We Might Be Drunk - Ep 115: Nate Bargatze

Episode Date: February 20, 2023

Episode 115 with Nate Bargatze, check out his special on Amazon Prime - "Hello World". Also catch Nate on the road touring near you. Fun episode with a lot of great stories.  Mark Normand: http://marknormandcomedy.com/  Sam Morril: https://www.sammorril.com/shows Nate Bargatze: https://natebargatze.com/ *Important Links* Shop: https://www.wemightbedrunkpod.com/shop Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wemightbedrunkpod http://www.bodegacatspirits.com Sponsors: Visit http://athleticgreens.com/DRUNK for a Free 1-year supply of Vitamin D This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/Drunk and get on your way to being your best self. Get the best deal on a phone at https://mintmobile.com/drunk Dress like a drunk at https://theblacktux.com/drunk Support the show, and try Honey for free at https://JoinHoney.com/ WMBD Produced by Matt Peters Recorded at Gotham Production Studios Send mail to  251 West 39th Street, 16th Fl New York, NY 10018

Hey, here we are. We might be drunk. We're back. We're doing it. Nate Bargetzi, everybody. What's shaking? Thanks, buddy. One of our faves.

This is exciting for us. It's been a while. Yeah. I haven't seen you in a while. I've seen you a couple times on the road, which is fun. Yeah. That's always fun. He just saw Chris Rock on the road.

Yeah. Oh, where at? We were in St. Louis, and he was in the same hotel, and I wasn't going to say anything, but he came over and hung with us a little bit. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, and then I ended up going to his show after my show, and it's just cool to see jokes in an arena.

Yeah. Where was it? Oh, he was in the St. Louis arena. Is he by himself? He was with Chappelle. Oh, yeah. Yeah, what do they do? Does he go, Chappelle goes last and then?

Yeah. Well, Chappelle, his private jet, there was a motor problem. So Rock was like stalling. So he did like 90 minutes. And they had Rick Ingram go up and host in between, like stalling. And Chappelle, I was like, this is like a long show. Yeah. I mean, this is, it's like probably like a four hour show.

Did he know you were there? Like, I mean, they might have had you go up oh yeah uh you beat her they just stalling for chapelle yeah i i don't know if i could be i wonder if i'll ever be the comic that can be like i gotta do an hour all right i I'll just do 90. Like, I don't know. You don't have it in you. I'm the same way. I'm like, I got to, there's a, I can do what I got. Yeah. I'm not just sitting on. Yeah, whatever they tell me to, whatever I'm like, I have to do. I'm like, I feel like if I'm doing 60 minutes, I'm like, I have 60 minutes.

Yeah. I don't feel like I have an extra minute. No, no, no, no, no. Because otherwise it just turns into like, is this anything? What's going on with this guy it just falls off a cliff the quality goes way down yeah sometimes you get those crowds where it's like you need to turn defense and offense a little bit yeah and then that buys you a few minutes yeah i'm like i have to fight him a little bit to get him and now right yeah i

don't i don't like uh you know jay used to have to do that with doing carolines. Big Jay. Carolines for Paul Mooney. Because I remember, because Paul Mooney would never. He would show up an hour late. Always late. Yeah, he would show up super late. Thank you very much, man. Appreciate it.

Don't care for fruit on my drink. No, I'm joking. I'm joking. But there, it was, yeah, he would show up like an hour. You didn't know. So you'd have to go up there. It's probably something good to learn how to do, to be honest. And it's a weird one that I don't know where you can really learn it.

You have to be in a pretty unique situation to have to learn how to do that. You have to have an older headliner who's just jaded as fuck. Yes. Who shows up an hour late. Yeah, yeah, you kind of really have to have that like uh yeah and it's a black crowd so it's like you're out of your element a little bit yeah it's good in every level yeah jay would have to i mean he had to go up there and just you know you just didn't know you didn't know i remember we went up once uh paul mooney didn't show up and then they had

uh he canceled so they knew he was canceled and then they had us you know we were doing like the show before that so they they were like look paul mooney's not coming but we have another show and then so it was just like i it might be like me veter like you know it was like just not what the people that are there to see paul mooney are there to see paul mooney and not these two not that it was like it was like a you know one of like a showcase show so it's like five white cops right yeah and five low energy ones yes yes yeah meanwhile paul mooney's whole act is shitting on white people yes and then here we are the mindset who cares they own the team yeah the mindset is just it's an adjustment. He was funny as hell, though.

Paul Mooney really was a funny dude. He was a legend. He was another dude that would do like two and a half hours, if he felt like it. Just sitting there. Yeah, maybe you get to, I don't know. I'm trying to think if you ever get to that point where you just could go up there and just talk.

I don't have that. but those guys weren't putting out specials like you i mean you're putting out a ton of specials that's true yeah so maybe if like you because you're not repeating old material no on the in my hour yeah i mean right now so right now i have uh because the special comes out next week third january 31st amazon and uh so for the new hour i did i had a uh i had like a few i had a few minutes i did not i cut out of the special so i was like switch putting that in this new one but then i i was able to do like an hour but man this this past weekend i had a couple i thought like all right i got i could an hour i can kind of do i don't really have a closer but i was like i was able to kind of figure out for this one way to have a closer and uh i had a

couple good nights where i was like all right and then i caught then the other nights i was like making i was like i'm not gonna hit 30 i mean i could do i have like a good 30 minutes that's like you know what do you don't you said the special's coming up. I mean. So I had some people come. Like you said, you know, your closer's almost there, not there. Do you want a new hour by the time a special comes out? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's very hard. It's very hard. It's hard. It was October when we taped, and so. But I mean, it's a new tour. I put all new material. You know, you put all all i put all this stuff on it uh and uh but i i think i'll have it i think i had i had the i had the problem where i had some

people travel like people came to the show they're like oh we've heard this material you're like i mean i that kind of took me by surprise yeah which was very nice but it took me surprise to be like well this i mean the special is not out and i'm in a new town right so i didn't think like i didn't think people were you know i was like well i haven't been in this town and it's two people but it still gets in your head yeah you know if two people have seen your act oh i had that one i did like i remember i did like all new stuff in louisville and i was like fuck it's like 55 minutes i don't have anything else so i just did an old bit and someone screamed out the punchline and i was like i was like oh i hate i

was so upset with myself it was veter you can sometimes you can make the announcement i think helps if you go especially when you're if they're coming and you go look it's as far as i could get with new i'm gonna just close with some but if they're aware it gets it's exciting and like you know it's like instead of because i learned if you mix it in and say you do like if you did that if you do 55 minutes and five minutes old but you mix it in and don't address it then someone goes he did a lot of old something yes and you're like no no no i did because they're not no one's timing you No one's like watching you at the time like that. So they just, if they hear one old thing, they just think, ah, he's doing a mix. I had that recently.

I did three old jokes and the whole rest of the hour is new. And somebody goes, ah, I heard it all. Heard everything. And I'm like, the rest of it's new. I've never done it here. And they're like, nah, I heard it. I was like, it was three new and three old jokes. But if you say it, then they'll go.

He was like all new. He did an old joke. Right. You could probably do 20 minutes of old at the end, but they would think it the other way. Exactly. But I got to get new stuff. The hard part of getting new stuff now is just you get busy.

I'm busy and you're – Experience. You're doing all this press to promote the special. It's hard to write. It's hard to work out and it's hard to live like go live normal. Yeah, totally. You can't be like I got this

press bit. That's not relatable. You guys do podcast interviews or do you do?'s not relatable yeah you guys do podcast interviews or do you do yeah no it drains you on your diet coke yeah he goes remember he goes this guy and i'm just trying to stretch it out into like a 30 minute bit yeah i'll remember those old days where you're like i got 20 i can headline i can just go i just stretch it out i'll do a little crowd work i'll talk slower never work that. That's why I love Veeder because I remember when we were all brand new comics

and I'd be like, everyone would be like, how much time do you have? Everyone would be like, I got 45. They'd be open micers, but they say that shit. I'd ask Veeder and he'd be like,

19. Yeah. I love that. You never have as much. And this new hour, I thought I, because I did an hour one night and then it was like and then i mean

it was like two nights later i just the grips you have to come with to go like i mean i'm i'm lucky if it's a solid 25 minutes like when you really if i really look at it if the audience is unreal we can do an hour yeah that's but that's the thing is you got to play like the worst you're like what is this for the worst audience yeah because i was i got i had the same thing over the weekend this is my first like theater run of shows and i was kind of like wow first few nights i'm really ripping and then i had one the worst show was at the end and they weren't even bad but they were the worst of that show right and you're like this joke's got to be better this joke's got to be better you need those yeah you need them yeah you're gonna yeah you learn like they're all great especially like at when they're coming to see you every show's gonna

be great so but you need to know which ones are bad right because you can't just go they're all great and they're not bad bad is not a good you know if some audiences listen to this like you're not saying bad but it's like comparably like some places are going to you know some it's a thursday night or it's a sunday night or it's saturday or like and it doesn't matter whichever ones can be weird or they could laugh quicker or whatever it is but you gotta you gotta know because if you're not aware of that then i think i think if the second you kind of become aware of stuff unaware of stuff is when it all ends. But also too good a crowd can be a problem. You see that?

