"RE-RELEASE: Nate Bargatze"

(upbeat music) - Do you want anything? One second, I'm just gonna, do you want something? Okay. Okay. Can I get one crispy chicken? Two crispy chicken for you, 'cause I'm not, you want two, yourself. Okay, no judgment, that's fun. And, and ice cream. 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 Betray came on, that my philosophy in life is kind of. - Oh, this is good, hang on. - No, this is good. This is good. Everybody pull over and get out the pen. By the way, this is Shawshank Redemption. - Shawshank Redemption or Tracy, so the movie. So the whole movie, Morgan Freeman, is talking about, like, you know, he goes in front of, though, what is it called, the panel or whatever, the people who, kind of, the board. Yeah, the role board. Yeah, and he's the role board. And he's like, he tells him what they think they want to hear. He's like, no, I've been, you know, reformed. I'm good, I've learned my lesson. And they always deny his role. And then at the end of the movie, he 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. And then that's when he gets released. - That's it. - That's my philosophy for life. - And that's what, full release comes from honesty. Well, two ways. Sorry. - So everybody go ahead and put your car back in drive and toss that paper either out the window. If you solve an ashtray in the car, use that. 'Cause we really didn't get an end to it. But it's nice that Sean's philosophy is like that. - We get, like, you know, don't try to be something you're not, yeah, exactly. - Right, I agree with you. Authenticity is a thematic that I'm on a project that I'm working on right now. That's 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, Willie, you got, when we had Jordan Peel on, his film, "Nope." - Yeah. - I always just thought it was just a fun way to say, yeah, no, I'm not comfortable with flying saucers. - Yeah, yeah. - It says the main character and this shit freaks me out. But it's actually an acronym for. - It's an acronym. And well, he said it's an acronym. And I just went, and I thought about for two seconds, I went, not of planet Earth. - Planet Earth. - And remember the look on his face? He was a little mad, I think. - Well, what you were seeing was the same look that I had, which is total shock at your level of intelligence. - Yeah. - Just like that was my thing. - Dunning, surprise. - That's what hurt me the most was the stunning, the stunning look on everybody's face when I do something. - Well, we're going to have a stunned look at your guest when he comes out. - Well, he's going to have a stunned look. - Oh, Sean, did you have a lunch? (laughing) - He's going to have a stunned look. - Look at when he heard your joke for sure, because he tells jokes for a living. - Oh, shit. - Oh, here we go. - And he doesn't just tell jokes. I, man, he, this guy tells his son of a gun. - This son of a gun, and that's kind of the language that he would use to son of a gun. - Jack Shepard's coming back. - He, Jack's 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, the things he talks about, the way he does it. A lot of people call him the nicest guy in standup. I don't think of him as just the funniest dude. I've seen him such a long time. And I remember the first time I was, I heard about him was through our old friend, Greg Garcia, whom, yeah, and Greg was like, Greg reached out to me. He's like, "You have to have this guy on, Boobla, "and I made some glibber mark." He's like, "You're gonna regret it." I go, "I think he's hilarious, relax, Greg." And then, JB, you and I had the pleasure of meeting him really, really briefly. - I'm going to make you repeat the glibber mark, right in front of him. I had him really, briefly up at last year, up at Pebble Beach, and he's as nice as he is funny, and it's all legit. - I love this guy. - He's so funny. - I love Ray Ramono. - Oh, I love the Tennessee panel. - Ray Ramono. - I love the Tennessee kid. I love his new special Hello World on Amazon. He's about to go on tour in a new one. Guys, it's none other than the hilarious Nate Burgazzi. - Nate Burgazzi. - Oh, no. - Even better. - Even better. - Yay. - I was ready for Ray. - I love Ray. - Hey, 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 Shawshake. So. - Well, you're young. - You're too young for it. You know, it's before your time. - Wait, wait, how old? - I'm 44. - I should have. - It's pretty young. - You know what, Nate? I didn't see Shawshake 'til I was 45. - Oh, I'll do it next year. - Anyway. - Yeah. - Nate Burgazzi. - I'm Nate. - You 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 are you in 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. - That's what they say. - They build. - I like that, Nate, I like that, Sean, you said I'm in Syracuse and she goes, "Working." Nah. (laughing) - That's just, he's just hanging out with the orange man. - This is the vacation's I can afford to Syracuse. - He goes, "It's nice, we took a bus up, but it's, you know." - We spent on the hotel room. - Yeah, everything went to this. - Now, what kind of-- - My family of 30 is right off camera. - Yeah, we're just right there, they're awesome. - If y'all talk during this, I will 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 has come into the show. - Oh, that's great. - He's going to jump on the bus. - Where do I know, to tell me what we would know him from? - That movie, "Pitch Fever." - "Pitch Fever, Pitch Fever." - "Pitch Fever." - I have to say this, we developed a show together years ago. - What? - And you are very successful then. But to see you over the years, this kind of like, and then SNL, and then like, it's so exciting to finally be like, yes, this guy has been brilliant, has always been