"RE-RELEASE: Nate Bargatze"

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Okay, no judgment, that's fine. And, and I scream. Do you guys even serve, you know what? Do you mind if we just do this after? Welcome, it's an all-new smart list.

(upbeat music) - We were just talking about Shawshank and I was gonna say to Will, Jay Beturi, came on, that my philosophy and life is kind of-- - Oh, this is good, hang on.

- No, this is good, this is good, you like everybody pull over and get out the pen. By the way, this is Shawshank redemption. - Shawshank redemption, I think. - Shawshank redemption, Tracy, so the movie.

So the whole movie, Morgan Freeman, is talking about, you know, he's goes in front of them, though, what did they call the panel, or whatever the people who were trying to board? Yeah, they were open, yeah, and he's the pro board,

and he's like, he tells them what they think they wanna hear. He's like, no, I've been reformed, I'm good.

I've learned my lesson, and they always deny

his role, and then at the end of the movie, finally, just is like, you know what, fuck it. This is who I am, you people are crazy, I didn't learn anything, blah, blah, blah, and then that's when he gets released.

- That's it, that's my philosophy.

“- And that's what full release comes from honesty.”

- Well, two ways, sorry. - So everybody go ahead and put your car back and drive, and concept paper either out the window, if you still have an ash tray in the car, use that, 'cause we really didn't get an end

to it, but it's nice that it's showing up. - No, that's what we all like, we get like, you know, don't try to be something you're not. - Yeah, exactly. - Right, I agree with you.

Authenticity is the theme of the theme of the thing. - Oh, very good, it's a great evergreen. - Authenticity. - Hey Jason, yeah, hi. Why did the man fall down the well?

- Who would? - Because he didn't see that well. That's exactly right. (laughing) - Wait, wait, will he?

You got, when we had Jordan Peel on his film, Nope. - Yeah.

- I always just thought it was just a fun way to say,

yep, no, I'm not comfortable with flying saucers. It says the main character. - Yeah, no, I'm not. - It freaks me out, but it's actually an acronym four. - It's an acronym, and well, he said it's an acronym.

- And I just went, and I thought about for two seconds that I went, not of planet Earth planet Earth.

“- And remember the look on his face, he was a little mad, I think?”

- Well, what it know what you were seeing was the same look at I had, which is total shock at your level of intelligence. But it's just like, that was stunning, surprise. - That's what hurt me the most with the stunning.

The stunning look on everybody's face, what I do something. - Well, we're gonna have a stunned look at your gastrony, come on. - Well, he's gonna have a stunned look at your shot.

- Oh, my shot, did you have a lunch? (laughing) - He's gonna have a stunned look at your, when he heard your joke for sure, because he tells jokes for a living show.

- Yeah, we go. - And he doesn't just tell jokes, I, man, he, this guy, tells the son of a gun. - This son of a gun, and that's kind of the language that he would use to sort of a gun.

- Dax shepherds coming back. - He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he. - Dax does love son of a gun. - He does. This guy uses, I don't know, there's something about his,

everything that he does, his delivery, his turn of phrase, that things he talks about, the way he does it. A lot of people call him the nicest guy and stand up. - I don't think of him as just the funniest dude. I've seen his such a long time.

And I remember the first time I was, I heard about him was through our old friend, Greg Garcia. - Yeah. - And Greg was like, Greg reached out to me, he's like, - Right.

- We have to have this guy on Boblon, and made some glimmer marks. He's like, you're gonna regret it, I go.

“I think he's hilarious, relax, couldn't it?”

And then, JB, you and I had the pleasure of meeting him - I'm gonna meet you. - Really, really repeat the glimmer mark, right in front of him. - We met him really briefly up at last year, up at Pebble Beach, and he's as nice as he is funny,

and it's all good for you. - I love this guy. - He's so funny, I love this guy. - I love Ray, I love that guy. - Oh, I love that guy.

- I love the Tennessee kid, I love his new special hello world on Amazon. He's about to go on tour in the new one. Guys, it's none other than the hilarious, Nate Burgatzi.

- Nate Burgatzi. - Oh no. - He went there. - I was ready for Ray. - I love Ray.

- Nate Burgatzi. - I'll get Ray. - Oh, how great. - Nate, it's good to see you again. - Good to see you, Sean.

- Hey, just a little fun note, never seen Sean Shank.

- You know, it's before your time.

- I'm 44, I should have hit pretty young. - You know what, Nate? I didn't see Sean Shank till I was 45. - Oh, I'll do it next year. - Anyway, Nate Burgatzi, too, Nate.

- This is really nice. - Great to see you again, 'cause we did meet, we did meet up at Pebble. - Yep.

“- Do you live in a nice house or a nice hotel room?”

But where are you? - In a hotel room, I'm in Syracuse. - Okay. - Working? - I get a show in Syracuse.

This is, can't make it here, can't make it anywhere, you know? - I guess what they say. - They built, what they say? - I like it. - Nate, I like that Sean Shank, you said I'm in Syracuse

and Shanko's working? - Nah. - Nah. - That's just hanging out with the orange man.

- This is the vacations I can afford Syracuse.

- You go, it's nice, we took a bus, though. - Yeah, but it's, you know, we spent on the hotel room. - Yeah, yeah, everything went to this. - Now what kind of one? - My family of 30 is right off camera.

(laughing) - They're just right there. - There is. - If y'all talked here in this, I'll kill you. - When you are traveling around, you're doing these shows.

What size is your group footprint? What's your posse size? - We have probably like 10 guys, 'cause I'll bring four openers. Actually, tonight, we got a surprise opener.

He won't be here until later. Jimmy Fallon, Fallon is coming to the show. - Oh, that's great. - He's gonna jump on the bus. - Where do I know him?

- To tell me what we would know him from? - That movie, taxi, pitch fever. - Taxi for pit. - Pitch, fever, taxi. - Can you please wait, Queen Latifa?

- Jimmy right now, by the way, he's hearing this. He's sharpening his knife hearing, I'll say this. - Well, I have to say this, we developed the show together years ago. - What? - And you are very successful then, but to see you over the years,

Latarina's like 20,000 at a clip, which is just unbelievable. And on top of this, and I'm gonna say this, and I really, and I've said it a bunch since it aired, when you're on SNL. You're a sketch, you're your George Washington sketch. - That was me.