When they're too good, you get confident in bits that are weak. I mean, there was that peak Dane Cook moment where people were just like, woo, like after his bits. I'm like, that's not good for fucking comedy. No, no, no. No. But you've got to be aware of it. If you're aware of it, gotta if you're aware of it i think you can

you know what's happening maybe you realize all right i gotta uh i don't know not do arena you know like do your arena thing and then do it you did it and then back out of it and then go back to regular i mean that was like steve martin i feel like he just got too big yeah you can get too big for the what it is right but if you set the tone of what you're doing to uh you know then you can do it forever like i i started like a burr look after the i talked about this today but with opie and anthony when he had the rant the philly rant uh i remember going to watch him at caroline's and like people yelling stuff out and he was like i'm not doing that like burr was a very good he set the tone to be like no no i'm i'm gonna do new stuff and like i'm gonna and now it's like no one even would ever yell out the city

like it just would be weird if someone did that so it's he set the tone for what his show is and being a comic and you're coming to see this act and that's what you're coming to see and if you set the tone for something else you can get yourself because you know you start you can set the tone too long where you just kind of go like well i'll just do this or i'll all right i'll roast them for what you know it's like well quickly that becomes that's what you're doing yeah and then you're that guy and then it's like then that's tough to get to get out to get out of because then you got to get people back right well you're like i don't do that i mean we have any shows that we do in new york would be like some high energy guy and then you would go up

after and be like hey everybody i was like you made them come to you always that was something that i remember we all did a show once and everyone bombed except you. It was at Caroline's. Because you, I think they were just this awful, terribly behaved crowd. And you just got quiet. Yeah. And it was like rough for the first few minutes. But then by the end they were like, oh, so you could tell they respected you?

Yeah. And it was like a cool thing. No, I mean, everyone bombed, but you were the only one who I was like, oh, he didn't pander. Right. Yeah. You know, and I thought it was cool. Yeah. Well, I learned that because I did it.

I did pander on once following like Rory Scoville. Funny guy. Had like a, you know, festival, like Bridgetown. Bridgetown. And, you know, he goes on stage and he does his thing where he's being Rory and then I kind of try to go up there with that same energy and it like went really bad and uh and I knew not to he did a gay southern accent yeah yeah yeah well it's like he's you know because there you're at a you're at a festival it's like comics it's like they love like you know it's like

they love that it's weird and like all this kind of stuff so you're like oh i'll try to be weird and and then i i bombed i talked to jay larson after he's like yeah because you try to act like you were rory and like and uh i was like yeah and i remember and you know so it's like you learn to like go i'll just die with if i'm gonna die i'll die with what i know what to do absolutely here here because it hurts to bomb as not you oh it's i mean you've you really you really you don't want to pander and eat shit that's the worst yeah you really stick your neck out and then it's just like i remember i i think of that set a lot is like okay you can you can there's ways to change gears and and grab them but there's ways to change gears as you.

And you did that. That was like what was a cool moment, especially when we were younger comics. Yeah, you learned which material, like, you know, it's like I never had dirty material, but it was like, all right, but it's like I had marriage stuff. So it's like, all right, if they were this, I could be like, I'll just do marriage, you know.

Or I'll do, if they're young, it's like you just go, all right, I'll do, I don't know, stuff not being married. You just end up kind of doing. It's interesting to get to, I mean, as you're seeing, there's a point where you're both getting, I mean, selling out and people are there to see you. But it's like stuff has to change because of that because you know that they know you. Yeah. but it's like stuff has to change because of that because you know that they know you yeah and uh and you know and trying to stay good knowing that they know you because you know you can get laughs you can see how comics could become not good because they're gonna laugh where you're like all right if i could just make that they like me yes so you can get a point to where

you're not being funny but you're like i'm just i know they like me so i'll just make sure they keep liking me for the next hour right but it's like if you watch it outside of that room or that whatever it's like yeah but joke is like an a with your crowd and then it goes to a b you're like oh that joke sucks because this is my crowd and it was still a b so i gotta work on that one that's why the seller is great for us when we're off the road because we you know you go up and you're kind of like that one didn't do that well and you can't just blame look yeah they're a little younger than they were a couple years

ago but you gotta blame yourself but you're a dude that's on the road so much I mean like you're a dude I ask for advice a lot like I'd see you I remember I saw you in Springfield Missouri and I was in the club and you were in the theater and I went to watch your show I let him know that i met him come i wouldn't talk to him i talked to him in a separate room but but i was like oh shit this and and i remember you

like you were on the tour bus and you were like this is you gotta hit every city yeah that's like that's always been your attitude and it's a lot of comics don't have the endurance for that no no they don't and i mean you can see look you as you know you see the comics that can uh it looks like they're touring and selling out a lot and then it's like well go look at where they're playing and like is it new york seattle chicago you know in la you know kind of the major cities like there and then you know and look some comics don't want to go play in you know you don't want to go to jonesborough arkansas or you don't want to go do this stuff but if you look at like gaffigan you're like that guy's built a wealth of fans that you're for whatever it's

worth you can't go that you're not selling more tickets than that guy so and as comics you know where it's like comic you know sometimes people can have like the industry love and all this kind of stuff and there's a you know and it's like not it doesn't relate to money but i would imagine it would be like a billionaire meeting a guy worth 50 million dollars you know where it's like he's like no that's great dude i think that's awesome that you have that much money you are rich you're not him that's a good and there's a different kind of like you know it's like that guy's like i'm gonna go to my plane and fly home he's like no you're gonna fly in a private in someone else's private plane that's

great i own this plane like right there's a way that you can and it is obviously i'm not i'm not talking about money in that way but it's just talking about like getting the fans like that to be like gaffigan can go everywhere like gaffigan can take chances to go he went to russia i mean he went to like he can do whatever and go perform everywhere and seeing it russia yeah you gotta draw the line i'm not doing that ukraine go there now they got money yeah uh louis had the show that friday that the war started yeah oh yeah you know some stubborn comic would have been like well fuck we're doing the show dude yeah i mean look at louis louie goes around and can go everywhere.

There's a way that you want to be able to go. To be able to go play everywhere in the whole country is – I mean, you see that it's not easy. It's not easy to have all of them be fans. Sure. It takes a lot of work. It's always worth something going i feel like there's a way to go you want to go for it when you know that someone will not go for it and then they're telling you why like well i don't want to be on the road that much and you're like

yeah yeah because you can't because i don't look at anything as like you're not making that choice you're not making that choice because you really don't want to be on the road that much right you're not making that choice you're not making that choice because you really don't want to be on the road that much right you're making the choice because you can't and so you but you say it and well i don't you know i don't want to be gone that much and you're like no you would like to be gone that much right you you went as far this is where you can stop and you could they could yeah but that is so much more work to then go past that and to go everywhere you're justifying it people i have a sober friend and i'm always like well i drink but i can always uh i get my shit done he's like you're justifying yeah it's like a sober thing that they always calls me out on like i get everything done and

i drink and he's like yeah yeah i'm like i don't really get that hung over and if i do i push through and he's like you see you can't stop he's always giving me shit same thing with the road like oh that's you gotta you gotta connect i don't do those gigs and you're like you want to do that gig would be going up in the city when we're doing spots it's like you know i don't want to go to danger fields like right you're like yeah yeah because you i mean you can't or you know it's going to be hard and so if if you're not going to something that's hard or pushing yourself, working out would be, if you're not pushing yourself to a limit of uncomfortableness. I'd rather go to Rush than Dangerfields, honestly.

That was a pretty rough room. It's the same way. It's the same thing. That was a tough room. I remember the velvet seats. Bridge and tunnel. I remember they would have you do 25 minutes in there. Yes. And the host would often forget. have you do 25 minutes in there. Yes.

And then the host would often forget. So you're doing like 30. You end up doing like 32. Right. There's like eight people in there. And you can't wait to get off. You're like, where is that guy? Dude, I was dying.

Because I remember going at first, I'm like, 25 minutes. You know how much work I'm going to get done in here? And then I'd just be bombing for 25 minutes. Yes. I remember one time there's eight people in there. I watched three people. They get walked in to sit down during my set and they said they give it like one joke and they're just like and they just walked out just humiliating you're doing a long enough time that they

think about it and leave and it's just one comic they book a flight back home to cleveland that that club had a grand piano on stage and by the end of the set like you know you start by standing next to it then you put an elbow on it and you're bombing so much by the end of it you're like on the piano that was uh yeah I mean that was a tough room because it got it got hard towards the end I mean no one was going to it and so you'd go up and it is it's such a long time to be going up and just be like what are we you know those old sets were epic there there's like dangerfield 80s sets when you hosted those are like those are incredible i don't think i you know i've been here i was here a long time but i don't know if i was ever here where i saw that room be it was people started going to it

towards the end before i right when i was close to moving is when i felt like people started going back to that room like they made a you know like a push yeah but uh i i don't i don't ever remember danger fields being uh i remember the i mean the comic strip was oh yeah pounding when i was here that's where i started yeah that was the club that still can be great i've done some private shows and it's so electric. And you're like, I get it. This room's amazing. The room is electric.

The acoustics, it's like a perfect. I mean, Seinfeld did the special there. Right. Sandler did parts of the special there. And I think that gave it like a boost. And then I think they just threw it away again. Yeah. The head shots. Is it still going?

Yeah, it's still going. Yeah. I go there every. Is New York Comedy Club at Eastville? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got a show there on Wednesday if you want to pop in.

Yeah. No pressure. All right. I guess that's tomorrow. I'll still go. Come by. But yeah, I was just at Zany's in Nashville, which is weird to be in Nashville and you were on the road.

I know. But Lucy, who runs Zany's, was like, I saw the Nate Howard's, his best one yet. So I'm excited for this one. Yeah, I really enjoyed this. This was material I felt like I was excited to do it. You know, like where you feel like you have an act that you're like oh man i'm like every city i went to i was like excited to wow i enjoyed it and i was almost like when i taped the special it wasn't like i was so over it you know there's be parts i was kind of

overtelling but uh there was a lot of it i still really liked you didn't get bored with the hour i did not get yeah and i did a lot of shows but i really and it was fun it's like i'm trying to find that you know because you always in your act you have jokes that are you know you have some parts that you're like yeah you know it's like it's there but you're like i'm just saying it like i don't really enjoy it and people can enjoy it's not that the audience doesn't, but you just, you're like, it's not as fun as this part. And so like, I try to like,

that was the closest one where I feel like I had the most fun. And like, that's why I'm trying to do this new hour because you're like, how can I have like, I should want to be like, I can't wait to get in every part of my act. Yeah.

