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The Last Laugh

Nate Bargatze Blows Up

The Last Laugh

The Daily Beast

Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Interviews, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Tv, Movies, Film

4.6661 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Nate Bargatze broke through on Netflix’s ‘The Standups’ before premiering his own hour-long special ‘The Tennessee Kid’ on the streaming service earlier this year. But he’s about to get even bigger. Next up, he’ll be starring in a sitcom based on his life for ABC, executive produced by Jerrod Carmichael.

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0:00.0

I was getting coffee, and I like ice coffee with milk. Nothing crazy.

0:05.0

And I went to order it. You know when you order something, and the guy looks at you weird,

0:08.0

and you're like, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what I just said.

0:10.0

But you're both touching the credit card, so you're just too far into it, and you're like,

0:14.0

all right, let's see what he thinks he heard.

0:20.0

And I go to the end of the counter to get my drink, and he gives me milk with ice in it.

0:27.2

I had to ask him, I was like, what is that?

0:28.9

He's like, it's milk with ice in it.

0:31.6

And I was like, do I look like a psycho?

0:33.6

Do you do?

0:36.9

Hello, and welcome to The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.

0:42.2

This week on the show, we have my interview with the very funny stand-up comic, Nate Bargetzi.

0:47.7

Nate has been a touring comedian for a while at this point, but his career really blew up when

0:52.0

Netflix included him in its series The Stand-Ups

0:54.4

in 2017. Earlier this year, they released his first one-hour special called The Tennessee Kid.

1:00.6

When you ask other comedians who they love watching perform, Nate's name comes up a lot.

1:05.5

And just a few days before our interview, ABC announced that they are picking up a sitcom pilot

1:09.6

he developed with fellow comic Gerard Carmichael. We talk about all of that and a lot more on today's episode.

1:15.7

So here's me with Nate Bargetse.

1:18.7

Well, thank you for coming in and doing this. I know the sort of big news this past week is that

1:26.6

the ABC pilot is going forward.

1:29.5

So how did you get that news?

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