- Just in my ear ringing. - The funniest SNL sketch I've seen in 15 years. - Oh, wow, I totally agree with that. - It is great with that. - Remarkably, you know, your TV just went on,

which tells you, I don't know, the family's board. The 30 men are getting itchy. - There's no one in there. - Just you and Jim, but I'm fine, right? - Yeah.

- You may turn it off, or doesn't matter. - No, no, let's give me something to watch. - But you have, to echo what Sean said, you have just, like, kind of, finally think, thankfully, the rest of America is just, like,

understand what an awesome hilarious dude you are. So how do you start? You're the Tennessee kid, you're from old Hickory, Tennessee. Am I right about that? - Yes.

- Old Hickory. - Old Hickory. - No, news a little bit from it. - Was it ever new Hickory? - No.

- He's got this great joke and it's new special on Amazon, primary. So some from old Hickory, it's where Andrew Jackson's from. And people were like, he wasn't a good guy and they'd go, "Well, we didn't know him that well, but we didn't know him at all."

(laughing) - But Nate, talk to me about when you were kid and stuff,

like did you always end the comedy?

“Did you watch us and now, like, what were your inspiration?”

- I was thinking, that was getting to. How did you start? - I just got the fact. It's, I grew my dad's a magician. - What?

- And does come up. - Mine too. Mine can disappear on the drop of a hat. - Sean, you are tonshelled quick. - Get out of here.

- Sorry, Nate. - Thanks, you guys. - Go in. - That'd be, I grew up around that. I mean, so that was, like, you know,

it was funny, but then also growing up around, you know, my dad being a magician. - You learn how to. - It's like, yeah, it just kind of lead you to it, I guess. - Wait, wait, so Nate, so you grew up,

your dad's an magician, he obviously loved you. Sorry, Sean. - And, I mean, to the extent that he wanted to stick around. - My friends with Sean's dad. - Yeah.

- Oh, so you know where he was. - Yeah, yeah, he's a pretty good dude. - I can't believe he did. - Yeah. I don't know the whole backstory, but I know.

I just know from what our hanging. - He's got no tread left on his tires, but he's a good guy. - Yeah. - He sexed you up, pinned to his location.

- So what was that like growing up with your dad

“being a magician, that's pretty rad, an illusionist?”

- Yeah, yeah, it was the best. - You know, I don't know if you even understood it. Like, I'm sure, I think if it's like my daughter and I'm sure your kid's like, it doesn't seem not normal, like it just fell.

Like it's like that's all I ever knew. And it wasn't told, you got older that you're like, you had to know about his dad's a magician. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - You're saying you don't know

when you're asked what your dad does. - Right. - Yeah. - So he would make a lot of people do magic, like magic shows me magic trick.

I've just seen him all too. And I'm just, I'm just not a good, I'm not a good person to perform for 'cause I'm just like,

You're like, it's always my card.

- It's always been my card. - Every time I see magic, every time I see magic, I freaking love it. And everybody listening loves it.

“I mean, how can you not love when you see a magic trick?”

I mean, a good one, a good one, yeah. - But I never think about it. I never, and I always make fun of it. When I hear about it, it's like, you hear about minds. But, you know what, you can't take your eyes off a mind,

or a magician. It's, it gets a bad rap. - You can't take your eyes off a mind. - Eyes off a mind. - Yeah, that's the quote of the day.

- Wait, so Nate, so your dad's show is gonna ask us, so your dad made a living as a magician. - He did, he was a teacher too. Like, so he did a day job, and then he would do that. And then we were always in Nashville.

And so he just always done it. And I mean, he's very successful, is very known in the magic world. - He comes with me and opens for me a lot on the road. - No way.

- We'll do these shows. And, you know, it's every little boy's dream traveled to your dad when you're 44 years old. - No. (laughing)

- You go, we got a little CPAP machine hooked up in a tour bus.

“- You got some ramps on the side of that state.”

- Yeah, yeah. - I mean, we had our bus parked out one time. And I had my, it was my dad, my mom and my aunt. And I was like, people probably go about this tour bus and they're like, it's pretty rocking in there.

And I mean, we got, it's lights off quiet. It's the roar of machines keeping everybody alive. - And the smell of linemen. (laughing) - Wait, so did you ever perform

in the magic shows with your dad? - I did some, yeah, I would help them with magic. - You ever got cut in half? - No, no, we did ever do that.

We didn't, he never did that, go that for.

It just slight hand. It's like, a lot of slight hand and he does calm it. - That's my favorite. - Yeah. - So then when you, what age were you

and you were like, actually kind of to what you're Jason, you kind of alluded to it, but did you start just like being a wise ass on the side of your dad's stage? Well, he was doing magic. Like is that how stand-up started for you?

- I think it was just being funny. We were like, I've never seen stand-up. It was just trying to, it was trying to be people like, I don't think I ever really make fun of anybody. - Right.

- But it was like, I would make fun of myself while I would just do now in my comedy show. It'd be like, you'd be doing stuff like that, making fun of you. He had, I mean, one time, I talked to us in a special, I'm one of them, but it was like, he brought the Easter Bunny home

when I was like six. He was at the, who's that I'm all doing a show? And these two bunny needed a ride home. And my dad goes, I'll give you a ride home if you swing by my house.

And so I remember the Easter Bunny, we had like, my parents have this old red, Mazda, stick shift, you know. And the Easter Bunny's head was bent to the side 'cause his head couldn't fit in the car.

- Sure. He was just, he was said like this, and then he got out and I met the Easter Bunny and then my dad.

“Joe, if he's pretty home, that's what that's.”

- So that started your, the Easter Bunny, you said, say, "Stat was the, yeah, that was the trajectory and that was true." - True. - If I could be that guy, then maybe I can make it out. - Now what was your mom's attitude on her husband's career?

- My parents have been together since 7th grade. And my mom's very funny. And but she, she worked at a bank. I mean, she's just been, I mean, it's just stuff, there's like growing up, it's buying, you know,

she has to go up my dad with like, "Guard of the store, I need you to buy 12 lemons." And he has to buy it for like his magic, our bunch of newspapers from that day. It's like a bunch of random,

and it's just normal conversations. You're just like, it's a Tuesday. You're just trying to grab some breadmilk and 30 oranges. And then you get on out of there. - And anchor shifts in six colors.