And I, you know, it's like, it's hard to do though. How do you do it, man? How do you come up with so much material yeah you're i don't know you push it out it's incredible yeah you're a tank i mean and uh i don't know how do you make the decision to go from netflix to amazon for this one uh it was amazon amazon's making a big push like a comedy uh push into comedy and the and they were very excited and they wanted me to come over there and kind of be the uh i guess start of that and so they're they're really kind of doing

a thing where they want to do stand-up comedy and uh i think stand-up comedies they're showing it's doing really good there now all right uh so they want to be a i guess, a player in that game. And so they were very excited for that. Pretty good pay. That was good. Pretty good dough, I assume. To be honest, yeah, well, I don't know. I did not. It is.

But I took less. Oh. It was... In exchange for more ownership? I own it. Whoa. That's worth it. That's a hard one.

It was... Yeah. So I licensed it with them, and then I own it, and then I can do it. So yeah, owning it was a very big reason. Huge. And it was... And I do think Amazon is... They're going to make a big push huge and it was uh and i do think amazon is uh they're gonna make a big push and they're gonna to be a part of and do some new it's yeah yeah it's nervous like going

over because it's like netflix has the audience and netflix changed my life and i have nothing and i love netflix and it's uh so it's yeah netflix is awesome uh but going to amazon was it was just like where i was at that you know it's like all right let me just see if you know if i i think this will hopefully be the right way and owning it was big i did want to own it hell yeah i wanted to you know like having it it's weird because owning it like you know how you don't ever you don't ever get like it's always hard to get your own special when you're like yeah when you take the special then you want to be you think they're gonna be like here it is you can have it and then you can

post it like you know you know you don't own it but you just and they're always yeah i don't think you ever really get it you always like there's like a way that you know they give it to someone for streaming it or like so people can look at it before they watch it. Oh, and they say it's on Paramount Plus, especially. I'm like, just dump it in the toilet. Just put it in the – they don't even have fucking Yellowstone on Paramount Plus. They have the other Taylor Sheridan shows. Oh, really?

Yeah. If you want to watch one of his other shows and 900 comedy specials that Comedy Central flush. Yeah. Give it a go wasn't that your last straw with comedy central when they said you couldn't clip your own show yeah i'm doing that youtube from now on yeah on comedy central's youtube channel but they let me clip it yeah there you go but that was you know that was a fight even they're tough it was you know what they're always i think comics are always a step ahead with with everything because we're in you know the clubs every night so we know who's funny before they do yeah and we know kind of

what's working before they do and i saw the clips were working on this week at the comedy seller and we were just burning topical jokes because i'm not going to hold on to a headline joke and they wouldn't let us post it and i was kind of like what are you doing and it'll help you you think you think i want to write a joke? I want to write like five topical jokes that are funny jokes that are only going to air on TV. We're like three people are going to watch it. Yeah. While, you know, folding laundry or beating off in the background.

Like no one's paying attention to this. Yeah. No. Yeah. Beat off to my YouTube channel. Exactly. That's what I say. Yeah.

Yeah. They've made some mistakes mistakes but where are they now yeah they laid off a lot of good people it's not a good it's not a good story it's not like a happy story you showed them though well it's scary because you never know what the new thing is like when we started comedy central was the end all be all be-all, or maybe HBO. And now you're like, fuck that. And then you're like, HBO, I don't even know if I would, whatever. And then who knows if Netflix will go away.

That's why you tour. That's why you tour. That's why you tour. And you set up a good tour. Like I ask Gary a lot. I'm like, would Nate do this? I'll do that sometimes. I'm like, what does Nate do?

Because I just trust what you would do. He'd go clean and pray. I'll do that sometimes. I'm like, what does Nate do? Because I just trust what you would do. You'd go clean and pray. But, you know, you bring a good crew with you on the road. Your tour manager is like a childhood friend.

You surround yourself with good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's, you want to create the hang and the, like, it's being, you want to be funny. Like, you're, you know, going up and doing club spots and hanging out in New York city.

Like that was like, that's where we were all being funny all the time and making a lot of jokes. And, uh, and you, it's hard to do that when you start touring, cause you're gone really. And so you bring all comics and I bring two comics to open and it's,

uh, just to, you know, so it's, we have a fun, like after every show, like we open and it's uh just to you know so it's we have a fun like after every show like we we're it's a lot of jokes it's a lot of like you know being funny and it's just trying to almost that you know that cellar table vibe it's like you got to kind of take it with you because otherwise you're going to be out there alone and then you're and that's going to be easy to kind of just get lost in your own self. Totally. Because you're getting told you're great all the time or all this stuff,

and you need to be with comics that are, you know, I don't know. It's like we've all known each other forever. Right. And so you get to hang out with them. And then I always think about the show I'm bringing, where I'm bringing comics that are like everybody's on TV and everybody's done stuff. And so the show that these people get to go watch is pretty great. And you're like you want to – it's like – yeah.

And then everybody's got to be clean on my show obviously. But it's like so like with clean comedy is like you know we just did mike vecchione's special and uh one of my favorites yeah hilarious so it was like making his special and like the crowd getting to see him and stuff it's like i have an audience that a lot of times are some a lot of people don't care about being clean or not clean or whatever uh a lot of fans that are fans of you guys you know that come up and say stuff and tell me that and but then there's fans that are there because i am clean and so like you're trying it's like to give the someone like mike vecchione to like a clean comic or like you know he was always kind of basically clean like so it's like to give that audience to see him

it's like they just don't always going to see that level of comic yes that they would get to see and there's so many guys vecchione is hilarious and he's been hilarious for 20 years follow mike vecchione on social media where i have his special come out probably in uh march a phenomenal he's also his album uh what's the worst kind of thoughtful is that the name of his album as well which is also yeah muscle confusions yeah he's a 10 minute joke on the bus that's one of my favorite jokes oh really he's so funny and such a great guy but there's so many guys like this who are so funny and underrated and just silently killing all over the country but the industry kind of won't throw him a bone that's why it's great when guys like you or other headliner comics can well he's a headliner mike but he's well yeah you don't

but like 61,000 followers on instagram his joke uh i love his joke about how he signed up to be a private detective online yeah and they uh and they just took his money and he thought either i just got ripped off or this is my first case that's amazing yeah great great he has so many jokes like that he's got stuff i, he murders when he goes out. And that's what's great is because I have to follow that, too. So it helps me. It makes you, like, stay. You have to be good.

I mean, because they're watching a great show before I get out there. And so you've got to live up to the hype and be better and like not be better but like be as good as these guys yes there was another vecchione that's that guy's funnier played hockey he's a he's a pro hockey player but mike vecchione our mike vecchione has a thicker neck somehow this is that's crazy that he plays for the phil Oh, weird. That's true. Holy shit. Mike McGill, Philadelphia comic. Damn. He has so many good jokes, and he's also just a great dude. I mean, he's one of my favorite people as well.

Oh, yeah, he's the best. But, yeah, I mean, that's the thing. I want it to be a good show, too. Vita is with me all the time. I love Gary Vita. Vita's unbelievable. I mean, the first night of the tour, we were in New Orleans, and Amy Schumer and her husband Chris come out,

and they're just watching Gary, and they're both like bent over dying laughing and that's such a great feeling that you're like this is the dude i bring he's just murdering just great you're naming everybody the all of them think they're doing pretty good and you keep going i mean another guy nowhere nowhere in this business lucky to to be getting by. Lives at the YMCA probably. I don't know. I don't know what he's going to do. Yeah. I don't know.

I just don't see how he makes it through. Hopeless. Oh, yeah. I'm going to be on the street in a week. Is that a set list or a suicide note? I don't know. Sorry, Gary. We're pushing for you.

Go book Gary. Please, someone book gary both you and sal he's got like a great career but just saying i want these people to be more well known no i know what you mean they in in we know how funny they are we know yeah well it's a lot of comics i mean now and it skipped over a lot of comics but that's the thing dude if young comics like if you just go on the road i mean not go on the road but even you're in the city wherever you're at just go and write jokes and be funny and like that stuff if you stay that way you build your you know what is it saying like a

house on stilts or like what like uh what is the house on uh i don't know katrina i don't know. Katrina. I don't know. You got to build high up. It's, I don't know. A house on sand or something like that? No, what's the saying of your house? Now we're really getting away from what he said. Something about stilts. But if you're building, you should build your house on concrete or something, not on stilts. Maybe that's it. But I don't know if that's the saying at all.

Something about Gary being short. Take this as far as, yeah. It's weird that people don't know if that's the saying at all gary being short take this as far as yeah it's weird that but people don't know that i blame back i blame bad comics for katrina and uh but like if you you built something all you know like concrete that can't be taken away from you your material yes is all that you that cannot be it's your worth it's your it's uh the back what makes you it's like it's the thing that people don't have like material cannot be taken away from you see our first two specials on paramount plus where yeah it got taken away from us and then you build more material yeah so it's like that's the more you get the more you can't once you learn how to build it even though it feels like you're

never gonna you know it's it's impossible to There's never, you think there's a solution. There's not a solution. Okay, is this it here in Matthew 7? Jesus said everyone who hears his words and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock. Yeah. There's no stilts in there, but I got you. All right. There you go.

