Patton Oswalt is one of the funniest comics working today. This is the opening joke from his 2006 CD, Werewolves and Lollipops. A lot of comics could have–and did, I’m sure–come up with this premise, but only Oswalt could have come up with the phrase “failure pile in a sadness bowl.”

Bonus P.O. goodness! The Sound of Young America points us to Patton’s blog, where he ruminates on the end of his day job as Spence on The King of Queens.