- Yeah, that shows this week. (laughing) - It's just stuff like that. - Wait, so Nate, so I want to kind of get, again, this is where the worst interviewers on the planet

we were just voted, worst-ever interviewers. - We nailed it. - Of all the time. - Yeah. But I want to go back 'cause we again,

because you play these huge arenas, and it's amazing.

I don't know if I've ever seen a comic so comfortable, you make it so intimate, even though you're playing a huge, there's something about it that makes it so personal and you're so organic. - Yeah, you draw us, and as opposed to ask.

- Every time about authenticity, you're very authentic, but that feels like that when you started, you must have started in clubs, like in smaller venues, right? Like most comics.

- Yeah, I imagine. - Oh, yeah, so I moved to Chicago first for a couple years, and then I moved to New York. And I was in New York for the most, for like eight and a half years.

And so I did all the clubs and all the, like going up every single night, I performed for one guy once. - Oh my God. - No way. - Like he wouldn't leave.

We try to get him to leave, and he's like, "No, it's all right." And they're like, "Well, we don't think it's all right." (laughing) He really wasn't about him. You're like, "What's in?

I don't want to stand up in front of a guy." (laughing) Regularly up in front of four people, five, six,

"Got pretty good show going on." - Yeah. - You were excited about this. - No way. - Yeah, so you just get used to just being in these

kind of like, you know, it takes a long time before you're in front of like an actual pain crowd that's good. - But what does that do for you? What does that do for you, like, rhythm-wise?

It's center when you're just doing six people. Like, I had a learn to get people into my rhythm very quickly. So since I'm talk slower and I'm from South and all this, I had to figure out, 'cause I'd follow like high-energy acts,

and then I'd come up and I'm like, "Why I gotta come up with a joke or I gotta say something, "I need you to hear my voice for a second." So you can go like, "All right, readjust and be like, "Now we're in this rhythm."

And then get into the first kind of, - That's good. - You know, come up with a good like opening little thing or whatever and just, yeah, and get rolling.

“- You know what always blows my mind about stand-ups though?”

Like, how you can just walk around the stage for two hours

and always have something to talk about.

And so like, how do you, is it like a monologue you memorize or like, "How can you just go up and speak?" - 'Cause he's gonna like show business today. He's gonna show or straight. - Yeah, Sean, where do you get a load of money?

- He's gonna love show business, he's gonna love it. Two thirds of the planet is water. (laughing) There's a couple of holes. - No, you know what I mean?

That always blows my mind. Obviously, you had material that you work on, but you ever like, there's your answer. - Go up and you're like, "Oh my God, "I don't know what subject to talk about next,

"like the flow of it." - Well, I don't go up it. - Yeah, I go up prepared. I mean, I can't do the other, I can't really do like crowdwork, go up and stuff.

- It's not freestyling, bro. - No, I don't work it on for months. - But Nate, do you ever switch the order based on the audience? - Oh, yeah, this, this, this new hour,

I've switched it a ton. But it, it's work 'cause now I'm opening on a joke that I have closed on. So it's like, it's great to be opening on a joke that I've actually had to have the energy

and the rhythm of a closer, and then you just move it up and now it's the front. - And you're doing those decisions on the fly. - Yeah, you just fill it out and it's like, I mean, it's kind of like a song.

Like I'm in love with stand-up right now. Like I love it so much and the way I've looked at writing kind of is like, it's a movie. So I'm the main character of this movie. And I'm not, I'm telling the story,

I'm not, there's a reason for being all this stuff and everything leads into the other thing. So you wanna make it where people don't realize you're into another joke, but in my head, I could be on like, joke five.

- Right, right, you're trying to, I'm trying to make it

“where like, you know, and then that's how you remember it”

'cause the only way, you know, if you're talking about like, riding a car and then you're like, my wife bought a car. Well, now that's the only thing I could go into. - Right, right.

- And we will be right back. And now back to the show. Who was your main inspiration as far as developing that style of telling stories as opposed to jokes? Was it like a George Carlin

or 'cause I seem to remember he was, he was kinda like that too, right? - Yeah, well, big, yeah, I, Cosby was it one. - Okay, you know, I'll see. - But like that may, if you go watch his old stuff,

it was, it's a very story tale and all that kinda stuff. I'm a big, sign-filt fan, sign-filt fan. He was, I kind of think,

'cause I always looked at it,

I tell stories, but in a joke form. Like, so I'm not trying to never be too far from the laugh, 'cause the farther you are from the laugh, the bigger the laugh has to be. You know, I don't want to put that much pressure on a laugh,

so if I can just kinda keep it going and let it build, it's like, you know, it doesn't,

“you're just not putting the weight of the world on this,”

you're like, right? 'Cause if they go, if you go silent too long, I mean, there's a point where you're like, well, this joke better be unreal. - Yeah, yeah.

- John tried to stand up and we won't get to his opening joke, but he was, he started so far from the laugh and then he never got even to the same area code as the laugh, you know what I mean? Like, he never, he never had actual direct sight on the laugh.

They never got a clean look at it. - It turned into a lecture. - And there's no, you're like, now we're supposed to go, we'll never get out of now. - Even with a series of mirrors,

he couldn't see the laugh, it would shut its ears. - Yeah, that's how I drive around town, I only take right hand turns. But, Nate, biggest bombing story, like, did you just like, oh my God,

this is the worst, like, yeah, yeah, there's a bunch, I'm not, you blame it on, I had one one time, I thought it was the shirt I wore and so I threw the shirt away. I had a button down shirt and I tucked it in,

and I've never done that since.

(laughing) - Yeah, I was like, it wasn't me, I was just like, - It couldn't have been a material, yeah. - That's fucking shirt, it's killing me. - It's shirt, what does this guy's deal?