I like it. That counts. Okay. It's in the Bible too, so. There you go. God forbid y'all read some of that sometime. Take a gander at it. I have a joke Bible on my toilet.

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reliant on yes so many other like you put your whole career is and and they can be great actors and get past that people want that and they like that thing. But it's like writing a show. Like, you know, you go audition for stuff and you're like, dude, I don't. It's up to these people if they like me or not. Yeah. And versus if I just do my act or if I write my own TV shows, it's like, you know, you're just a little more in control. Hell yeah.

And then they need to go to you because it's hard to create stuff. There's not that many people that can create stuff. Not just that, but comics really help each other. And I was talking to a musician friend of mine the other night, and he was telling me, like, yeah, we don't really do that in our world. Well, like, yeah, they're not really pushing each other. Comics push each other. Like, Nate's producing a friend of his special.

You know, we're posting clips of comics we like. We're promoting comics. We're doing each other's's podcasts i don't think every world is like that and and we're creating shit and not reliant waiting on industry to tap us auditioning i get auditions now and i'm like why i hate i turn them all down yeah i've never gotten one i never got one either i even auditioned for your show didn't get that either but never got one i was I even auditioned for your show. Didn't get that either. But never got one. Oh, I remember that. I was hungover. Yeah.

When I'm hungover, I can still do shows. You auditioned to play me. Sorry. Yeah, you auditioned to play me. That's why they brought you in, just to get, like, if I didn't work out, they were like, don't worry, that show didn't go anywhere. Lewis Black did that. Lewis Black auditioned to play himself in a pilot and he didn't get cast in it.

Your audition was tough. I had this whole thing about stilts that didn't work. He goes, build on stilts. I go, it doesn't make sense. I go, it's definitely not the writing. It was doing that when I did shoot that pilot and everybody auditioned for that. It's eye-opening to see who comes in for it. It's pretty crazy. It's famous people comes in for it. It's pretty crazy.

It's famous people. That's wild. Any names you can mention? I'm trying to think. I mean, Kristen Alley I met. Oh, Kristen Alley? Kristen Alley. R.I.P.

Yeah. But she was playing my mom. Wow. I mean, my parents that we ended up casting were Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith. Oh, wow. That was my parents in the pilot. Is that weird to just put them back together? Yeah.

Well, we were trying to do it, and they were just professionals. It's pretty fun to see that world be professionals. When we shot that pilot, so we in front of live audience uh and uh kurt would like when you know because they're coming and throwing you jokes like it's fun a multicam is very fun in the for a comedian because it's a lot of like on the thing like hey we're gonna change this joke you're gonna do this blah blah whatever right and then uh but kurt would would i mean he would lay down on the couch in the living room couch the whole live audience is watching and he just closed his eyes and just lay there and you're like the comfortableness

that this guy could have and just pick there's people there it'd be like if you went on if you just laid on a couch on the stage that's crazy and you and just and then they're like all right ready to go and he's like all right and he gets up and just goes and does it i mean he's been around he's a great actor robocop that's right fucking killer in that movie terrifying but he but these we were talking about mike vecchione as like a murderer these are amazing actors that may not be like you know household names for everybody but think about how many actors there are, too, that could just knock your socks off.

Yeah. Maybe the average person doesn't know. Oh, yeah. Totally. They would do it. You would see it. We had one girl. I don't remember her name.

She was British. She did British and an English accent. Wow. In the same audition, just switched it up. Wait a minute. British and English? Not an American accent. Oh. And the same audition, just switched it up. Wait a minute, British and English? Not an American accent. Oh, I see, I see.

British American. So she did British accent first, and then she did like a Southern American accent. That's incredible. And then you're like, just doing it in front of your face, and you're like, oh my gosh. What's his face from Home Alone?

The tall... Daniel Alone? The tall. Daniel Stern? Daniel Stern. He came in. How's he doing? He's hilarious. He came in. He was, yeah. He is hilarious.

I'm just a programmer, by the way. Oh, really? Yeah, fun fact. Wow. He came in and he was great. He was great. It was, yeah, it was like, he's just, it's him. Right.

Like, it's like, I think he's a little crazier now as he's gotten older you know like q anon guy yeah i don't know if he's that well that randy quaid is was one that i did think of and uh great actor yeah but it was like but it was i think it was right when he was where it was like oh he's like gone it's flipping yeah it's it's it's even not even like his beliefs you're like no no i he was like oh he's like gone it's flipping yeah it's it's it's even not even like his beliefs you're like no no i think it's like he's you know something behind the eyes yeah the guy he plays in another teen movie like i think he's become that dude who oh oh exactly the dad on that yeah that's true i can see that he's got the weird pilot the helmet on yeah from the 40s yeah no he's a great actor, though, man.

I mean, and he's around for fucking ever. You look back, you're like, this dude's in movies in, like, the early 70s. I know, I know. You know? Yeah. It's so crazy. But just the fact that he had a TV show pilot thing is insane that that was happening. Yeah, I mean, I've written a bunch of TV shows.

None of them go. That was the only one where he shot a pilot. You're in a place where you don't need it. Yeah. none of them go they are that was the only one we shot a pilot you're in a place where you don't need it yeah i mean i still i i want to do one just but it's like now i'm gonna tell you it gets it's nice when you it's a lot of work uh but it's something but it's it's it's uh you know i mean we're all seinfeld guys so we're all like that like we want what he did and uh all right i mean i you know i do it's like seeing ray romano like seeing all those guys do he did and uh all right i mean i you know i do it's like seeing ray romano like seeing all those guys do these shows and uh so i want to do that uh whether it happens i don't know but it's you try shooting the pilot was i mean it was fun it was like

you're it's just so different yeah and uh but it was very fun it was it was did you think it while you're doing it you did you think it was going to go? Yeah. I mean, you know, when you walk out, dude, it's like, you know, it was just called the Nate Bargetti Show, and you're seeing. I mean, A, seeing the people audition for it is insane. Because it's people that you know. And it's people that you are like, oh, my gosh.

Like, I can't believe. Like, this guy's famous. Yeah. And then they're there. And then Shooter McGavin came in. Wow. He did. And like and then they're like, oh, everybody's like they're a big fan.

Yeah. And like they're so all these people come in and he came in from shooting the he was in the Dwayne Johnson TV show like whatever the rock show ballers or whatever yeah ballers yeah and so it's it's all these dudes and you're like you can't believe because you just you know as a comic we always feel like we're just like yeah like we're i don't know that we're going to be asked to leave every room and so and they have to be nice to you you're the guy yeah they come in and you're and you're sitting there and they're saying stuff and then uh i remember uh katie azleton who we did she played she played my wife in it but i did not read with her at first because i was like nervous i didn't want to read because a i was like i don't want them not like i'm who knows if i'm awful at this so i don't want to be bad and then

they don't get the part because they're like ah like she didn't look like she wasn't that good and you're like no she was awesome like i am a train wreck you're so much more considerate than the average comedian most people yeah she sucks it gives a shit oh i felt and so i didn't read with her but i didn't know that whole world was like she was coming in to read with me like that you know you know your level of audition where sometimes you go and you're like all right no one from the show is going to be in there yeah and that's one audition and then auditions like the producers are in their room then the auditions like well you're reading with the person in the thing yeah so you know like all right you're in a

small group totally that's only going to be reading with those people right and so then i was like i didn't want to read with her and then uh like i talked to her afterwards and she was like oh i mean really like kind of taken back by it because it was it was supposed to be she's reading with me because she's a big time actress and like so it wasn't like you know she was supposed to come in and just read alone and i was like i don't i don't want to do it i i didn't do it on purpose i didn't know that yeah and so she thought it was like a bad thing and i was like it. I didn't do it on purpose. I didn't know that. And so she thought it was like a bad thing. And I was like, oh, no, I didn't know I was supposed to be doing that. What network was this on?

ABC. We were at Fox, then ABC. It would have been on ABC. It would have came out right before COVID. Yeah, we did an episode on spanking. And I regret that a little bit uh just because it was just because it was like you gotta when you make a show you're making it like you know they show it to people and you know in your head you're thinking like all right we'll

do a show where the daughter does get spanked and you know trying to try to do something where it's like instead of like trashing spanking like talk about you do something where it's, like, instead of, like, trashing, spanking, like, talk about, you know, whatever. And it's just, like, too, it's not fun. It's, and for that to be the first thing they see. That was the pilot. That was the pilot. A little racy for you. Yeah, yeah.

It was a, I just wish I wouldn't have done that. I wish I'd done like, I don't know, done something more just fun. Did you get notes while you were doing it? Uh, yeah, you get notes. I mean, they, you do a, when you do a run through, I mean, it's the ABC, the president of ABC and all of them, they just come sit in chairs and you do, and you do the whole thing in front of them. Was that stressful?

Uh, yeah, yeah. I mean, uh yeah yeah i mean you go i mean they then they go give you notes after that and i told them i was like i because i was a you know a creator executive producer on it and everything so i'm supposed to be in every kind of notes but i was like i don't want to go up because i was like i wanted to give them the freedom to be like i stink like if they want to say i'm terrible i want them to be like okay that's okay they can say i'm terrible yeah but what do you do with that when they say if they would i mean they can you have a thing where they can uh cast you out of it where like you end up wouldn't that just well then you'd be like so whitney's uh whitney cummins show uh no she didn't get cast out of it but like she had those two shows yeah whitney and then the two broke girls so you

just become that where you're the creator and like she was on two broke girls was she cast out of that no no but she created that show i think and so like i mean she's made like she's done great uh but like you would just be like that kind of situation where you're just not in it but you can get cast out like you can't want that wouldn't that shatter you uh i mean it would it wouldn't it wouldn't like because as a comic it would be hilarious to go tell everybody that i was terrible like i would look at it like that where i would be like man how funny would that be to go you wait your whole life just to be cast out of this but i think it would still hurt it would crush it would crush me and hurt but it's like i it wouldn't i i wouldn't spiral like i think with comedy you just have i can still go

on stage i'm not gonna spiral out of it like i mean this was written where you're like it's gonna be tough to cast me out of it and i didn't and you write it to your strength yes you're writing it yes i'm being very protected. I'm making sure like, yeah, there was no like, I was like, I'm not like, there's no crying. I'm not going to do like, there's, you know, there's no anything that involves like crazy acting. Like, I don't want a bunch of big laugh. Like, I don't have to laugh. Right. Like, I'm not, I'm writing it very protective of myself.

