Yelled at By A Clown: How Nate Bargatze Found His Funny
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast
Jen Hatmaker
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We’re looking for laughs and we found them in all the right places, and we’re sharing the hilarity with a brand new series called For the Love Of Funny. If you’ve hung out with us for any amount of time, you know that Jen is an avid devotee of all things funny. So we’ve rounded up some of her favorite funny people to not only bring us laughs, but to unpack the art and science of making people laugh. And for our very first episode, we couldn’t be more delighted to welcome “The Tennessee Kid” himself–Nate Bargatze! Nate’s known for his down-to-earth humor and deadpan comedy delivery, his highly viewed Netflix specials, and his favored status as a frequent guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: (10+ times!). Surprise guest interviewer Tyler Merritt joins Jen as they pull back the curtain on Nate’s comedy journey. Often referred to as the “nicest man in standup,” Nate talks about growing up in a performance forward home (his dad was a Christian magician), the origins of some of his funniest jokes (Yelled at By a Clown, anyone?) and the side of fame that isn’t so pretty–like his sister’s incredulity that anyone would want to take a selfie with him.
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Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
For the Love Episode ft. Kevin Nealon
Nate Bargatze: The Tennessee Kid
Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Jen Hatmaker here. I am your host of the FOIA Lab podcast and I have two |
| 0:10.2 | special men with me today. In your one of them. Hi, special thanks. We're saying that. |
| 0:16.0 | You are special. Tyler is with me today. We are on a little trip and this incredible, super, |
| 0:25.2 | super fun interview. We're scheduled. I'm like, this is your genre in more than one way, |
| 0:30.6 | like popping with me. So thank you for sitting there with me on the film. Which you guys are going |
| 0:36.3 | to love. You're going to love this whole hour. I was thinking, let's get 30 minutes and then we |
| 0:41.8 | just take a whole hour. Yeah, that was amazing. I know. You guys, this is a fun series. It's called |
| 0:46.4 | for the love of funny. You know me. I love comedy. I worship it. These are my muses. These are my |
| 0:55.0 | mentors. And so I've always I kind of grew up in a funny family. So we've always loved collectively |
| 1:03.2 | funny movies and funny shows and funny people. And we all think we're funny like everybody. |
| 1:08.6 | Me and all my siblings think we're funny. My dad is legitimately funny. Legitimately. Yeah. And |
| 1:14.6 | so this is just an area that I love. So we did a series on laughter just a few years back. We had |
| 1:21.5 | some incredible comics. We had Kevin Neelan on SNL like royalty. We had Angela Johnson, |
| 1:29.1 | who is one of my favorite favorite favorite female comics. She just had a baby by the way. |
| 1:35.6 | So it's been a minute since we've like had a series on funny and funny people. So guess who we |
| 1:42.5 | are kicking this series off with. You're going to be so excited. I know I was because on the show |
| 1:47.8 | today is Nate Barguetzi. My dude. So I don't want to call Nate a rising star. He's 20 years in |
| 1:57.5 | to the comedy world. So he's kind of had this steady rise. But man, he is, I don't even want to |
| 2:05.8 | be peaking right now, but he is his stars high in the sky. He's been doing comedy for so long. Like |
| 2:12.6 | the hard scrabble way. Like comedy clubs and tours that are route and weird and just the whole |
| 2:20.9 | circuit. And he's just built and built. He's built credibility. He's built up his content material. He |
| 2:27.2 | is built up his audience and his fan base. And now he's just it's just like he's everywhere. I can't |
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