power, $$$, and above all attention.

Michelle Mcnamara was an amateur and just hoped to get "famous" by writing about EAR/ONS and rebranding him GSK. I feel bad that she was never able to escape her drug addictions, and was unfortunately married to your typical Hollywood narcissist-but she was also a huge narcissist as well.

How do you think she got those drugs? Sure some were legally prescribed via doctor shopping as this is what addicts do, but there's no way she was actually prescribed fentanyl, and she or her addict husband probably bought this online or got it from a drug dealer, and she was stupid enough to think she could fuck with a dangerous opiate like fent and take benzos and would be fine when that's how a lot of people have died. I know people who have been addicted to opiates for decades who will not touch or use fent at all, as it's that easy to overdose on even for people like them who are addicts who have a high tolerance to opiates.

Michelle McNamarra and her husband are fame whores, narcissists, and drug addicts. But people like this are way too common in and around Los Angeles, but it's been this way for decades.

Just look at how quickly her former husband remarried after she overdosed. Their "marriage" was your typical Hollywood one and probably one of convenience for both. They only stayed together because they were co-dependent addicts, and because had they gotten divorced they would have stabbed each other in the back in a messy divorce.

Michelle Mcnamara was an amateur and just hoped to get "famous" by writing about EAR/ONS and rebranding him GSK. I feel bad that she was never able to escape her drug addictions, and was unfortunately married to your typical Hollywood narcissist-but she was also a huge narcissist as well.

How do you think she got those drugs? Sure some were legally prescribed via doctor shopping as this is what addicts do, but there's no way she was actually prescribed fentanyl, and she or her addict husband probably bought this online or got it from a drug dealer, and she was stupid enough to think she could fuck with a dangerous opiate like fent and take benzos and would be fine when that's how a lot of people have died. I know people who have been addicted to opiates for decades who will not touch or use fent at all, as it's that easy to overdose on even for people like them who are addicts who have a high tolerance to opiates.

Michelle McNamarra and her husband are fame whores, narcissists, and drug addicts. But people like this are way too common in and around Los Angeles, but it's been this way for decades.

Just look at how quickly her former husband remarried after she overdosed. Their "marriage" was your typical Hollywood one and probably one of convenience for both. They only stayed together because they were co-dependent addicts, and because had they gotten divorced they would have stabbed each other in the back in a messy divorce.

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R202 You're a moron.

FF any person in this thread who suggests that Patton killed his wife.

In fact, now they they're red tagging, please deleted this thread. It's filled with wacko Pizza gate Trump scumbag supporters.

Pieces of shit.

R204 DL makes fun of everyone.

R205 fuck off. DL does not say that everyone murdered their wife.

R206 Who is saying Patton murdered his wife? The post you took issue with doesn't.

As long as it’s here, I’ll comment. I heard him interviewed on NPR not that long ago, but after I read through this thread. It influenced me, because I couldn’t help but feel that he was secretly tickled by all the attention and the extremeness of his situation. He does this folksy kind of humble patter, but it’s actually self-aggrandziing.

It’s possible that Oswalt and Salenger really do love each other, but I got weird vibes from their relationship and what he said about it. He’s in no psychological shape to rush into marriage.

I feel immeasurably sad for his daughter. Imagine the tailspin she’s in. He said she’s completely okay with the new relationship. Having been somewhat in her shoes, I doubt it. She’s trying to keep the approval and love of the one parent she has left while he’s off doing press tours about her dead junkie mother and his superlative new love. What’s the poor kid supposed to do?

I know we throw the word around a lot here, but is he a narcissist?

And look at that body language; she’s hanging on to him for dear life. (Is he that much of a catch? Does he have money? Or just some clout in the comedy world?)

My friend's mom died of cancer when we were kids, and apparently she gave her husband her blessing to marry one of her close friends. She knew the family and was close with the kids. I always thought it was fucking weird, but it worked.

Not getting a lot of the Patton and Michele hate here.

I do not want anyone “red tagged” as I do think that DLers (on the whole) are witty and intelligent enough to “self police” and call out assholes and trolls without the help of censorship....

So, I’ll just say that I personally have never heard any negative gossip about Patton or his wife and think it’s unkind to refer to her as a “druggie”.

Everyone has issues and I think her true crime work and writing is very interesting and I want to read the book she was working on when she died.

The Meredith Salinger engagement was very fast, but I think that mostly has to do with straight guys (especially straight guys with kids) not being able to be alone *at all* and having almost no adult life skills—rather than something that casts any shade on the dead wife or their marriage...

R204 he may not have killed his wife but he knew fully well all the drugs she was taking-probably took them himself-and everyone knows that fentanyl is extremely dangerous to use, and that combining an opiate with a benzo will kill you.

Michelle's book is not that well researched or written.

If you are familiar with the east area rapist/original night stalker, there's nothing new that you do not already know in the book.

Michelle also went on and on and on about herself more than about EAR/ONS.

Survivors and relatives of victims of EAR/ONS REALLY do not like Michelle or the other victims' family members who make gofundme pages for people to give them a free vacation to travel to true crime conventions, or because life is soooooo difficult decades later after the murders/rapes.

This is off-prompt, but the East Area Rapist or Original Night Stalker was one *sick* bastard, wasn't he? Only the "Toybox Killer" churned my stomach more -and that full color police sketch of EAR/ONS with those angry blue eyes -and snarling teeth in a black ski cap are the stuff of screaming nightmares.

As far as Patton O? I sure as hell hope he didn't have anything to do with his wife's overdose ... his public outrage after her death might have been guilt for not getting her the help she needed -or his ignorance of the dangerous medication combos she was taking -or maybe he believed she took her own life and was resentful of her carelessness? He doesn't seem too preoccupied about the opinions of others -and yet goes out of his way for approval in his over-explanations. If this relationship with Michelle is legit, then I'm happy for him ...and here's hoping she'll be a loving stepmom to his child, I guess?

Not that this means anything -but Michelle has a kind face. She always looked like the type of person who would help out if you stopped her and asked for directions. (Patton doesn't have that type of face) Know what I mean?

It does make you wonder why she married him R214, there's no way Michelle and his new wife-who looks exactly like Michelle, are actually attracted to him. I wonder if he's gay and the women were set up with him to hide this?

Calm down r204

[quote]It does make you wonder why she married him [R214], there's no way Michelle and his new wife-who looks exactly like Michelle, are actually attracted to him. I wonder if he's gay and the women were set up with him to hide this?

Honestly, your theory sounds like a bigger stretch to me than Michelle/Meredith being attracted to Patton, a successful, wealthy, funny guy.

Meredith is enjoying the fame she gets from being with him. Her career died 25 years ago, now she is attending movie premieres and is backstage at tv shows and award shows.

R202 sounds like Oswalt's mistress during the marriage who was initially gleeful about Michelle's death certain that it would cement her place in Patton's heart forever, only to be rejected in favor of Salenger.

In La La Land Meredith is flabby and over the hill, at her age her best bet was cling to somebody with some fame and only a little troll looking guy like Patton was going to give her the time of day.

r220 continued... what I mean is that at her age in the entertainment community she would have a hard time finding a celebrity that would marry her and settle down. Patton was an easy mark. I hope for his daughter's sake that she will be good to her.

I feel bad for Patton's daughter since she had two drug addicted narcissists as parents.

My crazy narcissistic mom met her current husband at his wife's funeral. I swear they were both cruising the place.