(laughing) I did a cruise ship, say no more. - Yeah, I wanna, I wanna contest and your prize was to set you career back five years and do cruise just, (laughing)

And you gotta do like, you gotta do a bunch of shows,

“so you do 30 clean, 30 dirty, I never had dirty,”

so it's like, I can even, and then you would do one another show. So you needed, honestly, because sometimes these people would come back and watch multiple shows. So you needed to have, you know, two hours of material

or do crowd, or be able to mess with a crowd or something. And everywhere we go up and you would do one show at the beginning of it, you do like five minutes each, and it's kind of just like, it's in the big theater. And you're kind of just letting the crowd know,

work meetings, we gotta show back here, blah, blah. So the other guy, just was great and knew how to like, he shot a fly shot on a crowd, like just knew how to like really play with the crowd. - Oh, he's right.

- And he was like, "Come to my shows, every show is different." And he like made a big announcement how they're all different. And then I went up and I said, "My, I go, come to one." And maybe the other one, the other one will be the same.

I had to like, I was like, "Do not come to all my shows." Most will be the same. I don't have enough material to have them all be different. So you can go to his shows, they will be different. Mine will be, and then I went and did a show.

And it was, I started it and like, they didn't laugh and I was like, "Oh, these people have been to every show." And I'm not a crowd or a guy, you know, and I'm like, "So what do you do, man?"

“And you know, guys like, I'm an, he's an old rigger”

in the ocean. It's actually a pretty crazy job. And I was like, "That's cool, and I just moved on." (audience laughing) People were saying crazy stuff like I'm a bank robber.

I'm like, "That's neat, man. What about you, man?" (audience laughing) I had nothing, no riffing. And then I'd arrive in an elevator with these people.

I'm an elevator in the ocean. You think it sounds like I made it. And I'm just sitting there, now to head on. And I just hear some guy just trashing me. And I'm, my shoulder's touching them.

And I just have to sit there. Oh my God. But they do separate them between clean and dirty on a cruise ship. That's exclusive to a cruise ship. Yeah, it would, you would just let have a show

that's like the kids can come to this show, your family can come to this show. And then you'd have like a night at, you know, 11 PM's like adult only show. Yeah.

They, you still can't be that dirty, but it's the idea of it, it's a little more, you know. Yeah, you could have just dropped it in a couple f-bombs. Yeah, I got a blur, this is, I talked about parking. And like, you guys have a parallel part,

you just know like, this guy's filthy. Yeah, I didn't even have it. I didn't even have, I had no dirty jokes. Like, there's no, I don't really, I don't talk about sex or, like political,

or like there's nothing like really like that's kind of like this. What about political sex? Well, you every touch political sex is that something that you'd be willing to do?

Yeah, it's the right joke comes up. Sure, sure. I, you know, it is funny, it is remarkable how, how clean your stand-up is. And a lot of people, it's such a weird thing

to have to say, to point it out. But I guess it is worthy of pointing out. And it is to me, such a testament to how profoundly funny you are. And honestly, and I hope it is a badge of honor for you.

It should be, 'cause it, it really, you find ways to talk about stuff and you don't need to swear. I swear, like, a...

Because we never, never curse.

- Yeah. - Mm-hmm. Famous? Well, let's, again, let's not try to, you know, look at, so let's not. - Yeah. - But, no, let's go down.

We have a new of Cosby and clean, you know? - Yeah. - Yeah. - This guy, so, Nate, wait, did you still at home? What's it like at home? So, like, is this your, do you check out,

do you run jokes by your wife? Does she okay them? Is she sick of hearing them? Like, what is that dynamic at home? - I'll tell her, yeah.

I like, she knows about every joke that comes up. 'Cause that, that's something I had to learn to. When you make fun of your wife at the beginning,

“is you have to show love, like, you have to show,”

'cause people, 'cause I remember the beginning their reaction would be like, well, why are you married? And so then you're like, well, that's not what I want. You don't need to have that reaction. So, you have to, then make fun of yourself,

but with her and you gotta do it in a way that way that they can tell that you do love your wife. - Yeah. - You love your family and, you know, and so it's just kind of like, just making fun of each other. But yeah, I'll run by stuff.

- But that comes across, and you do that bit about the guy coming to replace the water heater in your other special. And then you go finally the guy realizes, you don't know what you're talking about. It thinks, maybe this is a modern relationship,

and he says the lady, the guy said, "Is your husband here?" And then you go, yeah, I think she's here somewhere. (laughing) It's so good.

And it is like you said, you're self-deprecating, you're the, the butt of the joke,

which I think is always such a winning combo.

You're not making fun of somebody, you're not having a laugh at somebody else's expense. You're not putting somebody else down to make yourself funny, which is great. - Yeah, yeah, I was just never liked it.

Like I felt bad. I'm not like, make fun of my buddies and comics and stuff. It's not the audience, you just, I just always felt, you know, it's like this person just trying to sit there, they don't need it.

- You're like big, what's your shirt stupid? (laughing) - And then I got my shirt on tucked in and then I got it right. Then we all got stupid shirts. - Do you, do you still live in Tennessee?

- Yeah, obviously, I was going like 13 years. And then we've been back for about nine. - Yeah, here it's beautiful down there. - Yeah, it's so good, right? - Yeah, and I'm born and raised there, it's great.

We have as much of a normal life as it can be when I live in a cold assac, the house at the top, so we have the leaders and we set the tone for it.

- Have a joke, I'll just second say, it's my new act, Russ,

and we do all in our cool to see if we do all the right things. Like if someone pulls down there, we're like, what are you doing down our street? Any car we don't know, we just run out of the gear and get out of our cool, just furious if they come down there.

- I'm brothers and sisters growing up. I have a younger brother, a younger sister. - Yeah, so you're the oldest of the three. - And do they, are they finding you funny all the time or like, yeah?

- Yeah, yeah, my brother's like three years younger than me. My sister's about 10, I've talked about her in a special and she works for me now too, so that's fine. Let me get yelled at by her. - I mean, you got your whole face.

You got your sister's working for you, and then you're on tour with your mom and dad, and you're on, and, I mean, - Yeah, I feel good though, that's cool. - It's pretty rad.

- I don't think you've said this, but you have kids, sorry, do you have kids?

“- Yeah, I've a level- - Were you so nervous to ask that?”

- Yeah. - But he's married, he said, he's not available. - What are the kids ages? - I did say before, don't ask about, if I have kids. - Yeah.

