Oh by the way, which one’s Pat? (CREDIT: Tribeca/Giant Pictures/Screenshot)

Starring: Various Trans/Nonbinary/Queer Comedians, Julia Sweeney

Director: Rowan Haber

Running Time: 92 Minutes

Rating: Unrated

Is it still time for androgyny? Was it ever? That’s an especially tricky matter when considering Pat O’Neal Riley, Julia Sweeney’s signature SNL character of indeterminate gender. Pat has left quite the (mostly positive) impression on filmmaker Rowan Haber, but they’ve recognized that the character’s legacy is at best complicated for people who are nonbinary and/or trans or otherwise not fitting easily within a gender binary.

So now Haber’s documentary We Are Pat assembles a group of queer comedians (along with Sweeney herself) to try to figure out if Pat can have a worthwhile place in the comedy world in the 2020s. Is that question satisfactorily answered in the doc? Not exactly, but that ambiguity is probably the best we could have hoped for. If Pat means anything to you in any sort of way, then We Are Pat almost certainly has a message you’ll appreciate hearing.

Grade: 177 Pats out of 227 Even More Pats