The way you deliver. Yes. And I also am a believer that if like, you're writing your own show, like like any comic can do that it's what you look like on stage like you could do it if you write it in your are you uncomfortable are you going to be awkward are you going to be you know what do you what does it feel like and and i did find out when abc when i didn't go do that notes they were like oh they wanted me up there because they were like no no we he was all like they were they i did it i was i was doing great and i mean i would ask a lot like i would you know you got a lot of people around you greg garcia who created uh my name is earl and a bunch of others so me

and him have come very close and he uh danielle sanchez was the showrunner and she brought in greg which is funny because greg was helping us and she brought in Greg. And I didn't know Greg at that time. So it's like a dude that comes in and punches up. But he's doing a lot more than that. He's held us with the structure of the joke. But I don't know who he is at first. And I'm like, who does this guy think he is? And then you're like, oh, this guy's created five shows.

My name is Earl. Yes, dear. Oh, wow. I mean, he's created five. And what was he like? What kind of notes did you give him? He's the, A, if you ever, what was he what kind of notes he's the hey if you ever you're y'all should meet him he's the best one of the best writers i've ever been around

i mean it's uh he's a kind of a phenom kind of person uh very down to earth very normal and like he's just great at like making a show so i would ask him and because he would tell me danielle would tell me like just be like yo am i terrible like am i and they would like they're just they're like no no it's like you you know that you're all right the problem is not going to be because i'm awful at acting like if you don't get picked up it could be for whatever reason but it's not because i'm awful right but in a show too but if someone is bad they can't you have to cast them out so like we had a girl play our daughter and like there's a moment of where you're thinking like if they go and like have any conversation about her which there was a little where you're like so you have to fire this

girl oh you're i mean there's a point there where you're like i'd quit i'd just quit the show like i like i'm not going to do that. It was worse than spanking a little girl. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we hit her on the show. But yeah, it's your. But I mean, having to like, you know, you meet that girl's family and like the girl's funny and she's sweet.

And were you at the fire? No, no, no, no, no, no. No, we argue because we were like we're not wow like because you're just going like there's no way that's that would be a problem whatever it's like they're giving you notes and stuff like that but you're like it can't be getting rid of like that's insane yeah george rock was in it oh he was great who would he playing it uh daughter yeah yeah yeah you know they make you cast uh he was uh he he played in there's a golf uh shop that we go in and he played in that and so he would have he was uh like he was like a guy that grew up in the he would have been a guy that grew up in the town and You're a golfer, too.

You're like one of the younger golfer comedians. Santino plays golf. You play golf. I remember when we were in Ireland together, all of us were just so freaking fun. That was such a fun time. Oh, that was great. But you were the one guy that was like, where's Nate? He was like, he's golfing 30 miles away. We're like, what?

7 a.m. Yeah. I had to go golf with Rory Scovelilles buddy because rory was supposed to come and got amy's movie and couldn't go all right and so his buddy was coming to play with us so then rory just left and was like and so i just played with his buddy from high school all weekend but his buddy was awesome so it's hilarious but he was like yeah it was funny to be like i gotta go you know what's crazy a guy we go uh one day we go play at one of the courses. In a lot of courses over there, they don't have driving ranges like we do here. It's like you just go play.

So I'm playing, and I start talking to this one kid, and he went to my high school. Whoa. I mean, he was much younger, but what are the odds over there to be randomly golfing at some course, and this kid went to my high school? That's wacky. Yeah. Let me just ask this about the TV show, and then I'll leave it alone. What would you rather, though?

Would you rather have the show not go or the show go and fail? I mean, if you have a choice. If you have a choice. Look at Mulaney. Yeah. If you have a choice, I'd rather shoot the pilot in the show not go and and fail but it's uh just because it it just doesn't matter I mean obviously it did not hurt Mulaney no he's great but I you know it's like I don't know it's like I mean the part of it is you want to see if you can win them over. I mean, that's the idea of it.

Maybe you get a cult following there and that helps set up another show, right? Yeah, it could. Is there great shows that lasted one season? Yeah, yeah. True. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I don't know.

That's a tough question because it's like you would, I mean, if you knew for sure it was going to fail, I mean, I don't know why you'd even do it. I mean, I'm glad I shot the pilot because it's like I did get to learn that. That was a lot. When you see your name on everything and you realize how many people are working and that audience is there. And then it's like when I walk, they introduce you like they introduced like, you know, in Seinfeld and they walk out. And then I went out and talked on the microphone. I almost started crying at the microphone.

And I never had that really in my career. Wow. But it was such a, like, I can't believe, like, you're like, I can't believe I'm here. I can't believe I'm going to walk through a door that's fake and go to a kitchen. And when they make the house, and you tell them how you want the house,

and they have a newspaper that's the Tennessean, which is our local newspaper. I mean, they have like the Titans calendar as a magnet on the football. I mean, every detail looks like you're at a home in Nashville. You're Tennessee royalty at this point. Yeah, that's what I was going to tell them. But it's like everything. There's a show that goes on. But all that stuff is, you know what uh but it's like everything there's a show that goes with it but it's it's all that stuff is you know i mean yeah like we we obviously love seinfeld and we talk about seinfeld all the

time and like being able to create something that you're like you can walk me in i remember in uh clusterfest yes they had that it's always sunny too they did patty's pub yeah so yeah i i never watched always sunny my sister's a giant fan of that maybe the best sitcom of the last 20 years yeah yeah and it's like it was uh but like with seinfeld is that when you walk in there and you see that couch and you see you know the thing it's like i want that like you want to create that and like if you saw everybody love raymond's set like you like i i i want to do that like i want to go big i want to go after something big like that otherwise it's like i don't know it's like making a that's what you do with your stand-up so why yeah i take your foot off the gas with this shit well i mean it's different it's it's different but i'm like, why not take a home run swing?

Like, why make a show if you're not trying to make a great show? It's... Where I'm at in my career now, it's like I kind of look at it as, like, all right, if I want to do a show, it's like I want to do it. I want to try to swing for the fences, or I'd rather not do it. Totally. Do you know Romano or any of those guys where you would say, hey, I'm making a sitcom, any advice?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, the last one i made one it didn't go was with phil rosenthal uh and so he created a religion but uh i know ray pretty well and so i when i first did it when i first was doing one i talked to him about it and uh there was a part he said to me where it was i thought i was gonna like i really because we we had a pilot like fallon this is one that Fallon was doing. So it was a while ago. So Fallon produced it?

Yeah. Yeah. Fallon produced it. And Letterman produced Ramona. Yeah. So that's like an old school kind of setup. So it was an old school setup. So, I mean, it was like, this is where you think stuff is like, you're like, wow, this

is lining up to be like exactly like everybody was dreaming. And then, so by the time mine ray's show came on he was 37 years old by the time i went on i would have been probably 37 years old and then fallon's doing it and letterman did his so i had all these things and i'm like man it's happening and then it just doesn't happen and so but you learn stuff in that moment sure you will have these giant things that you think if this fails like it's over i'm done and then you just you just keep you go back to stand-up and then you're standing up it took off around that time yeah well you but i mean everything else go but i'm saying you you have these moments where there's there's the longer you do it the more you realize you there's the you can't put much pressure on every one thing

there's just not any pressure on it because you don't know what the thing's going to be you don't know what is the thing that's going to be the thing that makes it like go but if you're around and you keep putting stuff out eventually you know you're you're getting your audiences by word of mouth essentially you're getting your audiences by word of mouth essentially you're getting this someone's going to watch this guy whether it's clips or they're coming to see live and then they come back and see live if you put on a great show then then you gotta look at your shows are gonna double you know you just did eight shows at zany's or something which is in 10 so that's that's i mean you're doing a giant you know i mean that's that's 3 000 tickets like

it's i mean that's you you would do a big theater there. Next time you go, you could almost be like 5,000 is what it's going to be. And like, or, you know, so it's like you just look at like that kind of thing, two Ryman's. Next time you go, you might do two Ryman's or whatever you want to go do. But it's going to double. As long as the show, people are leaving and they're happy. It should, it will double. Like it just keeps doubling. I always worry about it going away. Like you're the show people are leaving and they're happy it should it will double like it

just keeps doubling i always worry about it going away like you're doing so well now huge rooms big tickets what do you you know 10 years is a long time like a lot can happen in 10 years i mean look at like a guy like dane cook he was on top of the world and now he's you know he's still doing it but it's not what it used to be and i always have that fear i i i have the i have the same fear it's we're it's i think like being a comic here dude i think we're we talked about like they were it's as long as you're aware of it and as long as you're you have that fear when the fear goes away and you and you believe the hype yeah then then i i promise it will end for you and you won't have

to worry about it you won't have to worry about anything it'll just end fear is good fear is good and you have the panic if you have the panic and you have the constant of like you're like dude i'm you know i'm and it can't be manufactured manufactured it's got to be real but that fear is good but you got to go do the you got to go take the chances with that fear you can't just stay protected in like a scenario like there's a point like i mean look unless you want to if you go do 10 zanies uh all right so what do you want to do 15 zanies like it's like right right if you want to then go do that it's gonna move to zanies yeah it's but you know it's like there's a point you go all right well you need to go to a rhyming you need to go do two rhyming you need