- Oh, all right, I guess, okay. Yeah, now I've won, 11-year-old daughter. - Oh, okay. - 11-year-old daughter, and what is it seem like she's gonna wanna do with her life?

Does she wanna do what? - She loves horses right now, for so, I don't know that. - Oh, that sounds expensive, that's expensive. - It is, I don't know where, no one, we don't come from horse stuff, you know?

- You're not horse people?

- No, there's never horse people, but she loves horses,

so right now she's kind of doing that stuff, but she's very creative, very funny, and she, you know, will get me in my wife laughing a lot. And I think I gotta teach her where to where the joke, you gotta be like, all right, well, you gotta be serious.

- Yeah, isn't that fun, it's like there's the age when they learn sarcasm, they learn humor, and but they don't yet know when to stop the joke, they don't know when to do the joke, but you don't wanna shame them,

'cause you don't wanna kill their spirit or their sense of humor, so you just gotta kinda grin and bear with so many things in their life, it's so incredible watching kids learn things that we forgot that we learned, you know?

Like it's amazing, you know, nothing until you learn it. - She can make fun of her friends recently, I think, but then they all got like, it was like, they did not like it, and that was like,

and it was funny, I forget what it was,

but it was like, it was something funny, but you're like, all right, you gotta understand. You're like, you gotta, some people will be able to handle it, like, you know, she just is all about the joke, 'cause it's obviously just our, you know, her grandfather's

a magician, me, and like, so it's, it's a lot of joking.

“- I think, yeah, I think that making fun of your friends”

is not a good path to go down, it's not, unless it's hard, it's like, unless it's hard, I mean, it's a big button to hit. - Right, you know, I thought we were talking about friends, yeah, it's hard. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- You're gonna be so warm inside. - Where's that, what's after Syracuse? Where do you go next? - Albany, so let me start you in. - Of course, of course, yeah.

- And what, and just fucks connected to you, like, what do you do? - Yeah, yeah, this is the route, I know we started last night, we were in Philly at the far, we were like, we were the sixest play.

- No way, it's a big thing, and then it goes Syracuse, and then it'll go Albany, and then that's, these are the two to follow and wanted to come to with Syracuse and Albany. - Yeah, of course, that's a big,

those things from here. - I think he's from here, yeah. - He is, he's from upstate New York. What arena or place are you playing tonight in Syracuse? - The arena, the arena. - The carrier, don't probably, right?

Is that what it is? - No, no, no. - No, no, no, no, no.

“I've been to a game there, that's like a huge, okay?”

I've been to basketball game there. You can feel it in basketball court to set up. It's your, people by tickets that are like, I don't think they can see the court. They're sitting like behind the court.

- Would there be a crowd that's just too big for a comedy show? Well, it's just like, it needs to be a little bit more intimate, like 20,000 people is like, right at the max, maybe, or no.

- Yeah, I mean, it's all about having it for, we have, you know, the arena's, we have these big screens. We have, I've put more speakers up, so everybody can hear it everywhere, and you really do try to make it intimate.

I mean, that's the coolest. One of the coolest things is when you're telling a joke and you're, this many people are quiet, you know, and this kind of, and they're just, I mean, you could, I could yell with no microphone

and the top person could hear me is, it gets that quiet. - That's cool. - So yeah, I've been out imagine if you did a stadium, you know, I could see it getting a little, you know, and we're in the middle two of an arena,

so it makes it a, I'm a lot closer to everybody. - 200,000, do a Honda. - Come on. - Do a Honda, do a Honda. - Do the big, do the big, do the big acid, again.

- If you ever had a moment where you kind of scare yourself a little bit by thinking about all the eyes that are looking at you and that they're not talking and that it is silent and that you might not be doing well and you can't leave for another 40 or 30 minutes.

- Are you scared of the eyes? - I mean, if you ever had a panic attack on a stage and know that you can't, you can't leave for another hour. - Yeah, I mean, you've done it so long now that you're, it's just like it's been, it's happened to me.

I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean, I've done it now. It's like, yeah, I mean, you think about all, I had an SNL, like a little bit when I did the model. I was more nervous with the model all because it's like stand up and you're like, I'm supposed to be good

and at this and then you got to kind of deliver the jokes into the camera, but there's the crowd. And so like it was very weird to deliver jokes to kind of a spot where no one's at. - Right, and you're right on the heels of standing back

behind that flat, behind the band, right? That little narrow little plank and the whole crowd is silent and they're counting down to that live moment to America. Like it becomes really tangible. Like you're not just live in front of, you know, crowd,

it's beaming across the planet, like it's real tangible there. - Yeah, you're like, I could say anything right now

“and they're going to hear it right now because it's live, you know?”

- Yeah, yeah. - Remember when I used to remember like 20 jokes when I was a kid, he's still love them. And how I can only remember like one or two, but from back then, they're not that great.

- Do you have any jokes? - Do you have any jokes? - Do you want to hear it go tell a joke and you said, "I don't go in." (laughing) - I do get a little tripped up.

- Do you have a joke for what you were a kid

that you'll never forget?

You may not use it in your act, but it's just like, just a classic that was one of your favorites. - Yeah, I didn't use it in my act, you say you do? - I ain't no, I didn't think off to your, like, I kept it, I suffered a joke, but when I was five

and I'm closing on it. (laughing) - I remember the joke, I said there was a joke book or something and there was a guy goes, "Waiter, there's a spider, there's a fly in my soup."

And then the waiter goes, "Well, don't worry, "there's a spider on your bread, we'll get it." (laughing) There was a picture of a spider, and so my dad always brings,

“I remember that joke, and then my dad brought it up,”

'cause I was like, I was explaining why the joke was funny to him and kind of going through it. Like, here's why this is funny, you know? - Well, that one was the first one, but I let it go. - I guess I have jokes from when you're a kid

that you'll never forget, one joke that's appropriate to tell.

Is there one like a go-to that you remember? - I had a joke book when I was really little, it was, you know, a joke book now, but give me a keep going. - It was, it's not funny. It's funny when I was like six years old,

it's like, where did dad people go in your house and it was the living room? - I have one, which is like, people I would say that ballet is really hard to do, and so I always say, just don't do it.