brilliant, and now more and more people can see it. - You sell it, Nate, you sell it, Nate, you sell out arenas like 20,000 at a clip, which is just unbelievable. And on top of this, and I'm going to say this, and I really, and I've said it a bunch since it aired, when you're on SNL. Your sketch, you're George Washington's sketch. - That was me, just in my opinion, the funniest SNL sketch I've seen in 15 years. - I totally agree with that, I totally agree with that. - Remarkable, you know, your TV just went on, which tells you the board. - The family's board. - The 30 men are getting itchies. - There's no one anywhere. - It's just you and Jim Benheim, right? - Yeah. - You may turn it off, it doesn't matter. - No, no, it's gonna be something to watch. - But you have, I go with Sean saying, you have just like, finally, thankfully, the rest of America is just like, understand what an awesome, 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. - Yeah, Old Hickory. - Is it next to New Hickory? - No, New's a little bit far. - Was it ever New Hickory? - He's got this great joke and his new special on Amazon Prime where he says up from Old Hickory's where Andrew Jackson's from and people are like, he wasn't a good guy and they 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 a kid and stuff like, did you were always in the comedy? Did you watch SNL? Like, what were your inspiration? - I was thinking this and I was getting to. How did you start? - I just got there first. It's, I grew, my dad's a magician. - What? - And does come. - Mine too. Mine can disappear on the drop of a hat. - Sean Hays, you are touchy old quick, get out of here. - Sorry Nate. - Thanks you guys. - He's going. - I grew up around that. I mean, so that was like, you know, I was funny, but then also growing up around, you know, my dad being a magician. - You learned how to. - So he just like, yeah, it just kind of lead you to it. I guess. - Wait, wait, wait. So Nate, so you grew up your dad's a magician. He obviously loved you, sorry Sean. And he, I mean, to the extent that he wanted to stick around. - I'm friends with Sean's dad. - Yeah. - Oh, so you know where he went. - Yeah, yeah, he's a pretty good dude. I can't believe he gave you. - Yeah. I don't know the whole backstory, but I know. I just know from what our hanging out. - He's got no tread left on his tires, but he's a good guy. - Yeah. - He talks you up into 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. It is, you know, I don't know if I even understood it. Like I'm sure, I think of it like with my daughter and I'm sure your kids, like it doesn't seem not normal. Like it just felt 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 do nobody's dad's a magician. - Yeah. (laughing) - Start saying you don't know when you're asked what your dad does. - Right. - Yeah. - So he would make the line. - I mean, I have people do magic, like magicians who show me magic tricks. I've just seen them all too. And I'm just, I'm just not a good, I'm not a good, person to perform for because I'm just like, all right. You know, you know, it's like this your card, you're like, it's always my, it's always my car. It's always been my car. 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. It's a good one. But I, 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 mimes, but you know what? You can't take your eyes off of mine or, or a magician. It's, uh, it, it, it gets a bad wrap. You can't take your eyes off of mine. Yeah. That's a quote of the day. Wait. So Nate, so your dad's show was going to ask this. So your dad made a living as, as a magician. Well, he did, he was a teacher too. Like, so he had a day job and then he would do that. And then we were always in Nashville. And, uh, so he just always done it. And I mean, he's, he's very successful. He's very known in the magic world. He comes with me and opens for me, uh, a lot on the road. No, yeah. 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. So, uh, yeah, we got a little CPAP machine hooked up in a tour bus. It's a good guy. He got some ramps on the side of that state. Yeah. I mean, we were, 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 by this tour bus and they're like, it's pretty rocking in there. And I mean, we got, it's lights off, quiet, just the roar of machines keeping everybody alive. And the smell of linemen. Um, wait. So did you ever perform in the magic shows with your dad? I did some. Yeah. I would help him with magic. You ever get cut in half? No, no, we didn't ever do that. We did. He never did that. Go that for it. Just slight hand. All of it. A lot of slight a hand. And he does come. I was my favorite. Yeah. So then when you, what age were you when you were like, uh, actually kind of to where Jason, you kind of alluded to, but did you start just like being a wiseass on the, on the side of your dad's stage while he was doing magic? Like, is that how stand up started for you? Uh, I think it was just being funny. We would, like, I remember seeing stand up. It was just, it was just trying to, it was trying to meet people. I don't think I ever make fun of anybody. Right. It was, but it was like, I would make fun of myself a lot, which is what I do now in my comments. It'd be like, you'd be doing stuff like that, making funny. He had, I mean, one time, I talked to us in a special on one of them, but it was like, he brought the Easter bunny home when I was like six. He was at the, he was at a mall doing a show. And, uh, the Easter bunny needed to ride home. And, uh, 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 had this old red Mazda stick shift, you know, and, uh, the Easter bunny's head was bent to the side because his head couldn't fit in the