Penn Epner

Penn Epner runs a true-crime podcast out of Neptune, chronicling the town's seedier history with the breathless enthusiasm of a superfan who has found his true calling. He inserts himself into Veronica's orbit eagerly, treating her cases as material, trading gossip and theories, always a little too pleased with his own cleverness and access.

Patton Oswalt plays him as a genial motormouth, the kind of guy whose eagerness to help feels like fandom bleeding into real life, and that specific chattiness is what makes him fun to watch scene to scene rather than a generic informant. He's funny before he's anything else, which is exactly the point.