- Yes, of course. - Oh, I see Nate laughed, Nate laughed at that. - That was Sean's opening joke when he did stand up. - And what is it, this is probably interesting for folks, including me, how do you do the economics

of being a stand up?

“I'm assuming you have to bear all the costs”

of the trucks in the infrastructure and all that stuff, and then you get to keep whatever you don't spend on what it costs to put the show up, right? And you're making your money based on ticket sales and merchandise, perhaps, full stop.

- Yeah, yeah, I mean, merch is not the biggest thing in staying up. - Why? - Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we've had it, we've done it at shows,

and it's just, it does, it's not like a concert, or people don't, like staying up still kind of, it's kind of a newer thing, like, cause me is like,

one of the first, he's still alive.

And like, you know, like, he knew many Bruce and they just just talked to him. - You gotta, if I could give you one piece of advice, if we could just lose the cost, you ever, if we could do that.

- Wait, if we could get it down to single digit, it would be great. (laughing) - Or you know what, I'm gonna just say. - Well, you just said a couple articles.

Harvey Weinstein and I, one set up in LLC,

- Yeah, apparatus, right, like this.

- But you know, you know, you could do it without it. - You get like a deal, so you have promoters,

“and then, yeah, you are, I think it's like the promoters”

the one that's put in the money for like the, the renting of the venue, right. And then I'm paying, then it comes out of mind the show budget of the speakers and all that stuff. And so you can have it go as low as big as you want it to go.

- Who's your manager, who are your peeps? - Brillstein, they're the Brillstein and UTA. - Yeah. - We'll be right back. - All right, back to the show.

- By the way, backing way up to the beginning of this interview, what is Bargazzi? What is the nationality of Bargazzi? - I tell you. - Oh, it is.

- It's first of all, don't, don't. - They didn't help like that, you know? - Like Bargazzi? - What the fuck is that? - The fuck is that?

- The fuck is that? - The fuck is that? - Sorry, Nate.

- I never, I mean, I don't know what the fuck is Bargazzi.

(laughing) I just never heard of this interview. - Really been a B in my bonnet for a minute. - How do you even spell that? - I know, I can't even begin to spell that.

I kind of, I knew that about it, but I forgot that I knew that. - Italian.

“- I think we say it wrong as a family too.”

I think it's supposed to be Bargazzi and we say Bargazzi. Like it's just, we've southern did up. - Oh, I say Bargazzi. - Yeah, I think a lot of people would say, but I went to New, when I lived in New York,

they would always be like, "Bergazzi" 'cause it's like Italian. I was like, you know, "Bergazzi." I was like, "I don't like to make those." - Do you have family in Italy? - I don't.

- You don't know. - Yeah. - I think it's all great to kind of go. We had a family in what's, and we had family come over from Italy,

and we got Kentucky Fried Chicken. (laughing) And I think it was like, from that moment was just kind of like, "All right, y'all have a good life, we did it." (laughing)

And we just got to go on our separate ways. - Nate, what do you like to do in your free time? And you've got a lot of time on a bus, or your touring, or on the plane, or whatever. What do you watch?

What are the things that you're sportsguide? Do you watch other stand-ups? - Is it candy crash? What's, how are you occupying your minutes? - Yeah, I'm a big sportsguide.

So I watched a lot of golf, like any sports golf UFC, one's like UFC. - Oh, you do. - Yeah, I'm a big fan of UFC. - I wanted to peg that.

I wanted to peg you for a bigger one. - It's just the most, the honesty of it, with like, ding the white, just in the fighters, they can say whatever they want. So there's no, you know, like when Tom Brady is a good retire

and not retired, it's like it's all kind of a game and a show, and UFC kind of really is like, we just gotta do that just says, "I want to fight this guy." And it just gets to it and you're, I don't know, I kind of like, I love it.

“- But there's no romance to that too though, right?”

Like, kind of, it's a build-up to it. And then they get, you know, then they don't like each other and then you're, you know, and then you go in there and watch them fight, it's not just watching a street fight. You're watching two professionals

that have to like fill each other out. - So you watch UFC, you watch golf, you like to play golf, you play golf and you're on the road? - Some, it's gets hard, but it's 'cause the show's just up,

but you outplay some on the road. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's kind of, yeah, I don't know, it's like you just running around, got lost a bit, a lot of hanging out.

Like the road is the most fun 'cause it's just like, bunch of dudes and, you know, this morning we went in Syrac, we're in Syracuse and this place as a hot and cold plunge thing. - Sure. - And, uh, well loved.

- So I've never done it, and then so,

but they let us come in, so like we woke up and did that. - Wait, who's, who's Boo Weekly? I saw something. - Oh, yeah. - What is that? - So, this is another, I told it on episode I'd tell to my act too,

but it Boo Weekly, 'cause I have a joke about fighting a ring and tang at a county fair. - No kidding. (laughing) - And there, I read the story, was there's a golfer named Boo Weekly.

And when he read, he said when he was 15, he got in, he goes this county fair, he's from like, Jordan, like seven, seven Georgia, it's like the 80s, you know. And there, you could pay five dollars to fight an arrangeting. And arrangeting would be in a boxing ring with boxing gloves.

(laughing) Do you think they five dollars to fight them? And, uh, that's terrible. - Yeah, and then guys would get in there and this ring thing would just not people out.

(laughing) Because what I said, this, I tell the whole story of my act, but I think, 'cause we didn't have the internet to look up how strong's an arrangeting. You have, it was all word of mouth back there.

So, you know, yeah, they'll need a guy that just fought an arrangeting. And he's like, he's stronger than you think. You know, yeah, we'll be, but the arms are so skinny.

- And the reach, yeah.

- It's the reach, it's the jab, it's the jab.

- Look at his feet, his feet are better than you. Yeah, that's strength comes from somewhere. - And they'll rip your face off too if they won't. - Well, that's what Boo Weekly said, 'cause that's not written everywhere back in 1982,

when you're fighting arrangeting. The guy that does this doesn't go, all, you sign a waiver. - In sure. - Yeah, you don't realize till afterwards, like, that's why he has gloves on.