car. Sure. So he was just, he was sitting like this. And then he got out and I met the Easter bunny and then my dad drove this bunny home. So that's, so that started your, the Easter bunny, it says, that was the, yeah, that was the trajectory. I go, if I could be that guy, then maybe I can make it as. Now, what, what, what was your mom's, um, uh, attitude on, on, uh, her husband's career? My parents have been together since seventh grade. And, uh, they, my mom's very funny. And, but she, she worked in 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 to my dad will be like, guard the store. I need you to buy 12 lemons. And he has to buy it for like his magic, uh, a bunch of newspapers from that day. It's like a bunch of random, and it's just normal conversation. You're just like, it's a Tuesday. You're just trying to grab some Brad milk and 30 oranges. And then you get on out of there and handkerchiefs and six colors. He's got a lot of shows this week. Uh, so, uh, it's just stuff like that. That's cool. Wait, wait. So, so Nate, so I want to kind of get again, this, this is where the worst interviewer is on the planet. We were just voted worst ever interviewers. We nailed it of all time. Um, but I want to go back because we again, because you play these huge arenas and it's amazing. I don't, 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, and you, you're so organic. Yeah, you draw us in as opposed to ask. And we're talking about authenticity. You're very authentic. But you, that feels like you, that when you started, you must have started in clubs like in smaller venues, right? Like, like most comics, 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 gosh. No way. Like he wouldn't leave. We tried to get him to leave and he's like, nah, it's all right. We don't think it's all right. He really wasn't about him. You're like, what's it? I don't want to stand up in front of a god. Uh, regularly up in front of four people, five, six, like, I mean, six people was like, got pretty good show going on. You know, you were, you were excited about. 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 your like rhythm-wise at center when you're just doing six people like? Well, I had to 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 because I would follow like high energy acts and then I'd come up and I'm like, well, I got to come up with a joke or I got to say something. I just 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, you know, come up with a good like opening little thing or whatever and just 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 just like, how do you, is it like a monologue you memorize or like, how can you just go up and speak. God, he's going to love showbizis. Yeah, Sean, where do you get a load of her? He's going to love showbizis. He's going to love it. Two-thirds of the planet is water. 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 do 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 crowd work, go up and so it's very, very free. It's not freestyle and bro. No, I work it on it for months. But Nate, do you ever switch, Nate, do you ever switch the order based on the audience? Oh, yeah, this new hour, I've switched it a ton, but it's work because now I'm opening on a joke that I've closed on. So it's like, it's great to be opening on a joke that I 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. It's like, I mean, it's kind of like a song. Like, I like, I'm in love with standup right now. Like I love it so much. And it's 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, there's a, you know, of reason for me saying all this stuff and everything leads into the other thing. So you want to 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, I'm trying to make it where like, and then that's how you remember it because 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 because I seem to remember he was, he was kind of like that too, right? Yeah. Well, big, yeah, Cosby was one. Oh, yeah. You know, obviously, but like that may, if you go like watch his old stuff, it was, it's very storytelling and all that kind of stuff. I'm a big Seinfeld fan. Seinfeld was, uh, he was, I kind of think, because I always looked at it, I got to tell stories, but in a joke form. Like, so it's, I mean, I try to never be too far from the laugh, because the farther you are from the laugh, the bigger the laugh has to be. And I don't want to put that much pressure on a laugh. So if I can just kind of 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, because 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. Sean tried to, Sean 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, he never had actual direct sight on the laugh. They never got a clean look at it turned into a lecture. And there's no way, you're like, no, he's supposed to go, well, I never get out now. Even with a series of mirrors, he couldn't see the laugh. That's a shot of me. That's how I drive around Toronto and let's take a 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 mean, I, you blame it on, I had one one time, I thought it was the shirt I wore. And so I threw that shirt away. I had a button down shirt and I tucked it in and I've never done that since. Yeah, I was like, it wasn't me. I was just like, yeah, it could have been material. Yeah, that's fucking shirt is killing me. What does this guy's deal? I did a cruise ship. Yeah, I want to, I want a contest and your prize was to set your career back five years. And so I go out and I'm doing it. And you got to do like, you got to do a bunch of shows. So you do 30 clean, 30 dirty. I never had dirty. So it's like I couldn't 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 we're