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We were just talking about Shawshank, and I was going to say to Will, Jay, before he came on, that my philosophy in life is kind of... Oh, this is good.
Hang on. No, this is good.
This is good. You'll like it.
Everybody pull over and get out the pen. By the way, this is Shawshank Redemption, I think.
Shawshank Redemption. For Tracy.
It's the film. So the end of the movie.
So the whole movie, Morgan Freeman is talking about like, you know, he goes in front of the, what is it called? The panel or whatever, the people who kind of, the board. Parole board.
Yeah, and he's the parole board and he's like, he tells them what they think they want to hear. He's like, no, I've been, you know, reformed.
I'm good. I've learned my lesson.
And they always deny his parole. And then at the end of the movie,

he finally just is like,

you know what?

Fuck it.

This is who I am.

You people are crazy.

I didn't learn anything.

Blah, blah, blah.

And then that's when he gets released.

That's it.

That's my philosophy for life.

And that's what full release comes from honesty.

Well, two ways.

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Because we really didn't get an end to it. It's nice that Sean's philosophy on life is like, you know, don't try to be something you're not.
Yeah, exactly. Right.
I agree with you. Authenticity is a thematic that I'm on a project that I'm working on right now.
Oh, yeah. That's the theme of the thing.
Oh, very good. It's a great evergreen.
Authenticity. Hey, Jason.
Yeah, hi. Why did the man fall down the well? Oh, boy.
Because... He didn't see that well? That's exactly right.
Wait, who... Wait, Willie, you got, when we had Jordan Peele on his film, Nope, I always just thought it was just a fun way to say, yeah, no, I'm not comfortable with flying saucers, it says the main character, and this shit freaks me out.
But it's actually an acronym for? It's an acronym. Well, he said it's an acronym.
You guessed it. And I just went, and I thought about it for two seconds and I went, not of planet Earth.
Not of planet Earth. And remember the look on his face? He was a little mad, I think.
Well, no, what you were seeing was the same look that I had, which is a total shock at your level of intelligence. Yes.
Just like, that was my answer. Stunning surprise.
That's what hurt me the most was the stunning, the stunned look on everybody's face when I do something. Well, we're going to have a stunned look at your guest when he comes home.
Well, he's going to have a stunned look at Sean. Oh, sorry, Sean.
Did you have a lunch? He's going to have a stunned look at when he heard your joke for sure because he tells jokes for a living. Oh, shit.
Oh, shit. Yeah.
Here we go. And he doesn't just tell jokes.
I, man, he, this guy tells jokes. This son of a gun.
This son of a gun, and that's kind of the language that he would use, too, son of a gun. Dax Shepard's coming back? He, Dax does love son of a gun.
He does. This guy uses, I don't know, there's something about his, everything that he does, his delivery, his turn of phrase, the things he talks about, the way he does it.
A lot of

people call him the nicest guy in stand-up.

I think of him as just the funniest dude

I've seen in such a long time. And I remember

the first time I heard about him

was through our old friend

Greg Garcia.

And Greg was like, Greg reached out

to me. He's like, you have to have this guy on, blah, blah, blah.

And I made some glib remark. He's like, you're gonna

regret it. I go, I think he's hilarious.

Relax, Greg.

And then, JB, you and I had the pleasure of meeting him really, really briefly. I'm going to make you repeat the glib remark right in front of him.
We met him really briefly up at last year up at Pebble Beach. And he's as nice as he is funny.
And it's all legit. I love this guy.
He's so, so funny. I love Ray Romano.
I love the Tennessee kid. Ray Romano? I love the Tennessee kid.
I love his new special Hello World on Amazon. He's about to go on tour in a new one.
Guys, it's none other than the hilarious Nate Bregazzi. Nate Bregazzi.
Hello. Even better.
I was ready for Ray.

I love Ray.

I'll get Ray.

Oh, how great.

Nate, it's good to see you again.

Good to see you, Sean.