to go do it otherwise it's like what you know what are we doing like it's right right you know you're well you were the blueprint for a lot of us because you know you you're a dude that was you know ahead of us and and we kind of watched your trajectory and we're like well this is what you do you know so we like we look to you well y'all i mean because y'all both were guys that did spots and worked and wanted to work and you know and there's uh not a lot of comics that uh want to work i mean comics that would you know i always looked at as like guys that are like well i take mondays off right like i remember that and i just was like i mean just quit and it's one day but you're like in my head you're just kind of like well just quit especially in the early days especially in the early days being like i don't go out on this day

you're like what are you talking about you got to go out every night you got to you don't get to have that you you don't get it you don't get to take mondays off maybe mondays take off from comedy takes mondays off for you but you don't get to tell this you don't get to tell comedy what it's not really on you it feels like it's not on your terms especially at the beginning or the dudes with the sense of entitlement like i remember we'd hand out flyers and there'd be guys who would be like why don't hand out flyers i'm like well enjoy not going on stage yeah because you're not fucking funny yeah like yeah yeah yeah we all hated it it was like you just like that's what i have to do i don't know what to tell you like it's like i don't trust me but you have humility i mean we're talking about

like you know the fear and i think those dudes were kind of like it'll work out like maybe they didn't have that fear you watch them dude it's like how how crazy it is in your career when you see because you see people jump quick and then if you stay on like a steadier rise it's like how how crazy it is in your career when you see because you see people jump quick. And then if you stay on like a steadier rise, it's like you see them go and then you see then you slowly get to that level that they're at. And you're like because because people can make a jump and they just assume the next jump will come. Yeah. And so then they will. One of the jumps is not going to come like you you're either, people are going to see through it, or they're going to, you know, they don't build an audience.

Right. When you build an audience, you walk around with an audience. This is what they're talking about with the Gaffigan thing. When he walks around with an audience, Brad Paisley, country singer, said to him once, like Gaffigan can go sell out a 2,000-seat theater anywhere he wants to, any night of the week, for the rest of his life. That's a lot.

That's insane. That's a lot. And new material. Yeah, and so to be able to go do that, to have that backstop, to be like, he's not ever going to be a club comic again. Right. But he does clubs, and that's what keeps him tight.

Yes. Gaffigan will still pop into clubs, and he works on his shit. He was on MacGotham last week. Yeah, and he's a dude that works. Yes. Gaffigan will still pop into clubs. And he works on his shit. He was on the Gotham last week. Yeah. I mean, and he's a dude that works. I mean, he's a. He had a binder of new shit.

And it was all hilarious. He's a dude also, when I see working out, it almost always seems finished, which blows me away. I know. It's so annoying. It's weird. It's weird. Like, that's not the way I work out.

Yeah. I work out. I'm kind of like, anything? Yeah. It's a lot of that. It's a lot of. Is that something? You know, that's how I built. And I watch Gaffigan. I'm like, like anything yeah it's a lot of that it's a lot of is that something you know that's how i built and i watched gaffigan i'm like that was 18 minutes

without a fucking hiccup i know and he's like it's new it's new i'm like i just did a michael richards set up there and that was my new chunk but this thing about humility is let me say this fun fact marcus aurelius the biggest most, most famous. Did you just go from Michael Richards to Marcus Aurelius? They have a lot in common. This guy's got range. But he was the biggest guy, most powerful guy in the world at whatever year that was. And he hired a guy to walk around with him and tell him that he wasn't that great. And he said that's what kept him focused.

Because it's obviously easy in Rome or wherever the fuck he was to be just like oh i'm the king i'm the shit i beat every army i'm the man but he had a guy going you're just a man you're you're just a man you look just like veter yeah but like guys would come up in the street like kiss his feet go marcus aurelius you saved my family i love you whatever he'd be like oh thank you and then the other guy would go hey you're no better than him and he said that like kept him going then he died of stomach cancer i bet there had to be moments he goes i pay you like there has to be you know when he goes you're just a man you go but understand i'm doing so good yeah i hired you i hired you just to tell me i'm not good right right you when you shows, how big a venue do you do in Tennessee

when you're in Nashville? Well, this year we're doing Bridgestone. Woo! So. How many seats? April 15th. Don't have Rory open. You'll do him.

Yeah. We're going to try to sell it out. And it's already at close to 13,000 tickets sold. Oh my God! That's insanity. We're trying to make it out and it's i mean it's already at like close to 13 000 tickets so oh my god we're trying to make it be uh hopefully be completely sold out because i'm gonna do it in the round let's put it it's a big night i think this will send it over yeah so it's yeah that will be that'll be the biggest show it's already is the biggest show we're like we have some arenas this year

that are that are you doing arenas in cities and i'm like that's a that's a hard city to sell out and you're selling out uh well you gotta see some of them they sell out some of them they don't i mean like all that stuff is you know some of like i was in jonesborough arkansas like there was an arena there because there's not really anything there to do but then they just size it down i mean but we ended up selling like i mean you still was like i forget what 1800 tickets or something but you're in you know you gotta you gotta look at that stuff sometimes because it's hard not to you see people and they're selling out everywhere or you feel like they're selling out everywhere and you can really get down to be like god am i going backwards like this this leg that we're

doing this year we had some arenas set up in some places that we moved them back to theaters before they got announced and uh you know and i and i got when i got told this it was like kind of i i mean i really it like hurt like because it was like golly am i going like is it not am i going backwards yeah but then i have to remind yourself like all right well i'm trying to go to places that people are not going and that are like you know that not every comic that's what i'm trying to be right and so you have to then you do there's going to be moments of i can do bridgestone and i can walk out and it's going to be this crazy show of my life to like,

I'm going to go somewhere else. And it's going to feel like, you know, you're like, I don't know if everybody here even knows who I am. Right. And so that's beautiful. And it keeps you humble. I mean, I mean, that's a beautiful thing. It's all, it's all humbling. So it's thinking about the three of you take a snapshot of you from like 2015. And it's like, just, you know, almost 10 years later, whatever the hell it is. It's like, you know almost 10 years later whatever the hell it is it's like you're only doing theaters you're doing theaters on a tour bus you're opening yeah i mean you're doing bridgestone i open for people still and i just found no i didn't mean opening yeah i'm joking oh that's wild i was giving the same speech. Well, you look great. Yeah. Yeah, you look so much better.

It was a mess back then. Wow. I mean, what year is that? Who knows? Is that Cabin? I assume it's 2015, yeah. Oh, 2013. Oh, that was at Molly Wee's.

2013. Molly Wee's. Wow. Yeah, that's Levinbach. 28 years. 10 years ago. Yeah. 26 Street.

Wow. 10 years ago. Just take a minute and soak it in it's incredible what you guys life is good i'm grateful for everything yeah yeah boy we used to we all still we all stink nate do you have any any pet peeves anything that's bothering you just basic life uh something you can't stand it really grinds your gears yeah I'm trying to think do you have one I have one on my way over here

the woman the woman who's oblivious by the way we're in Times Square you gotta keep your head in a swivel the woman who's oblivious just blocking she's trying to get in a bus she's having like small talk with the woman who's letting people on the bus and she goes and then I tell my friend, I'm like, shut the fuck up.

Move. You don't get to block the whole. It's like may as well just be a cone in the street. Exactly. Exactly. I'm with you on that. I hate that. We've covered that before.

The guy who sits in the turnstile, the guy who stands and checks his phone at the top of the subway stairs. I think we covered it maybe with someone recently, the guy who's ordering the sandwich. Yes. He doesn't know what sandwich he wants. Yes. At the front. You wait in line the whole stairs. I think we covered it maybe with someone recently, the guy who's ordering the sandwich but doesn't know what sandwich he wants. Yes. At the front. You wait in line

the whole time. It happened to me in Nashville at Hattie B's. I wanted the real experience so I wait in line for an hour and it's like six women

all paying separately all have no idea what the fuck they're going to get. They serve two things here. Yes. Put it together. I know.

They want substitutions. I'm just kidding. I always try to make this a joke, but I don't know if I ever could. But it's like when someone says it doesn't hurt to ask. That's good. That's a pep because it does hurt someone. Right. Can I borrow 20 bucks?

Doesn't hurt to ask. Well, that guy's out 20 bucks. That guy's out 20 bucks or he has to say no, which is not something people enjoy. You don't enjoy saying no to someone. Good point. So you're making someone, it's like you can go ask a million dollars. Yeah.

You say no, because then when you get told no, you don't go laugh at all. There's a moment of like, you have the money. Right, right. You don't want to laugh at all yeah there's a moment of like you know you have the money you know yeah i don't want to ask you that next time you should be like ah fuck yeah yeah yeah that's a good one that's a good peeve that is a peeve for sure that's a great one right that could be a bit but mine is so mine is so vague but i hate dilly-dallying you know when you go all right let's leave and they go all right okay let me see let me just check my phone real quick this is women you're just talking well just like get up and go you're just standing there and you're like i want to leave so let's leave but

they have to like dilly dally say bye to 18 people check their phone check their fucking shoes tie this tie that like just go let's take julie mccall on the road oh is he a dilly dallyer oh here i enjoy i mean he's the best but he's i've seen uh you know those little uh cologne bottles that you get that are glass yeah you can get like in a package that they mail to you i've seen two of them broke in my life and we both by Julian and were both on my bus back to back days I don't know I don't know who has the little ones

he brings the little ones and he dropped them both in the same spot on the bus separate days so the bus just smelled like that we find Julian's stuff on the bus like everybody this week in Graham found a watch, a necklace. He'll find his check.