comedians. We've got a show back here, blah, blah. So the other guy just was great. And knew how to like, he shine the fly shot on the crowd. Like just knew how to like really play with the crowd. Always win. And he was like, coming 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 it 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 we're got, you know, and I'm like, so what do you do, man? And I, you know, some guys like, I'm an, he, 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. People are saying crazy stuff. Like, I'm a bank robber. And that's neat, man. What about you, man? I had nothing. No riffing. And then I had a rod in an elevator with these people. I'm an, I'm an elevator in the ocean. You think it sounds like I made it. And I'm just sitting there now to hat on. And I just hear some guy just trashing me. And I'm, my shoulder's touching him. And I just 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 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 p.m.s. like adult only show. Yeah. 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 into a couple f-bombs. Yeah, I got a curse as I talk about parking. I'm like, you guys have a parallel part. Just like this guy is 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 talk about sex or like political. Like there's nothing like really like that's kind of like this. What about political sex? Will you ever touch political sex? Is that something that you'd be willing to do? Yeah, the right joke comes up. Sure. Sure. You know, it is funny. It is remarkable 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 because it really, you find ways to talk about stuff and you don't need to swear it. I swear like a. And Cosby never, never cursed. Famous? Well, let's, again, let's not try to, you know, look at, so let's not. Yes. But, let's go down the avenue 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. Is that something I had to learn to when you make fun your wife at the beginning? Is, you have to show love? Like, you have to show. Because people, because I remember at the beginning, the reaction would be like, well, why are you married? And so then you're like, well, that's not, 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 got to do it in a way that where they like, they can tell that you do love your wife. Yeah, 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've got, you do that bit about the guy coming to replace the water heater in your other special. And you're, and then you go, finally, the guy realizes, you don't know what you're talking about. And he thinks, maybe this is a modern relationship. And he says to me, because he's the guy I said, is your husband here? And then you go, yeah, I think she's here somewhere. It's so good. And it is, like you said, you're self-deprecating. You're 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. But in 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. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's your shirt, your shirt's stupid? Yeah. And then I got my shirt on tucked in. Right? Don't we all got stupid shirts? Yeah. Do you still live in Tennessee? Yeah. I was back. So I was gone like 13 years. And then we've been back for about nine. Yeah. I hear it's beautiful down there. Yeah, it's so good, right? Yeah. I'm born and raised there. It's great. As much of a normal life as it can be, we're going to live in a cul-de-sac, the house at the top. So we have the leaders. And we set the tone for it. I have a joke. I'll just say it's my new act, Russ. And we do all, in our cul-de-sac, we do all the right thing. Like if someone pulls down there, we're like, what are you doing down our street? In the car, we don't know. We just run out of that. You very good out of our cul-de-sac. I'm just furious if they come down here. Um, brothers and sisters growing up? I have a younger brother, a younger sister. Oh, yeah. So you're the oldest of the three. I am. And do they, 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, and it's special. And she, she works for me now too. So that's fun. I mean, you get yelled at by her. Uh, I mean, you got your whole fail. You got your sisters working for you. And then you're on tour with your mom and dad and your aunt. And, uh, I mean, hold on. That's cool. It's pretty rad. I mean, you, I don't think you've said this, but you have a kid. If you're, sorry, do you have kids? Yeah. I've, uh, uh, 11 year old. Why are you so nervous to ask about that? Just about. By the way, he's marijuana. He said he's not available. What are the contagious? I did say before. Don't ask about if I have kids. Yeah. Oh, all right. Okay. Uh, yeah. I have one 11 year old daughter. Oh, great. 11 year old daughter. And what does it seem like she's going to want to do with her life? Does she want to, uh, she loves horses right now. So I don't know. Oh, that sounds expensive. That's expensive. It is. I don't, I don't even know where no one. We don't come from horse stuff, you know? You're not, you're not horse people. No, there's never horse people, but, uh, she loves horses. So right now she's kind of doing that stuff. But she's very creative, very funny. She, you know, uh, will get me and my wife laughing a lot, you know, and that good. I think I got to teach her where to wear the joke. You got to be like, all right. Well, you got to be serious. Yeah. Isn't that fun? It's like there's, there's, there's the little, 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. Um, but you, you don't want to shame them because you don't want to kill their spirit or their sense of humor. You just got to kind of 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 recent and like, I think, but then they all got like it. It was like, they did not like it. And I was like, and it was funny. I forget what it was, but it was like, it was something fun. But you're like, all right. You got to understand. You're like, you got to, some people will be able to handle it. Like, you know, she just is all about the joke because it's obviously just our, you know, her grandfather's a magician. 