What Patton Oswalt Watches (and Listens to) With His Daughter

A 16-year-old daughter searched online for her father’s name and discovered him listed in the Epstein files. The father reacted by clarifying that the person involved was Jeffrey Epstein and by noting the context of a movie screening tied to his work. He described the discovery as a mix of shock and dark humor, including a remark from his daughter that reframed his own worst-night claim. He also shared how he and his daughter watch films together, including showing her the 1978 Halloween and finding her reaction unexpectedly funny rather than frightened. He takes her to theaters in Los Angeles to encourage shared audience experiences, including watching Alien and Aliens together.

"Apparently I'm in the files because Jeffrey - wait, why am I calling him Jeffrey? That scumbag was setting up a screening of a movie I'm in called Young Adult. I guess he and his creep friends were all excited because it's called Young Adult, but actually it only stars adults and the only nude person in the whole movie is me."

"I was kind of laughing when Alice told me. I was like, 'Wow, I gave him the worst night of his life,' but then she came back with 'Second worst.' Not that Oswalt's any stranger to his daughter's sick burns. In his new special, Tea & Scotch (which hits YouTube June 9), he tells the story of reluctantly deciding to show Alice the original 1978 version of Halloween."

"I was all, like, 'Oh, get ready because this movie really messed me up as a kid,' But then we watched it together and she thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen. She was so aggressively not frightened by it that it was almost amazing. Here are a few more things the Oswalts watch, read, and listen to together."

"I've been taking her to the New Beverly Cinema in L.A. in an attempt to foster the moviegoing experience for the next generation. Like, you go to a theater, you buy a ticket, you react to things with an audience. I took her to go see the original Alien at the New Beverly and then we saw the sequel, Aliens. I wanted her to know, like, 'This is how you take a story and you expand on it to make it even cooler.'"

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