Hey, just a little fun note.

Never seen Shawshank, so.

Well, you're young.

You're too young for it.

You know, it's before your time.

Wait, wait.

I'm 44.

I should have.

It's pretty young.

You know what, Nate?

I didn't see Shawshank until I was 45. Oh, I'll do it next year.
Anyway. Nate Bargazzi.
Nate. Dude.
Nate, this is really nice. Great to see you again because we did meet.
We did meet up at Pebble. Yep.
Do you live in a nice house or are you in a nice hotel room? Where are you? In a hotel room. I'm in Syracuse.
Okay. Working? I get a show in Syracuse.
This is, can't make it here. Can't make it anywhere, you know? That's what they say.
That's what they say. I like, Nate, I like that Sean, you said I'm in Syracuse, and Sean goes, working? Nah.
I just, he goes, He's just hanging out with the orange men. It's vacation.
This is the vacations I can afford in Syracuse. He goes, it's nice.
We took a bus, though. But it's, you know.
We spent on the hotel room. Yeah, yeah.
Everything went to this. Now, what kind of- My family of 30 is right off camera.
They're just right there. I said, if y'all talk during this, I will kill you all.
When you are traveling around, you're doing these shows, what size is your group footprint? What's your posse size? We have probably like 10 guys. Because I bring four openers.
Actually, tonight, we've got a surprise opener. He won't be here until later.
Jimmy Fallon. Fallon is coming to the show.
Oh, that's great. He's going to jump on the bus.
Where do I know him? Tell me what we know him from. That movie Pitch Fever.
Taxi. Fever Pitch.
Pitch Fever Pitch. With Queen Latifah.
Yes, I remember Taxi. Jimmy right now, by the way, he's hearing this.
He's sharpening his knife hearing us say this. Well, Nate, I have to say this.
We developed the show together years ago. What? And you were very successful then.

But to see you over the years,

just kind of like,

and then SNL,

and then like,

it's so exciting to finally be like,

yes, this guy has been brilliant,

has always been brilliant,

and now more and more people get to see it. And you sell,

Nate,

and you sell,

Nate,

you sell out arenas,

like 20,000 at a clip,

which is just unbelievable.

And on top of this,

and I'm going to say this, and I really, and I've said it a bunch since it aired, when you were on SNL, your sketch, your George Washington sketch, to me, just in my opinion, the funniest SNL sketch I've seen in 15 years. I totally agree with that.
I totally remarkable. Now, your TV just went on, which tells me you're bored.

Yeah, I don't know why it turned on.

The family's bored.

Yeah.

The 30 men are getting itchy.

There's no one in here.

It's just you and Jim Benheim, right?

Is that his name?

Did you turn it off or does it matter?

No, no.

Let's give me something to watch.

But you have, to echo what Sean's saying, you have just like kind of finally, thankfully,

the rest of America is just like, understand what an awesome, awesome, hilarious dude you are.