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, um, unless it's a big button to hit. No, I thought we'd talk about friends. Yeah, Sean. Yeah, right. Where's that? What's after Syracuse? Where do you go next? Albany. So we started. Of course. Of course. Yeah. And just fucks connected. Like, what are you doing, dude? Yeah. Yeah, this is the route. I know we started last night. We were in Philly at the far. We like, it was worth it. The Sixers play. No way. This is big thing. And then it goes Syracuse. And then it'll go Albany. And then that's these are the two. The foul and wanted to come to you with Syracuse and Albany. Yeah, of course. That's a big. I think he's from up here. Yeah. Uh, he is. He's from up St. New York. What, what, uh, what arena or place are you playing tonight in Syracuse? The, you know, the arena. The carrier don't probably write. Is that what it is? No, no, no. Yeah. Now, I've been to a game there. That's like a huge. Okay. I've been to basketball game there. You could fill in basketball court to set up. It's your people by tickets that are like, I don't think they can see the. Right. They're sitting like behind the court. Would there be a crowd that's just too big for, for a comedy show? Well, it's just like it's, it needs to be a little bit more intimate. Like 20,000 people is like right at the max. Maybe or, or no. Yeah. I mean, it's all about how we feel. We have, like, you know, the reenies. We have these big screens. Uh, we have, I've put more speed. so everybody can hear it everywhere. You really do try to make it intimate. I mean, you can tell everybody gets real quiet. I mean, that's one of the coolest things is when you're telling a joke and this many people are quiet. - Yeah, right. - You know, and they're just, I mean, you could, I could yell with no microphone and the top person could hear me. It gets that quiet. - That's so 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 lot, a lot closer to everybody. - Two a hundredth out, do a Honda. Come on, do the big house of Michigan. - Have 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 45 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 leave for another hour. - I have. - 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, it's like, yeah, I mean, I've done it now. It's like, yeah, I mean, you think about it. I had an SNL like a little bit when I did the monologue. I was more nervous with the monologue 'cause it's like, stand up and you're like, I'm supposed to be good and at this and then you gotta 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 sitting, of standing 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, you know, the planet. - Oh yeah. - Like it's real tangible there. - Yeah, you're like, I could say anything right now and they're gonna hear it right now 'cause it's live, you know? - Yeah, yeah. - Remember when I used to remember like 20 jokes when I was a kid, he still love 'em. And how I can only remember like one or two, but from back there, no, they're not that great. - Do you have any jokes? - You wanna hear a guy tell a joke inside alcohol? (laughing) - I do get a little tripped out. Do you have a joke for what you were 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 to go. - You say you do? - I ain't, no. I didn't hang on to you. You're like, I kept it. I suffered a joke but but I was five and I'm closing on it. (laughing) It's, I remember the joke. It was, I said, it was a joke book or something and there was a guy goes, waiter, there's a spider, or there's a fly in my soup, and then the waiter goes, well don't worry, the spider on your bread will get it. (laughing) It was a picture of a spider bite. And so my dad always brings, I remember that joke and then my dad brought it up 'cause I was explaining why the joke was funny to him and kind of going through it. Here's why this is funny, you know? So that one was the first one, but I let it go. - You guys have jokes from when you were 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, - You have a joke book now, but hey, hey, I keep going. - It was, it's not funny. It was funny when I was like six years old. It's like where did dead people go in your house? And it was the living room. - I have one which is like the, people I would say that ballet is really hard to do and so I always say, just don't do it. - Yeah. - Oh, a thing, 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. What are the, how do you do the economics of being a stand-up? I'm assuming you have to bear all the costs of the trucks and 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, we don't, I mean, merch is not, merch is not the biggest thing in stand-up. - Yeah. - Why? - Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we've had it, we've done it at shows. And it's just, it's not like a concert or people don't, like you're saying like stand-up is still kind of, it's kind of a newer thing, like it's like, Cosby's like one of the first, he's still alive. And like, you know, like he knew Lenny Bruce. And then he's just, don't, you gotta, if I can give you one piece of advice. - If we could just lose the Cosby, if we could get in it. - Well, if we could get it down to single digits, it'd be great. - Yeah, he could, all right. Or, you know what, I'm gonna say a couple articles. - Harvey Weinstein and I, one set up a Nell L.C. But, so, you've