If this is thinking, if it gets the gloves off, there's a chance you will rip your hand off. So, but, you know, what do you could do, right, the scrambler again? - Yeah, yeah.

(laughing) - Well, I wonder if that's still an existence anywhere in the country. - I think they played.

“I think Peter, I think Peter got a hold of a lot of this.”

- Sure, sure.

- They knocked those things down.

- And that when they were like, you can't do that, we're like, all right, what's thought they liked it? I'm glad you just had to tell us. And we got rid of it, fair enough, Nate,

what are you gonna do today before the show? - Tell 'em you're busy. It was this, and then, yeah, it was just this. I don't have any, I gotta read where I'm messing up some of the order a little bit, so I'll do that a little

and then we're just hangout and be at the venue if there's, we do try to shoot basketball, like some of these arenas that they have basketball, go somewhere, which are like mess rounds you basketball, just kind of, you know, do whatever until that's the show time.

- And then you're going, and then you're going on tour, you've got a new special, you're shooting new specials. - And Phoenix, yeah. - You love Phoenix, you love, you've taught, you did another, you did your last special in Phoenix.

- I did my last special there, and this one's gonna be in the footprint center where the sun's play, so it's, yeah, it's, yeah, I mean, it just kind of works out, like touring wise, like you just hit these towns like every two years or so,

and so it just kind of like,

“- And your family goes with you, or do they stay home?”

- They do some, yeah, yeah, that we went to Europe, like they came to Europe, they come to the, you know, they're not here in Syracuse or Albany, but they, I'm doing the Boston Garden, they're gonna come to Boston, you know?

- Tell 'em to join you out in Phoenix, and for some of the best pizza in the world, as voted by the, the voters. - By the people. - At Chris Biancos.

- At Chris Biancos, can you do, can you do, I saw you do this one thing a long time ago, you don't have to do it by, if you're like, I gotta go. But one of the funniest things I've ever done to you, sorry, I do, you don't mean to stay up and do my act.

- You do mine, I mean, 'cause you just show what your test is real quick, and then you get, and then go, did you mind doing it topless? (laughing) - Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

(laughing) - No, the one of the funniest things was, it was a story about your meeting, your wife's ex-boyfriend. - Yeah, on the boat. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, we went, I gotta remember it,

but we went to, it had happened, we're on the lake, I'll take you like, that's true. - Yeah, and we're in, we're like in the water, and then it's, my wife's ex-boyfriend was on another boat. - Right.

- And I didn't see him, and she pointed out, like there's no reason to pointed out, but she pointed out, so then, you know, like all I can think of now, like, I'm thinking about him, like, and then I look at her, and she's looking at him,

and I feel like she's looking at him to see what her life would be like, it shouldn't marry me. - Yeah. - And I was looking at him to see what my life would be like if I didn't marry her.

(laughing) So we're both with a lot of pressure on this guy. - Yeah.

“- And then my buddy told me, he's like, you should go fight him.”

And I was like, look, he's on a boat, like I gotta swim over to that fight. (laughing) If you're trying to climb in a boat from water, that's not graceful to that easy.

You don't come in with power, I would need his help to start the fight. (laughing) - Right, I think that was it, yeah, it's so funny. But I just, I mean, we are gonna all relate to meeting

x-axis, you know, our current x-axis.

- That's never good, but yeah.

- Yeah, I don't really have X's, but I guess we're talking about it. - I'm talking about it, I don't know, I don't know. - I didn't go, I know, but that's what made it frustrating. I had no one to go show my life for, here's mine. - Yeah, that's what you're gonna be.

- What do you mean, 'cause you, what is your high school, sweetheart, something? - No, we started day like 2021. We met at Appleweas, we both played tables at Apple. I was a host at the time, but that's great.

- I love you. - You don't need to scream, you know. - I mean, that's that was going, you know. - Sounds like so, it's all good in the neighborhood, or what do we do?

- Yeah, we're all in the neighborhood. - We're all in the neighborhood. - Yeah, absolutely. - But we're big fans, we took our daughter to the world. - What's your favorite thing on the Appleweas menu?

- Here we go. - They did chicken broccoli, Alfredo, I'd get no broccoli, you know? - Yeah, get that out of the area. - And then, I'd say put it on the side,

just so the guy thinks I'm gonna eat it,

Yeah, go, I got full on the other stuff. (laughing) - It's so true. Like we're worried what they think, yeah. - Watch this, you think that's impressive,

Sean, Appleweas menu backwards. - Go, go. - Cobbler, Apple Cobbler. (laughing) - Of those kind of, those kinds of restaurants.

- Johnny's chicken salad. - No, he did, I'll eat that. - Every place makes a Chinese chicken salad now. That's like, that's kind of like the new, you know, malt and lava cake.

Every place. - Yeah, yes.

“- What makes it, what makes it a Chinese chicken salad?”

It's just 'cause of the ginger dressing. - They're the only ones that don't eat it. - They get it. - And those crispy noodles, crispy noodles and the... - Yeah, you get the crispy meat.

- No, listen, Sean, I don't have to tell you. - Finch and chicken. - You're chinchin' does the best one. - Yeah. - One of the best ones.

- One of the best ones. - Sean's telling his chinchin' chin. Wait, so of all those kinds of restaurants, I don't forget what you call them. Are they big box restaurants?

- No, chain restaurants. - Chain restaurants. - I've got not been to one in a while, like, yeah. - Just get it. - It's been a minute, but I did like to sit in your new,

especially Nate says, everything, everything I learned. I don't know a lot that came from a big, like, like a building, like a higher education building. Everything I learned, I over her, to target or a lows. - The lows, the lows, the lows. (laughing)

Everything I over her, heard. (laughing) - You're a little... - Yeah, we're a big chain.

“I mean, I grew up, like, we're, you know,”

I had an old joke about, like, I was a big... I don't like mom and pop shops, 'cause they can close just their, like, we don't feel good today in their clothes, like more and more. One more, you know, they were a mom, pop shop,

at some point, and then they got it together and became unreal. - Yeah. (laughing) - So, yeah.

- I like that too. I like mom, pop shop.

- Here's what I like, I like chilies.