So how do you start? You're the Tennessee kid. You're from Old Hickory, Tennessee.
Am I right about that? Yes. Old Hickory.
Yeah, Old Hickory. Is it next to New Hickory? No, New's a little bit farther.
Was it ever New Hickory? No, we stayed old. He's got this great joke in his new special on Amazon Prime where he says, I from old hickory it's where uh andrew jackson's from and people are like he wasn't a good guy and nate goes well we didn't know him that well but we didn't know him at all but nate talk to me about when you were a kid and stuff like did you were always into comedy did you watch snl like what were your inspirations that's what i was thinking that's what i was getting to how did you start i just got there uh it's uh i grew my dad's a magician what and does mine too mine can disappear on the drop of a hat sean hayes you are talk show quick get out of here sorry nate thanks you guys keep going no that i mean i grew up around that i mean so that was like you know i was funny but then also growing up around you know dad being a magician.
You learned patter. Yeah.
It just kind of leads you to it, I guess. Wait, wait, wait.
So, Nate, so you grew up, your dad's a magician. He obviously loved you.
Sorry, Sean. And he, I mean, to the extent that he wanted to stick around.
I'm friends with Sean's dad. Yeah.
Oh, so you know where he is. Yeah, yeah.
He's a pretty good dude. I don't know the whole backstory, but I just know from what our hanging out is.
He's got no tread left on his tires, but he's a good guy. He texts you a pin to his location.
So what was that like growing up with your dad being a magician? That's pretty rad. An illusionist.
Yeah, yeah, it was the best. You know, I don't know if i even understood it like i'm sure i think of it like you're my daughter and i'm sure your kids like it doesn't seem not normal like it just felt like it's like that's all i ever knew and it wasn't until you got older that you're like yeah dude nobody's dead's a magician yeah start saying you don't know when you're asked what your dad does right yeah so he would make a living i mean i have people do magic like magicians would show me magic trick i've just seen them all too and i just i'm just not a good i'm not a good person to perform for because i'm just like all right you know it's like this your card you're like it's always my it's always my card it's always been my every time i Every time I see magic, I freaking love it.
And I'll bet everybody listening loves it. I mean, how can you not love when you see a magic trick? I mean, a good one, if it's convincing.
But I never think about it. I never, and I always make fun of it when I hear about it.
It's like you hear about mimes. But you know what? You can't take your eyes off a mime or a magician.
It gets a bad rap. You can't take your eyes off a mime.
Yeah, that's the quote of the day. Wait.
So, Nate, so your dad, Sean was going to ask this. So your dad made a living as a magician.
He did. He was a teacher, too.
Like, so he had a day job, and then he would do that. And then we were always in Nashville.
And so he's just he's just always done it. And I mean, he's, he's very successful.
He's very known in the magic world. He comes with me and opens for me, uh, a lot on the road.
And he will do these shows and, you know, it's every little boy's dream. Travel to your dad when you're 44 years old.
So, uh, you go, got a little CPAP machine hooked up in a tour bus. It's a good time.
You got some ramps on the side of that stage? Yeah. I mean, we had our bus parked out one time, and it was my dad, my mom, and my aunt.
And I was like, people probably go by this tour bus, and they're like, it's pretty rocking in there. And I mean, we got, it's lights off, quiet, just the roar of machines keeping everybody alive.
And the smell of liniment. Wait, so did you ever perform in the magic shows with your dad i did some yeah i would help him with magic you ever get cut in half no no we didn't ever do that we didn't he never did that go that far he just slight hand a lot of slight of hand and he does comedy that's my favorite yeah so then when you what what, what age were you when you were like, actually kind of to what, Jason, you kind of alluded to it, but did you start just like being a wise-ass on the side of your dad's stage while he was doing magic? Like, is that how stand-up started for you? I think it was just being funny.
We would, like, I remember seeing stand-up, it was just trying to, it was trying to make people laugh. I don't think I ever really made fun of anybody.
Right. But it was like I would make fun of myself a lot, which is what I do now in my comedy.
Yeah, it's the best. So it'd be like you'd be doing stuff like that, making fun of you.
He had, I mean, one time, I've talked about this in a special on one of them, but it was like he brought the Easter Bunny home when I was like six. He was at a mall doing a show, and the Easter Bunny needed a ride home.
And my dad goes, I'll give you a ride home if you swing by my house. And so I remember the Easter Bunny, we had like, my parents had this old red Mazda stick shift, you know, and the Easter Bunny's head was bent to the side because his head couldn't fit in the car.
Sure. So he was just, he was sitting like this.
And then he got out and I met the Easter Bunny. And then my dad drove the Easter Bunny home.
So that started your, the Easter Bunny. That was the, yeah, that was the trajectory.
I go, all right. I go, if I can be that guy, then maybe I can make it as.
Now, what was your mom's attitude on her husband's career? My parents have been together since seventh grade. And they, my mom's very funny.
And, but she worked at a bank. I mean, she's just been, I mean, it's just stuff.
There's like, growing up, it's buying, you know, she has to go, my dad would be like, go to the store, I need you to buy 12 lemons, and he has to buy for like his magic, or a bunch of newspapers from that day. It's like a bunch of random, and it's just normal conversation, you're just like, it's a Tuesday, you're just trying to grab some bread, milk, and 30 oranges, and then you get on out of there.
And handkerchiefs in six colors. He's got a lot of shows this week.
It's just stuff like that. That's cool.
Wait, wait. So, Nate, so I want to kind of get, again, we're the worst interviewers on the planet.
We were just voted worst ever interviewers. We nailed it.
Of all time. Yeah.
But I want to go back because we, again, because you play these huge arenas and it's amazing. And I don't know if I've ever've ever seen a comic so comfortable you make it so intimate even though you're playing a huge there's something about it that makes it so personal and you and you you're so organic yeah you draw us in as opposed to ask and we're talking about authenticity you're very authentic but you that feels like you that when you started you must have started in clubs like in smaller venues right, right? Like most comics, I imagine.
Oh, yeah. So I moved to Chicago first for a couple years, and then I moved to New York.
And I was in New York for the most, for like eight and a half years. And so I did all the clubs and all the, like going up every single night.
I performed for one guy once. Oh, my God.
No way. Like he wouldn't leave.
We tried to get him to leave, and he's like, nah, it's all right all right and you're like we don't think it's all right it really wasn't about him you're like what's it like i don't want to stand up in front of a god uh regularly up in front of four people five six like i mean six people was like got a pretty good show going on you know you're yeah you were excited about no way yeah so you just get used to just being in these kind of like you know it takes a long time before you're in front of like an actual pain crowd that's good but what does that do for you what does that do for you like rhythm wise etc when you're just doing six people like well i had to learn to get people into my rhythm very quickly so since i'm talk slower and I'm from the South and all this,

