Ms. Pat Is the Hardest Working Woman in Comedy

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InsideHook

By Nadja Sayej “I’m on the phone. Turn the TV off!” Ms. Pat, aka Patricia Williams, is trying to do an interview with me over the phone. The Atlanta-born comedian is up early on a Saturday morning — the only day she has off from shooting the second season of her TV series, The Ms. Pat Show. On the phone, Ms. Pat is not unlike who she is onstage: brash, honest, relaxed and able to turn her own personal history into a punchline. She’s one of the most relatable women comedians out there today, something like an uncensored mom version of Richard Pyor for Generation X. Beside her is her husband, wh…