Jesus. It's all just kind of like he's – It's what you sign up for with Julian. Right. He's a funny guy. Yeah. It's a fun – but I know what you mean. Remember the steak bones?

I'll pay before I'm done eating. Let's just get out. Yeah, when it's time to go, it's time to go. I agree. Yeah, no, I hate the... That's the whole reason I think you want to be a headliner. Right. Just so whatever weird thing you have, you're like, I'm going to make everybody have to do my weird thing.

You know what I did this week? Totally. No one on my bus really plays basketball, i was like i'm buying you all basketball sneakers today so you feel guilty if you don't play with me that's a headline and they and they i bought them all yana sneakers and we all played every day damn you play outside or you play no we did outside the first day in new orleans but then we did rec center holy shit these kids in dallas could hoop man really we were playing like 23 year olds after the first full court game i was on my back like ah

and they were just laughing these kids but i fucking i got back in there but i was like i thought i broke my back for a second it was a cramp yeah yeah but uh they came to the show too oh really these young kids oh yeah that's my problem i'm giving out tickets on the road like crazy i have one good bagel i'm like bring, bring your whole family. I'll meet them. Yeah. My agent's like, you're killing me here. This is 28 comps. I remember opening years ago for Jeff Ross and Dave Attell at the Borgata.

And Jeff Ross's green room, it's like 40 people in the green room. They're like, we met him at White House Subs. Then I'm in Dave Attell's green room. It's just him alone with a cigarette. He just looks at me like, hey. That's great. It's hard not to invite. I can't help it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. One good cup of coffee, I'm like. You're like, what are you doing? Come on by. That's how you got that 10th show. Exactly, exactly. You're at nine. You got to do 10 of just who you meet.

Where do you work? The bagel shop. You saw me earlier. Right, right. So speaking of Dave Attell, he's the king of humility. He might have too much. Too much. Talk about self-awareness where you're like, I suck.

I got to write more. He's that guy on steroids. Yes. He's got too much. I mean, he's the best. He's the one that's the most fun. Yes. best he's the one that's the most fun like i was yeah they always say like when people uh if i had to pay to go see someone it'd be him same and it's like it's there's no one more fun

always funny always new shit and uh just always thinks he bombs he'll murder and he's like slamming the mic stand down like you guys don't get me or whatever and it's all murdering yeah he's the king yeah that's he was i mean yeah coming up watching him was uh i mean that was the that's the stuff that makes i think you know that sets a tone for kind of new york comics because you really kind of fit in a group you were not a group or like a lot like it was either like it was like the david tell like you know which is like burr lewis it's like all that like the new york guys yeah i mean i guess i don't know what the other group would be yeah well you had your like mark maron michael black but maron is watching him because i would go with him i worked with him and uh i actually i learned i mean i learned a lot from marin marin is was what i wanted to be when i would see marin

is i would like try to marin's such him yeah on stage true that it's uh i remember like being like how do i get to be where it's just that's who he is? Like, if you see him afterwards and see him on stage, it's essentially that exact same person. Yeah, you definitely have that. And so to be able to try to, you know, because you're like, I mean, the closer you can get to your real life, the more I think the more material you're open to. Oh, yeah. Because you're open to. Oh, yeah. Because you're just being you. So it's, you know, the more you can just do this,

the more you'll be able to talk about it, the more, you know, it's more conversational, it's more whatever it is. Right. Hold on. All right. But let me just say this. I had nothing after that. But, uh sorry that was a squeaker we had a we had jewish deli before this sorry about that oh no you're good can he farted it was a whole thing

did he yeah yeah nate did i know it's supposed to be clean i want mark to have a sitcom just so actors have to walk in and he farts and they have to pretend they like it. Shoot him a Gavin's like, that's very funny. He'll be kicked off like Patrice on The Office. So funny to see reruns. You're like, that's Patrice O'Neal. And he wasn't happy to be there. He could tell he was like, this is a shitty gig. He could tell that one episode where he goes something about, what her face calls her calls him a monster or something

like that he's like i'll show you my he says something kind of aggressive and it was uh and you're like oh you're almost like that's maybe the episode he got like it was like you know it's like the show's very fun and stuff and then it's a guy that you're like yeah he it's the tone is very different. Not the right fit. Not the right tone. Yeah. But great show.

And great comedian, just not the right fit. Yeah. Yeah. He's a guy. They said he would bomb so much, and he got banned from so many clubs in America that he had to go to London. He went for three years. Really?

Yeah. That's what Will Silvins told me. He said in London, he was a comic. In America, he was a fat N-word. That was his line. And that's his line. So I was like, that's really interesting. So he wanted to just be treated like a comic.

So he's like, I want to work this shit out. I'm going to text Will. He's like, yeah, I never said that. He said it to Will, but he said the word. He lived in London? Yeah, three years because he felt like no one was getting him here. They were kind of just judging him, like, who's this big guy? Well, Bill Hicks is another guy that did very well in London.

That's right. When you have an abrasiveness about you in America, sometimes it's a little bit like this, and then you go to London, and you're like, yeah, that's how we talk. If he told me he never went to London, I would believe that that patria when i don't know when he would have went to london i've never heard this three years call will get him on the horn yeah he told me but you know what is will yeah yeah i never uh see i remember when he got kicked out of the comic strip there you go what do you do with the comic strip he would he would go up you know and like it was they would drop checks and he'd go up kind of the check spot and all this kind of stuff

and then he just like the waitress would be loud it's like that it's kind of that balance where it's they you know the waitresses are just waiting tables they want to be done and then he's on stage and it's like you know you understand the frustration that he's in and the fact that, like, they're not, you know, but, I mean, he would just be, like, they're not here to see you and all this stuff, and you come in just getting arguments with them. We're the only entertainers that have to deal with that shit, though.

That's true. I mean, and guess what? If a musician has to deal with a check drop, it doesn't fuck up their song the way it fucks up what we're doing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's why doing the check drop is kind of how you get good especially with an energy like like yours you know like i mean i remember doing check drops and i'm a low energy guy too so i think people were trying you have to

really have a good few jokes to get to grab oh yeah yeah but i get it a guy at patrice's level was kind of not having it makes sense too yeah well they yeah they would they would do it back then and then he would just yeah he would i mean i mean really it'd be brutal with the servers and you know and then it's like that well they're just being service all this but you're like yeah but there there has to somebody's a step in and go but you have a show yeah you're having a balance there's a balance of like a guy is on stage right and you're just you can't just and be like a late show or something you'd like i people don't know like what it's you know when you're on there and you're like you think this is not fun yeah like it's like it's in it's in almost embarrassed drunk they're doing math it's brutal yeah it's really it's not

you know they'd be like doing i remember uh doing a new year's eve once at new at stand up new york and i remember i was and i was on stage and i like saying in the microphone i was like i don't know if anybody knows that i'm talking no and it's it's it's insane to think you just say that to yourself, and it's crazy to be in a situation in your life. It's the funniest thing to say into a microphone. Yeah. No one's aware.

Well, no one's even kind of aware that you're on stage. I mean, I've been on shows where at 20 minutes in, it's going so badly, you're like, should we just end? Like, let's all, you guys hate me, I hate you. Let's wrap it up. And you want them to know to know you're like i know this isn't going well like i have a higher bar than this right i just want you to know i'm not bad and lacking in self-awareness yeah you know yeah and the shit usually works so maybe it's a little bit on you

guys i don't know what i did in the beginning to piss you off yeah when people say there's no some comedians say there's no bad crowds i'm'm like, that's insane. That's insane. That's a person who doesn't do bad shows. Or never did, maybe. I've had fries thrown at me. That's a bad crowd. You ate a few of the fries? I've had fries thrown at me, yeah. Where?

Syracuse Funny Bone. Oh, wow. So they weren't even good fries. No, I ate them. But they were not good. That's a fucking shithole, that room. They're throwing shit at me, and I'm'm like jesus christ what are we doing here you go to that room and you're like there's a reason this is the suicide capital yeah like this is a dark this is a mall it's eight degrees

that's a long walk too oh and long walk to the stage right uh that pittsburgh improv used to i think it's changed now but the new one now pittsburgh is great yeah the old and the the old one i remember uh and i did there one weekend and uh this guy was hosting and uh might have passed away i thought like i heard that after but he was hosted as kind of a big guy and so that walk if you don't like realize like or all right if you don't know but if you ever go to a comic company you really if you look at the where the comic has to walk from to this stage that when you had to walk down the middle and it was a very long walk and so you would have to kind of be if you're going to introduce you need to be halfway and then once they start start

walking right so i like when you you it's that thing when they bring you up and you're already kind of halfway down the crowd's looking at you already i mean it's not like i was really i was just headlining but no one no one's really there for me at that time and so then i get done and so when i'm saying good night i look and the guy hosting is kind of big dude no it's gonna take him a while. He's not walking down. And I'm like, oh, man, you're not supposed to leave a stage empty or whatever. And so I'm like, all right, good night, everybody. And then, look, he starts walking.

And you're like, I mean, this might be 45 seconds. There's no hustle. And you're like, and I'm like, all right, we had so much fun. Keep it going. You forget their name. You're like, the host is coming back up right, we had so much fun. Keep it going. You forget their name. You're like, the host is coming back up here. He has a heart attack in the aisle. And he stops for a second because he thinks, are you going to keep going?

You're like, no, please come. Yes, yes. Please come. I hate that. There's no music playing. Right, right. You just do the awkwardness. Just keep doing this shit.