I had to figure out,

because I would follow like high energy acts

and then I'd come up and I'm like,

well, I got to come up with a joke

or I got to say something.

I just need you to hear my voice for a second

so you can go like, all right, readjust

and be like, now we're in this rhythm

and then get into the first kind of,

you know, come up with a good like opening

little thing or whatever and just get rolling. You know what always blows my mind about stand-ups though like how you can just walk around the stage for two hours and always have something to talk about and just like how do you it is it like a monologue you memorize or like how can you just go up and speak god he's gonna love show business do you think hours straight yeah sean where do you get a load of her he's gonna love show business he's gonna love it with two-thirds of the planet is water um there's a couple of poles no you know what i mean that always blows obviously you had material that you work on but do you ever like there's your answer go up and you're like oh my god i don't know what subject to talk about next like the flow of well i don't go up i yeah i go up prepared i mean i can't do the other i can't really do like crowd work go up and it's very freestyling bro no i work it on it for months i know but do you ever switch it nate do you ever switch the order uh based on the audience oh yeah this this this new hour I've switched it a ton.
But it's worked because now I'm opening on a joke that I have closed on. So it's like it's great to be opening on a joke that I've actually had to have the energy and the rhythm of a closer.
And then you just move it up and now it's the front. And you're doing those decisions on the fly.
Yeah, you just fill it out. It's like, like a song.
I'm in love with stand-up right now. I love it so much.
The way I've looked at writing kind of is like it's a movie. So I'm the main character of this movie.
And I'm telling the story. There's a a reason for be saying all this stuff and everything leads into the other thing.

So you want to make it where people don't realize

you're into another joke.

But in my head, I could be on like joke five.

Right, right.

But you're trying to, I'm trying to make it where like,

and then that's how you remember it.

Cause the only way, you know,

if you're talking about like riding a car

and then you're like, my wife bought a car.