And I'm not, I'm not afraid to sit. - They have the great chocolate lava cake, if you want one, go to chilies. - Go to chili, and they also have the great, they used to have the southwest egg rolls

or whatever, they used to have those things. They were great, me and Daxy stole, it was going to kind of love a chili. - What about outback? They any good with the bloom and...

- Yeah, yeah, we go to outback a little bit. Outback. Scottie worked at TGI app, and he would hang out. - Oh, I used to love that. - That's good, yeah, that's fun.

- That's an intimidating menu. - Dr. Pepper's doing some pretty amazing things right now. (laughing) So, if you are into Dr. Pepper, die Dr. Pepper.

- Exactly. - Good stuff going on. - It's a cherry. - It's a cherry. - Like some soda, like cream soda, strawberry stuff.

I mean, it's something, they're just showing off over there. - Did we ever get any confirmation on the Dr. portion of the pepper, like did they, did we ever see documentation to prove that he could just die it?

- He's behind the doctor, wasn't he? - Yeah, I mean, Dr. Pepper. - I do like die, Dr. Pepper, too. - And I'm gonna say this, I like their, like their TV ads.

“- Yeah, I think they're funny, they're all ads.”

I think they're real clever. - Nate, before you let you go, how do you know Greg Garcia? How did that happen? This son of a gun, speaking of son of a gun. - So, I've tried to make a bunch of shows

that had never gone with that one show

that we shot a pilot. And so, Greg came in, I did not know him, he came in Danielle Sanchez, Whitzel. She was a show running it. And she's friends with Greg,

and so Greg came in to help us do it. And I knew Greg Garcia's work, but I didn't know him, why would he first came in. So, before he first came in, he's like, he's gonna help us, and I was like,

"Oh, this dude is, I gotta listen to this guy." And then we wrote our whole, rewrote the whole script on his, off just his ideas, because they were so good. And obviously he's unreal.

And so, we just become really close and become friends, I was just with them this week. Actually, I had dinner with him, 'cause I had to go to LA for a second. And so, he, yeah, we became friends like that.

And he comes down on the road, too. I told him, y'all should, y'all come out on the road, if you wanna get away and have a little fun trip, come on out. - Dude, that would actually be really, really fun.

If you mean it. - It's a fun day. - If you mean it. - I sort of found a company tonight. - Oh, yes.

- We have a fun time. We play cards, you play, you know, like we were, it's a casino last night, and... - Shawn, I mean, first of all, this is your dream. They go to Casino, and they're going to chain restaurants.

I mean, you know, every single, every cracker barrel has got to get merchant from, from Shawn's car. (laughing) - The cracker barrel is one we didn't touch on. I've been there, but I hear that's the one.

- Anywhere they can handle books, parking, and all the things stuff. - Well, Greg Garcia is one of the all-time great guys. Super, super funny guy.

One of the funniest pranks he always,

I'm not really like a big pranks guy, but he is so funny at a long joke in a prank, and I just, he's such a great guy, so yeah,

Well, this, I'm gonna return the offer

and say next time you're out here in California, let's go play golf, man, and then grab some lunch, such a huge fan of yours, dude.

“Honestly, just the funniest, funniest, funniest thing.”

- So funny, it's so good to see you, so exciting to see you just more and more people appreciate. - Really happy for your success, and it's really, really, really, yeah, man. - Thank you, yeah, thanks for having me on.

- Nate, thank you for doing this. - What a thrill. - Thank you for saying it. - What a thrill. - All right, the great Nate, Bragazzi, thank you, buddy. - Thank you, Nate. - Thanks, Nate.

- Thank you guys. - Bye, buddy. - Have fun. - Bye.

- The great Nate, the great Nate.

- Thank you, Nate, great Nate, for me. - Yeah, old school, clean, good, hilarious, non-stop fun. - You just get like a real kind fella, you know? - Yeah, I can't see him getting upset. - I'm sure you could figure out a way to piss him off.

(laughing) - How would you, what would be your strategy? If you really wanted to get Nate pissed off. - I'd ask him with, I'd ask him questions over, I'd ask him the same thing over and over again,

like I didn't understand.

“- No, I think he'd be very patient with it.”

- I don't think that would be his button pusher. - No, but like if you just went on and on about something, like you just really honestly truly didn't understand, I think it pisses anybody off.

- Wonder. - Like what are you not getting, right?

(laughing) - You know what I mean? - No, but we have a pretty high threshold to pit, like we have a pretty decent amount of patience for you in that regard, I mean.

- What does the thing, what does the thing that gets you guys to anger quicker than anything else? - Stupidity. - People don't think like I do. - I'm sure that fuse for stuff, I don't suffer.

- I have a short fuse for like, yeah, people who are incompetent or like can't, like don't have common sense about like easy things. And then in the meantime, I'm the dumbest person on the planet

and I probably do the same thing. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.

“I hate when people like punch down, you know?”

- Yeah. - And it's like mean to people 'cause they do that. - Oh yeah, well that'd be. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, so lazy. - Yeah, yeah, it is. - Punch down either, especially if it, you know,

we do do a lot of joke around and we love to sort of rub each other and stuff, but anytime I see somebody who likes to and we talked about with Nate, who likes to get a laugh, it's somebody else's expense. - Yeah, or you know what else hits piss me off,

confident ignorance. - That can also be super funny though. - Yeah, sometime. - Oh, like work can be. - Right, you have to do it on purpose, but yeah, a person who is much smarter

or much more confident than they have a right to be is just grading. (laughing) And because you have to spend an effort to convince them that you're buying it.

- Right, but if you have no dog in that fight and you're just observing that person, it can be hilarious. - Oh, yeah, that is true, that is true. - By the way, I love playing those characters.

- Yeah, you know. The character that's just an alpha everywhere. And then the tough guy walks in and then they're beta. - Yeah, yeah, right, right, right, right, right, right. - Exactly.

- But Nate, we should go see his show when he's right out. He's so funny. - I think we should meet him in Phoenix and go get some of that Bianco pizza. - We should, and then play some golf over there.

You know, you're not playing golf anymore. - Not to October. - That's all I have to be disciplined, you know. - I know. - I mean, we can go, we can go two nights.

- There it comes, we can go to his show and participate, or we can go and just be a bunch of... - Bystanders! - Bystanders. - So dumb when we do.

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