A Field Guide to Ms. Pat

Ms. Pat is one of my damn favorite women of comedy at present.  She really knows how to make people laugh and all of her stories come from a place of truth and when a woman can turn having a nipple shot off into a funny story, well, you know she is one gifted chick.  

Born to a single mother of five children living on government welfare assistance in a poor, tough neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, Ms. Pat saw how hard the world could be and somehow managed to keep all of the stories she saw around her and turns them into comedic gold. Her grandfather ran a “bootleg” house where Pat learned the family business of rolling all of the cash and valuables out of her grandfather's drunk and unconscious patrons.

She gave birth to her first child at the age of fourteen and then had her second child at the age of fifteen. She became a teenage mom/drug dealer known by the street name “Rabbit”. She hustled drugs through her teen years out of her Cadillac bought with her drug proceeds until she met a military veteran/new boyfriend who helped her stop her criminal enterprise and head another way with her life and her young family.  At the age of nineteen with her husband in her life, she was given custody of four more young children who belonged to her drug addicted sister.  That was a damn hard road she was given to walk on, right.  She spent the next ten years of her life caring for those children and receiving welfare, food stamps and government housing to help her care for those children.  It was during all of that time fighting with government services to get all of what she could get to help her family survive without being criminal that she was told that she had a gift for telling funny stories and just being funny, overall.

In 2003, her welfare case worker encouraged her to try an Atlanta bar's comedy open mic night and she did.  From there, her comedy career bloomed and you can tell that this buxom, strong woman tells the stories and the truths of her life with ease and hilarity.  I fucking love how real and honest she is in her work.

She has appeared on TV Guide Network’s women's comedy show  “Standup in Stilettos”, and on the Nickelodeon's network's “Nickmom’s Night Out”.  She has appeared on BET's "Comicview" multiple times and makes appearances on a ton of different podcasts. hosted by comedians from Marc Maron to Joe Ragan to   This year, she appeared on Comedy Central’s “This is Not Happening”--a truly excellent show hosted by Ari Shaffir that is all comedians telling long stories----and she will be featured on NBC's "Last Comic Standing" starting on July 22nd.  

Pat also tours all over the country and she will happily keep you up to date on all of her doings on her Twitter and Instagram accounts.  

In April of next year, Pat has a book coming out through Harper Collins.  It is a called "Rabbit: A Memoir" and it should most definitely be filled with more stories of her life-saving big tits and her criminal enterprises that helped her survive to care for her family.  This is a woman who kept the crack, the Pampers and the pistol all handy in her tough as nails, unforgiving life in the prettiest Cadillac you ever saw.  She stashes her chewing gum in her bra when it's time to give a television interview and she readily puts all of herself on stage every time she performs.  That is a rare, interesting thing to do and her stories are some heartbreaking American-exclusive shit that should be told and told loudly so that we all can better know ourselves.  

I am really hopeful that Pat strikes it big on "Last Comic Standing".  More people need to hear this woman and be aware of all of the kinds of lives that Americans lead.  They are not all pretty and sanitized and perfumed by Victoria's Secret.  

"You don't realize how dark it was until you make it out the other side and you say 'holy crap, how did I make it through that mess?'", Pat said in a TV interview about her distinct comedy.  I am really grateful that she did and I am hopeful that her fan base will grow and more people will learn from her stories from places where the American dream has failed people.  She encourages everyone in her audience to do what it takes to make their situations better and be kinder to one another and how the fuck can anyone have a problem with that?  

Check out this curvy, funny MILF's work and be ready to laugh at some of the saddest stuff you have ever heard.