Well, now that's the only thing I could go into. Right, right.
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who was your main inspiration as far as developing that style of telling stories as opposed to jokes? Was it like a George Carlin? Because I seem to remember he was kind of like that too, right? Yeah, well, Cosby was one. Oh, yeah, yeah.
But if you go watch his old stuff, if you go, like, watch his old stuff, it was, it's very storytelling, all that kind of stuff.

I'm a big Seinfeld fan.

Seinfeld was, he was, I kind of think, because I always look at it like I tell stories, but in a joke form.

Like, so it's, I mean, I try to never be too far from the laugh, because the farther you are from the laugh, the bigger the laugh has to be.

And I don't want to put that much pressure on a laugh.

So if I can just kind of keep it going and let it build,

it's like, you know, it doesn't,

you're just not putting the weight of the world on this.

You're like, you know,

because if you go silent too long,

I mean, there's a point where you're like,

well, this joke better be unreal.

Sean tried stand up and we won't get to his opening joke,

but he started so far from the laugh and then he never got even to the same area code as the laugh you know what I mean he never had actual direct sight on the laugh he never got a clean look at it he turned into a lecture you're like no he's supposed to go even with mirrors, he couldn't see the laugh. It was so obscured.
That's how I drive around town. I only take right-hand turns.
But, Nate, biggest bombing story? Like, did you just like, oh, my God, this is the worst, like. Yeah.
Yeah, there's a bunch. I mean, you'd blame it on.
I had one one time I thought it was the shirt I wore, and so I'd move that shirt away. I had a button-downdown shirt and I tucked it in.
I've never done that since. For real? Yeah.
I was like, it wasn't me. I was just like, this shirt.
Couldn't have been the material. This fucking shirt is killing me.
What is this guy's shirt? What is this guy's deal? I've done a cruise ship. Say no more.
Yeah, I won a contest. And your prize uh to set your career back five years and do cruises uh and so i go out and i'm doing it and you got to do like you got to do a bunch of shows so you do 30 clean 30 dirty i never had dirty so it's like i couldn't even and then you would do one another show so you needed honest because sometimes these people would come back and watch multiple shows so you needed to have you know two hours of material or do crowd or be able to mess with the crowd or something and i remember we we go up and you would do one show at the beginning of it you do like five minutes each and it's kind of just like it's in the big theater and you're kind of just letting the crowd know we're comedians we got a show back here blah blah so the other guy uh just was great and knew how to like he shined a fly shot on the crowd like just knew how to like really play with the crowd always and he was like come to my shows every show is different and he like made a big announcement how they're all different and then i went up and i said my i go come to one it may be.
It may be the other one, but the other one will be the same.

I had to like, I was like, do not come to all my shows.

Most will be the same.

I don't have enough material to have them all be different.

So you can go to his shows.

They will be different.

Mine will be.