got this, you've got this huge apparatus, yeah, apparatus, right, like this. - But you know, you could do it without it. You get like a deal, so you have promoters. And then the, yeah, you are, I think it's like the promoters, the one that's putting the money for like the, the renting of the venue. - Yeah. - And then I'm paying, then it comes out in mind of the show budget of the speakers and all that stuff. And so you can have it go as low or 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 Bargotsie? What is the nationality of Bargotsie? - Italian. - Oh, it is? - First of all, don't spit it out like that. - You know, like, Bargotsie. - What the heck is that? - What the fuck is that? - Sean Corbyn here. - Sorry, Nate. - No, I never like it. - I mean, I like the way what the fuck is Bargotsie. - I just never heard of this. - This has really been a be in my bonnet for a minute. - How do you even spell that? - I know, I can't even begin to spell it. I kind of, I knew that about it. I forgot that I knew that. - Italian. - I think we say it wrong as a family, too. I think it's supposed to be Bargotsie and we say Bargotsie. Like, it's just we've Southern did up. - Oh, I say Bargotsie. - Yeah, I think a lot of people would say that. - But I went to New York, they would always be like, Bargotsie because it's like Italian. I was like, you know, Bargotsie. I was like, I don't like tomatoes. - Do you have family in Italy? - I don't. - You don't know? - Yeah. - I think they've all agreed to kind of go. We had a family reunion once and we had family come over from Italy and we got Kentucky Fried Chicken. - That's it. - I think it was like from that moment was just kind of like, all right, y'all have a good life. We did it. We're gonna do our thing, we're gonna do y'all's thing. And we just kind of gone our separate ways. Nate, what do you like to do in your free time? And you've got a lot of time like on a bus or your touring or on the plane or whatever. What do you watch? What are the things are your sports guide? Do you watch other stand-ups? - Is it candy crash? What's, how you occupying your minutes? - Yeah, I'm a big sports guy. So I watch a lot of golf, like any sports. Golf, UFC, one is like UFC. - Oh, you do? - Yeah, I'm a big fan of UFC. - I wanted to, I wanted to peg that. I wanted to peg you for a beer. - It's just the most, the honesty of it. With like, dang the white just in the fighters, they can say whatever they want. And so there's no, you know, like when Tom Brady is a good retire, not retire. 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 then it just gets to it. And you're, I don't know, I kind of love it. - But there's no romance to that too though, right? Like the kind of-- - There's the build up to it. And then they get in the, 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 on your other road? - Some, it gets hard, but it's, 'cause the shows and stuff. But yeah, I'll play some on the road. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's kind of it. I mean, I don't know. It's like you're just running around, got lots of it, 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 and we're in Syracuse in this place as a hot and cold plunge thing. - Sure. - And, uh, 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 is Boo Weekly? I saw something. - Oh, yeah. What is that? - So, this is another, I told it on SNL Delt in my act too. But it, Boo Weekly, 'cause I would joke about fighting a rangentang at a county fair. - No kidding. - And where 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 George, like seven, seven, Georgia. It's like the 80s, you know, and there, you could pay $5 to fight an rangentang. A rangentang would be in a boxing ring with boxing gloves. And so, do you think they pay $5 to fight him? - That's hysterical. - Yeah, and then guys would get in there, and this rangentang would just knock people out. Because what I say, I tell the whole story in my act, but I think as we didn't have the internet to look up how strong is a rangentang. You have, it was all word of mouth back then. So, you know, yeah, they'll need a guy that just fought me, in a ring of tape. And he's like, he's stronger than you think. You know, but the arms are so skinny, you know, I know. That's a reach as well. And the reach. It's the reach. It's the job. It's the job. Look at his feet. His feet. Yeah, that's strength comes from somewhere. And they'll rip your face off too if they want. Well, that's what Boo Wiggie said. He goes, that's not written everywhere back in 1982 when you're fighting a regular. The guy that does this doesn't go all, you sign a waiver. And sure. Yeah, you don't realize, so afterwards, like, that's why he has gloves on. If it's thinking, if it gets the gloves off, there's a chance he will rip your head off. So, but, you know, what are you going to do? Write the scrambler again. I wonder if that's still in existence anywhere in the country. I think there's no place. I think Peter got a hold of law. Sure. They knocked those things down. And that one, they were like, you can't do that. We're like, all right. We 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 going to do today before the show? Tell them you're busy. It was this. And then, yeah, it was just this. I don't have any stuff. 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 hanging out and be at the venue. If there's, we do try to shoot basketball, like some of these arenas that they have the basketball goals somewhere, we're trying to mess around as you basketball and just kind of, you know, do whatever until it's nice. That's nice. And then you're going, and then you're going on tour. You got a new special. You're shooting new special in Phoenix. 