With a name like that, you’d expect Patton Oswalt to be ordering US army tank divisions across the Rhine, or at the very least directing zero-budget mumblecore features for the super-hip market – but no, Oswalt is in fact an amazingly hardworking comic who has been in scores of films and TV shows since the early 1990s, as well asmaking a bunch of HBO and Netflix comedy specials – very popular and very funny.

You’d certainly recognise him if you saw him: from his first walk-on TV part as a video store clerk in an episode of Seinfeld, Oswalt has appeared on nearly every comedy show from Flight of the Conchords to Futurama, Bob’s Burgers to Parks and Recreation. He played comic book nerd Spence in The King of Queens, Agent Koenig (and his brothers) in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and serial sex harasser Teddy Sykes in Veep.