And then I went and did a show and it was, I started it and like they didn't laugh. And I was like, oh, these people have been to every show, and I'm not a crowd work guy, you know, and I'm like, so what do you do, man? And, you know, some guy's like, I'm an, he's an oil rigger in the ocean.
It's actually a pretty crazy job, and I was like, that's cool, and I just moved on. It's, like, insane.
People are saying crazy stuff, like, I'm a bank robber. I'm like, that's neat, man.
there i had nothing no riffing and then i had to ride in an elevator with these people i'm in i'm in the elevator in the ocean you think it sounds like i made it and i'm just sitting there and i had a hat on and i just hear some guy just trashing me and i'm my shoulders touching him and i just have to sit there oh my god. But they do separate them between clean and dirty on a cruise ship? That's exclusive to a cruise ship? Yeah, it would, you would just have a show that's like, the kids can come to this show, your family can come to this show and then you'd have like a night at, you know, 11 p.m.
is like an adult only show. You still can't be that dirty but it's, the idea of it is a little more, you know.
Yeah, you could have just dropped in a couple F-bombs just randomly. I get a curse as I talk about parking.
I'm like, you guys have a parallel parking lot. And they're like, this guy's filthy.
Yeah, I didn't even have any. I didn't even have, I had no dirty jokes.
Like there's no, I don't really, I don't talk about sex or like political. Like there's nothing like really like that's kind of like this what about political sex will you ever touch political sex is that something that you'd be willing that i will yeah if the right joke comes up sure sure you know it is funny it is remarkable how uh how clean your stand-up is and a lot of people it's it's such a weird thing to have to say to point it out but i guess it is is worthy of pointing out.
And it is, to me, such a testament to how profoundly funny you are. Honestly, and I hope it is a badge of honor for you.
It should be because it really, you find ways to talk about stuff and you don't need to swear. I swear like a...
Cosby never cursed. Famously never cursed.
Well, again, let's not try to look at, so let's not. But.
No, let's go down the avenue of Cosby and clean, you know? Yeah. This guy.
So, Nate, wait. Did you, so at home, what's it like at home? So, like, do you check out, do you run jokes by your wife? Does she okay them? Is she sick of hearing them? Like, what is that dynamic at home? I'll tell her.
Yeah. She knows about every joke that comes up.
Because that's something I had to learn when you make fun of your wife at the beginning is you have to show love. Like, you have to show...
Because people... Because I remember at the beginning, the reaction would be like, well, why are you married? And so then you're like, well, that's not what I want.
You don't need to have that reaction.

So you have to then make fun of yourself,

but with her,

and you got to do it in a way

where they can tell that you do love your wife,

you love your family,

and so it's just kind of like

just making fun of each other.

But yeah, I'll run by stuff.

But that comes across,

and you do that bit about the guy

coming to replace the water heater

in your other special, and you go, finally the guy realizes you don't know what you're talking about. He thinks, maybe this is a modern relationship.
And he says to Nate, the guy said, is your husband here? And then you go, yeah, I think she's here somewhere. It's so good.
And it is, like you said, you're self-deprecating. You're the butt of the joke, which I think is always such a winning combo.
You're not making fun of somebody. You're not having a laugh at somebody else's expense.
You're not putting somebody else down to make yourself funny, which is great. Yeah.
I just never liked it. Like, I felt bad.
I mean, I'll, like, make fun of my buddies and comics and stuff. Yeah, yeah.
But in the audience, you just, I just always felt, you know, it's like this person's just trying to sit there. They don't need it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he'll be, like, big, what's your shirt? Your shirt's stupid.
And then I got my shirt on tucked in. I go, right? Don't we all got stupid shirts? Yeah.
Do you still live in Tennessee? Yeah. I moved back.
So I was gone, gone like 13 years. And then we've been back for about nine.
Yeah. I hear it's beautiful down there.
Yeah, it's so good, right? Yeah. I'm born and raised there.
It's great. We have as much of a normal life as it can be.
We live in a cul-de-sac, the house at the top. So we're the leaders.
And we set the tone for it. I have a joke.
I'll just say it's my new act, Russ, and we do all, in our court of state, we do all the right things. Like if someone pulls down there, we're like, what are you doing down our street? Any car we don't know, we just run out.
You better get out of our court of state. I i mean just furious if they come down um brothers and sisters growing up i have a younger brother a younger sister uh yeah so you're the oldest of the three and do they do they are they finding you funny all the time or like yeah yeah yeah my brother's like three years younger than me my sister's about 10 i.
I've talked about her in a special, and she works for me now, too. So that's fun.
I mean, you get yelled at by her. I mean, you got your whole family.
You got your sisters working for you, and then you're on tour with your mom and dad and your aunt. That's cool, though.
That's cool. It's pretty rad.
I don't think you've said this, but you have kids you have kids yeah i have a 11 year old are you so nervous to ask him that by the way he's married he said he's not available what are the kids ages i did say before don't ask about if i have kids oh all right i guess okay uh yeah now i have one 11 year old daughter. 11-year-old daughter.
And what does it seem like she's going to want to do with her life? Does she want to? She loves horses right now. I don't know why.
Oh, that sounds expensive. That's expensive.
It is. I don't even know where, no one, we don't come from horse stuff, you know? You're not horse people? No, there's never horse people, but she loves horses.