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 going to be in the footprint center where the sun's played. So it's, yeah, it's, 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 or? 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, if they're going to, I'm doing the Boston Garden, they're going to come to Boston. Okay. Tom, to join you out in Phoenix and for some of the, the best pizza in the world, as voted by the, the, the, the, the voters, the people at Chris Biancos. Chris Biancos. Yeah, go get some. Nick, can you do, I saw you do this one thing a long time ago. You don't have to do it, but if you're like, I gotta go. But one of the funniest things I've ever saw you do, sorry, dude, you don't mean to stay enough and do my act. Did you mind? I mean, can you just show us your tits real quick, and then, and then go to the show. Did you mind doing it topless? Sorry, show us your tits. No, the one of the funniest things was I, it was a story about your meeting your wife's ex-boyfriend. Yeah, on the boat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we went, uh, I gotta remember it, but we went to, it happened. We're on the lake. Old Hickory Lake. Is that true? Yeah, and we're in, uh, we're like in the water, and then it's, uh, my wife's ex-boyfriend was on a, another boat, right? And I didn't see him, and she pointed out, like, there's no reason to point it out, and, but she pointed it out. So then, yeah, like, all I can think of now, like, I'm, I'm thinking about him, like, and then I, 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 if she didn't marry me. Yeah. And I was looking at him to see what my life would be like if I didn't marry her. So we both put a lot of pressure on this guy. Yeah. And then my buddy told me he's, he's like, you should go fight him. And I was like, what? Like, he's on a boat. Like, I gotta, I gotta swim over to that fight. Yeah. Have you ever tried climbing a boat from water? It's not, it's not graceful, it's not easy. Uh-uh. You don't come in with power. I would need his help to start the fight. Right. I think that was it. Yeah. That's how it was. Yeah. It's so funny. But I just, I mean, we can all relate to meeting X X's, you know, our, our current X's. I know. It's never good. But I, yeah, I don't, I, yeah, I don't really have X's, but, all right. I got what we're talking about, Nate. I know. I didn't go. I know. Well, that's what made it frustrating. I don't, I had no one to go show my wife for. Here's mine. Yeah. As you can see, what do you mean? Cause you, what is your high school sweetheart or something? No, we started date like 20, 21. We met at Apple. We, uh, we both played the tables at Apple. I was a host at the time. But, uh, that's great. I love that. You don't need to scream. Yeah. Yeah. Well, stuff is going, you know, sounds like it's all good in the neighborhood. Or what do we do? Yeah. We're all in the neighborhood. Yeah. Absolutely. In the neighborhood. We were big fans. We took our daughter. What's, what was your favorite thing on the Apple Beasts menu? Here we go. Uh, they had the chicken, chicken broccoli off right out. I'd get no broccoli, you know? Yeah. Get that out of the area. And then, uh, I'd say put it on the side just so the guy thinks I'm going to eat it. Then he would just take a full plate of broccoli back after I got, I got full on the other stuff. Uh, it's, that's so true. Like we, like we're worried what they think. Yeah. Yeah. Watch this. Do you think that's impressive? Sean Apple, these menu backwards go. Uh, uh, cobbler, Apple cobbler. Uh, I've, I've, those kind of, those kinds of restaurants. Johnny's chicken salad. No, you're good. I'll eat that. Every, every place makes it. Johnny's chicken salad now. That's like, that's kind of like the new, uh, you know, molten lava cake. Every place. What makes it, what makes it a Chinese chicken salad? It's just because of the ginger dressing. They're the only ones that don't eat it. And those, those, those crispy noodles, the crispy noodles and the, uh, yeah, you get the crispy, no, listen, Sean, I don't have to tell you, Finchen, not, you, Finchen does the best one. Yeah. One of the best ones. One of those. John's telling his chin, chin, 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 y'all not been to one in a while. Like, you know, just, it's been, it's been a minute, but I did like to sit in your new special Nate says, everything, uh, everything I learned. I don't know a lot that came from a big, like, like, like a building, like a, a higher education building. Everything I learned, I overheard it at a target or a low. The lows. Overheard. Yeah, we're big chain. I mean, I grew up, like, we're, uh, you know, I had an old joke about, like, I was a big, uh, I don't like mom and pop shops because they can close just they're like, we don't feel good today and they close like one mark, one mark, you know, they were mom pop shop at some point and then they became, they got it together and became unreal. Yeah. So, yeah, I liked that. But I like mom. Here's what I like. I like chilies and I'm not, I'm not afraid to say. 