Nate Bargatze's Dead Horse

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Nate Bargatze is one of the the few comedians whose funniness Jesse couldn't fully put his finger on. He wrote about Nate's Dead Horse joke in April 2018 after Nate performed a shortened version of it on Jimmy Fallon. It was an atypical joke for late night not only because of the length of the joke, but because it was a story about an actual dead horse. But Nate pulled it off, and he pulled it off again in his 2019 Netflix special The Tennessee Kid. Nate talks to Jesse about how he balances punchlines with a conversational joke-telling style, and what actually happened to make him want to turn a dead horse into a joke. They also touch on Nate's father being a clown and magician, and how that upbringing gave Nate the specific ability to make extraordinary and fantastic parts of life seem...regular. Also included: Nate's best heckler. Follow Nate on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast.
0:03.4	Vulture's Good One Podcast is sponsored by Prime Video.
0:09.2	This August, Danup has arrived with five new Amazon original specials hitting the streaming service,
0:13.7	led off on August 16th with a claimed comedian Jim Gaffkin. A week later on August 23rd,
0:18.5	Prime members can laugh along with Alice Wetterland, Alonzo Bowden, Mikey Winfield, and I mom so hard.
0:24.4	Exclusive stand up on Amazon, it's all in the delivery. Only on Prime Video. Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes and those who tell them.
0:45.7	I'm your host, Volcher Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. Our guest this week is Nate
0:50.4	Bargesse and ooh does he have a joke to play for you.
0:55.0	It's so good.
0:56.0	I love it.
0:57.0	It's like the best.
0:58.0	When I first saw a version of it from when he performed on Fallon April 2018,
1:02.0	I wrote an article with a headline, A Very Funny Joke
1:04.8	About A Very Dead Horse.
1:06.4	And I stand by it to this day.
1:07.8	If you haven't heard it, you're going to love it.
1:09.8	If you have, I'm sure you're excited to get to hear it again. The version we play is from his most recent Netflix special of the Tennessee kid
1:15.5	which came out earlier this year. After we play the joke you'll hear Naid and I talk
1:19.2	about all that went into it. Honestly I was equally excited and nervous to talk with him because he's a bit of a mystery.
1:25.8	I've talked to a lot of comedians about him before and it's always a similar conversation.
1:30.3	They agree he's really funny but aren't totally sure why and that's not meant to be an insult
1:36.0	it's actually like probably the highest compliment he's his own thing so with this episode
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