Yeah. You're like the queen. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. playing it right the awkwardness keep doing this shit yeah you're like the queen yeah thank you thank you everybody you ever have someone have a heart attack or a stroke during the show that's a fucking ham no but uh no i never had that i had a stroke and this was i was in uh stand-up scottsdale and in scottsdale i'm not bragging yeah that's when they moved it to a mexican restaurant phoenix the reno phoenix it really is and and they uh they he puts me it was a nice club the first time i was there and then the second time i'm there he just rolls me up to this place i'm like what's this he goes this is the new venue it's the back of a mexican restaurant somebody like this is gonna be a bad weekend you know and uh i'm on and this guy, this old guy just goes, he just knocks over a drink.

And I'm like, oh, you know, I do that thing. I'm like, yes, I'm doing pretty well, you know? And she goes, he's having a stroke. And I'm like, oh, fuck. Couldn't do that during the feature? Come on. So I'm like, you know, like, Jesus Christ, call an ambulance. I stop the show, obviously.

Howard Hughes, the guy who runs the show. I don't know if you remember him. Yeah, yeah. I do remember him. He's got a great heart yeah he makes some questionable choices yeah so so uh he calls an ambulance then he goes on i stopped the show obviously i said let's see what happens he goes on stage and starts doing a shtick with the guy who had the stroke so he's like how you doing i'm like dude he's having this you know how he's doing yeah you don't ask that and and the guy's just like ah and then he finally sorry and then howard's like you know i've had a stroke i'm like you had a stroke because you had 12 red bulls and a ton

of coke this guy's like 70 you know yeah it's a different stroke yeah yeah so finally they bring him out and then uh i just had to go back on you know you give it like yeah but i'm like this is a fucking brutal i thought the strip ones too the comic strip a guy collapse really that's a that's a jarring thing oh yeah for a person's life to you know of course this might this guy might be dead it's like broadway danny rose and you gotta be funny you gotta be you gotta have a line but not too mean but cut the tension yeah it's tough yeah tim burge you're that you're that good you saw it coming yeah i think i did those uh it's funny with uh the stand-up scots like those kind of shows like i mean where you you go do it one year and you're like oh it's pretty it was it wasn't bad he books

you again and you're it's like the venue's different you don't think to look into that no and you're like you have to yeah you don't think you look at the offer it says the club yeah and you're like all right so we're the same place he goes nah different part of town you go what and you walk into a crack house he's like look it's we'll work there uh i remember where i did i don't know if it was in scott still it It was kind of in Scott's. There was some other place where they made you if you had comps, if you had someone with you, you had to pay for their ticket to get in. What?

And I thought I heard a story with Pete Davidson headlined there when he was like 16 or 17 and he had to pay for his mom's ticket because she had a comp. Wow, really? That's a good person to make an enemy with early on in his career. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me piss off. He's going to be one of the biggest comedy stars. Yeah.

That was a tough room. They would charge you for that room in Staten Island. Looney Bin. Yeah, that one I remember. I got a Diet Coke, and then they charged you. I had to pay $2.50. It's like, come on, man. Yeah.

It's out of a soda gun. That cost you $0.03. Yeah. Yeah. I've got pay $2.50. It's like, come on, man. Yeah. It's out of a soda gun. That costs you $0.03. Yeah. Yeah. I've got the famous story. He's at Funny Farm in Youngstown, Ohio, no longer around. The guy goes, you want any dinner? I go, sure.

You know, I'm staying in the worst hotel. I got eight people there. I'm bombing. And he goes, all right, get the swordfish. It's the best thing on the menu. I was like, great. Give me the swordfish. Ohio, famous for that.

There's a wine that pairs well. I go, give me the wine. I don't even drink wine, but if it pairs. And I get the bill. It's like $260. I was like, what the hell is this? He's like, well, you got the Swordfish. I was like, oh, my God.

I think I was making $500 for the weekend. It happened to me in Colorado Springs at a club called Looney's with two E's. And I remember all weekend the guy's's like, you can have a beer. I was like, yeah, probably not. He's like, pussy. I was like, all right. So I started pounding beers. The weekend, they hand me a bill.

I was like, what the fuck? He called me a pussy. I love that it worked on you. It worked. Yeah. They charge for all of them? All of them. Oh, my God.

What a scumbag. It was Looney. Yeah. It was terrible. Terrible. Damn, these clubs. They fucked us. They make it. Yeah yeah but it's kind of funny looking it's very funny i mean that's so funny to have to pay for a sword yeah and now you go to clubs they start they're like here's a menu book with all the

menus of every restaurant watch out at bridgestone i heard they charge for waters yeah so take it easy over there well that's you start doing in theaters. They charge for everything. That's true. Like a microphone. You know, like a God mic can be on a thing. What? A God mic in some places can be charged. That's what they say about Madison Square Garden. You do it to do it, and then you don't do it. You don't make any money.

No. No. But you do it to do it. Wow. I mean, like Dana White said. I bet they give Billy Joel a deal. Well, he does 18. Yeah, he does.

You know what? If you do that, maybe do that kind of thing. His jersey's got a thing in the rafters next to the Knicks. They might not give him a deal, though. I mean, it's just like he comes down. It's not like you don't make any money but it's like i want to say if like someone can make a million dollars out of it like you might take home 200 000 like or something like wow i could be making all this i don't know that would be hilarious if you left

with like three grand yeah if you played the garden it's back to yeah you had normal 25 50 yeah 25 50 and travel by out right God, it goes all the way back We won't cover hotel Wow, they're really The garden's weird You can stay across the street Hotel Pennsylvania We got your room there

I gotta walk over But I know it's late You gotta do Fallon today, right? I gotta do Fallon, yeah Thanks for making time for us, man. It's great to see you. You too. Great to see you guys.

It's right around the corner. Yeah. Amazon, new Nate Bargatze special. And you're on the road. Plug some dates. Vegas is just the late show in Vegas. Super Bowl weekend in Wichita Falls, Shreveport, Tupelo, Tupelo,

Tupelo come out, Baton Rouge. Then going to London. First time to Europe, so I'll be London, Dublin, Oslo, Brussels, Amsterdam, then Melbourne, Florida. Oh, boy. That's a wake-up call. Yeah. Come right back to it.

Yeah. Get in the thick of it. Uh-huh. Then PNC Arena. So that is an arena that's ppg paints arena same thing i'm paying 200 grand to do it making no money uh yeah it's the opposite are you doing a bridge tone you don't do april 15th i do bus oh you do bus still yeah i was on the bus this weekend i'm actually getting a new bus uh because you can if you get a bus you can i custom this new bus and uh you just sign like a three-year lease if you're going to do like a three-year kind of thing where it's like i look at it as like i'm i mean i don't see myself stopping touring so it's whether how much i tour i mean i don't know but it's uh So I just made it where I have the back area.

I still have the bunks. I like a lot of people on the bus. I sleep well in the bunks. Yeah, the bunks are great. The back is nice to have. You get your own bathroom and all that kind of stuff. But I like the bunks because I just kind of like a bunch of us on the bus. It makes it fun. It was fun, man. kind of stuff but i like the bunks because i just kind of like a bunch of us on the bus like it

makes it fun it was fun it's a fun waking up veter sliding the sliding the curtain and farting in his face great vibes i told you this earlier i did the bus with burt joey diaz shangulas and big j yeah and it was like a sleep apnea convention it was hell I couldn't get a wink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even over the bus noise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Farting. It was wild. Yeah, yeah.

All right. Thank you, guys. Yeah, thank you. Love y'all. Appreciate it, man. Love you. See the special. It's going to be on Amazon. It's going to be a killer.

What's it called again? Hello World. Hello World on Amazon. Going to be big, man. All right. Killed on Fallon. Yeah. Oh, wait.

Let's get a picture. Oh, yeah. We're going to get a photo, and we'll wrap it up. Mark, to be big, man. All right. Killed on Fallon. Yeah. Oh, wait. Let's get a picture. Oh, yeah. We're going to get a photo, and we'll wrap it up. Mark, plug some dates, bro. Oh, hey. I'm back in the clubs to run this special, folks. I'll be with Bert at the arena, though. We're going to the Super Bowl.

Then we're doing Spokane Comedy Club, Skyline Comedy Club in Appleton, Comedy at the Carlson at Rochester. Then we're in Chicago for the big taping. Then I'm at Laugh It Up in Poughkeepsie, take a little break for the weekend, come back home. Miami this weekend. All kinds of fun dates. Then we're back in theaters after that.

So marknormancomedy.com. Get some Bodega Cat. I don't know when this comes out, but we got... When was it? What? February 12th. All right. So, what do we have?

February 14th, Salt Lake City, Utah. Yeah, during the week. Yeah, through 16th, we added a few there. Huntington, New York. Atlantic City. Royal Oak, Michigan, added there. Added Minneapolis. Madison.

Milwaukee. New Haven, Boston. We keep adding, so you better buy your Boston Wilbur tickets. And then Miami, Orlando, Ponte Verde, we're adding a show there. We got Atlanta, Charleston, Durham, Charlottesville. Tickets still available. Norfolk, tickets still available. Added in D.C., we got fucking Wilkes-Barre. Oh, the Warner.

It's unreal. And Portchester. I can't wait. So love you guys. And bodegacatwhiskey.com. Keep on drinking. Hell yeah. We got a good thing going here.

We love you. Yeah, get some glasses, get a shirt, and yeah, praise Allah. Thank you. Thank you. Sunday's the day for my next offender. I've been a fever wreck, you know the beer juice close. I've had a little too much bourbon. And Norman's talking shit about the fucking pump. And I get down in the same way.

Up on the roof like the cops are coming. And naked Samuel is feeling dangerous I'm out to lunch here in New Orleans This woman doesn't look like I remember her And I get down in the same way We might be true