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, uh, egg rolls or whatever. These have those things. They're creamy and dax. You still always go to God. I love a chili. What about outback? They any good with the blooming? Yeah, we go to outback. A good bit out. Scotty. Scotty worked at TGIF and he would have. I always to love that. That's good. Yeah, that's an intimidating menu. Dr. Pepper is doing some pretty amazing things right now. So it's your answer. Dr. Pepper died. Dr. Pepper. They got that right. Good stuff going on. Yeah, it's cherry. All right. They got some, like some soda like cream soda strawberry stuff. I mean, it's, it's something, dude. They're just showing off over there. Did we ever get any confirmation on, uh, on the doctor portion of the pepper? Like did they, did we ever see documentation to prove that he was just diet. What just kind of doctor was he? Yeah. I mean, Dr. Pepper, he was I do like diet, Dr. I do like diet, Dr. Pepper to and I'm going to say this. I like their ads, I like their TV ads. Yeah, I think they're funny. The cultural ads. I think they're real clever. Nate, before I let you go, how do you know Greg Garcia? How did that happen? This son of a gun speaking the son of a guns. Uh, so I, we, I've tried to make a bunch of shows that have never gone. We've had one show that we shot a pilot and, uh, and so Greg came in. Uh, I did not know him. He came in. Uh, Danielle Sanchez Whitzel. Uh, 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 at what he first came in. So when he first came in, he's like, he's going to help us. And I was like, Oh, this dude is. Yeah. I got to listen to this guy. And then we wrote our whole, we wrote the whole script on his, off just his ideas because they were so good. And, uh, obviously he's unreal. And, uh, so we just become really close and become friends. I, uh, I was just with them this week. Uh, actually, I had, uh, dinner with him because I had to go to LA for a second. And, uh, so, uh, he's, yeah, we came friends like that. And he, he comes down on the road too. I tell you, y'all should, y'all come out on the right of you. If you want to 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 thing. If you mean it, I swear, founds coming tonight. Oh, yeah. We have a fun time. It's, you just, uh, play cards. You play, uh, you know, like we went to Casino last night in, uh, Sean. 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, every single, every cracker barrel has got, got to, uh, skin merchant from, from Sean's car. You know, cracker barrels. One we didn't touch on. I've not been there, but I hear that. That's the one anywhere that can handle bus parking. It's all changing stuff. Well, Greg RC is one of the all-time, uh, great guys. Super, super fun to go. Yeah. One of the the funniest pranks, he always, I'm not really like a big pranks guy, but he is so funny at a long joke and a prank. And I just, he's such a great guy. So, yeah, that makes sense that you guys are be pals. Um, well, let's, I'm going to return the, the offer and say next time you're out here in California, let's go play golf, man. And, yeah, I would love to have some lunch, uh, such a huge fan of yours, dude. Honestly, you're just the funniest, funniest, funniest, funny. It's so funny. It's so good to see you. So exciting to see you just more and more and more people appreciate you. Really happy for your success and truly, truly, truly. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for, thanks for having me on. Nate, thank you for doing this. What a thrill. Thank you for saying it. Yeah. All right. The great name for God see. Thank you, buddy. Thank you, Nate. Thanks, Nate. Thank you, guys. See you, buddy. Have fun. Bye. The great Nate, the great Nate, great Nate, great Nate. Yeah, old, like, old school, clean, good, hilarious, nonstop fun. Yeah. God, 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. 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 you'd be very patient with that. I don't think that would be his button pusher. No, like, no, but like if you, if you just went on and on about something like you just really honestly truly didn't understand, I think it pisses anybody off. I wonder, like what are you not getting, right? Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? No, we have a pretty high right threshold to be like, we have a pretty decent amount of patience for you in that regard. Yeah. 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 have a short fuse for stuff. I don't suffer. I have a short fuse for like, yeah, people who are incompetent or like can't like, like, 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 one. I hate when people like punch down, you know, like mean to people because they want to be. Yeah. Yeah. So lazy. Yeah. Yeah. It is punch down either either, especially if it, you know, we do do a lot of joke around and we love to sort of rip each other and stuff, but but anytime I see somebody who likes to and we talked about with Nate, who likes to get to laugh, it's somebody else expense. Yeah. Yeah. Or you know what else? It's pissing me off confident ignorance. That can also be super funny though. Yeah. Sometime. Well, the character 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. Because you have to spend an effort to convince them that you're buying it. Right. But but if you have no dog in that fight, and you're just observing that person, it can be hilarious. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That is true. That's true. By the way, I love playing those characters. Yeah. The character that's just just an alpha everywhere. And then the tough guy walks in and then they're beta. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Exactly. But Nate, we should go see his show when he's around. He's so funny. I think we should meet him in Phoenix and go get some of that Bianca pizza. And then play some golf over there. You know, you're not playing golf anymore. Not till October. That's how I have to be disciplined. You know, I know. I mean, we can go. We can go to Nate's. Here it comes. Here it comes. We can go to his show and like participate or we can go and just be a bunch of bisoners. I'm so dumb when we do. Smartless is 100% organic and artisanally handcrafted by Michael Grant Terry, Rob Armjav, and Bennett Barberco.