So right now she's kind of doing that stuff.

But she's very creative, very funny, and she, you know, will get me and my wife laughing a lot, you know. I think I got to teach her where the joke, you got to be like, all right, well, you got to be serious.
Yeah, isn't that funny? It's like there's the age when they learn sarcasm,

they learn humor,

but they don't yet know when to stop the joke. They don't know when to do the joke.
But you don't want to shame them because you don't want to kill their spirit or their sense of humor. So you just got to kind of grin and bear with so many things in their life.
It's so incredible watching kids learn things that we forgot that we learned you know like it's amazing you know nothing until you learn it she can make fun of her friends recent and like i think but then they all got like it was like they did not like it and i was like and it was funny i forget what it was but it was like it was something funny but you're to understand. You're like, you got to, some people will be able to handle it.

Like, you know, she just is all about the joke because it's obviously just our, you know, her grandfather's a magician, a comedian.

Like, so it's, it's a lot of joking.

I think, yeah, I think that making fun of your friends is, is not a good path to go down.

It's not, um.

Unless it's Sean.

Successful.

Unless it's Sean. I mean, it's such a big button to hit.
No, I thought we were talking about friends. Yeah, Sean.
Oh, right. Yeah.
You know what I mean? You feel warm inside. Where's that? What's after Syracuse? Where do you go next? Albany.
Albany. So we started in...
Of course. Of course.
Yeah. And just fuck Schenectady? Like, what are you doing, dude? Yeah, this is the route.
I know we started last night. We were in Philly at the Fargo.
It was where the Sixers play. No way.
It was this big thing. And then it goes Syracuse, and then it'll go Albany.
And then these are the two that Fallon wanted to come to, with Syracuse and Albany. Yeah, of course.
Those are big venues. I think he's from up here, yeah.
He is. He's from upstate New York.
What arena or place are you playing tonight in Syracuse? The arena. The Carrier Dome probably, right? Is that what it is? No, no.
Is that used to be? No? Yeah. No, I've been to a game there.
That's like a huge. Okay.
I've been to a basketball game there. You can feel it.
Even when the basketball court's set up, people buy tickets that that are like i don't think they can see the court right they're sitting like behind the

court would there be a crowd that's just too big for for a comedy show where it's just like it's

it it needs to be a little bit more intimate like 20 000 people is like right at the max

maybe or or no yeah i mean it's all about how we feel we have like you know the arena's we have

these big screens uh we have i've put more speakers up so everybody can hear it everywhere and uh

I'm going to go the cool, it's one of the coolest things is when you're telling a joke and you're, this many people are quiet. Yeah.
You know, and they're just, I mean, you could, I could yell with no microphone and the top person could hear me. It gets that quiet.
That's so cool. So, yeah, I mean, I'd imagine if you did a stadium, you know, I could see it getting a little loose.
Right. You know, and we're in the middle, too, of an arena, so I'm a lot closer to everybody.
Do a hundred thou, do a hondo. Come on, mate.
Do a hondo. Do the big house in Michigan.
Have you ever had a moment where you kind of scare yourself a little bit by thinking about all the eyes that are looking at you and that they're not talking and that it is silent and that you might not be doing well and you can't leave for another 45 minutes? Are you scared you scared of the eyes i mean if you ever had a panic attack on a stage and know that you can't you can't leave for another hour i have uh yeah i mean you've done it so long now that you're it's just like your knees bent it's happened to me i mean yeah yeah i i mean i've done it now it's like yeah mean, you think about it. I had an SNL like a little bit when I did the monologue.
I was more nervous with the monologue because it's like stand up and you're like, I'm supposed to be good. And at this and then you got to kind of deliver the jokes into the camera.
But there's the crowd. And so like it was very weird to deliver jokes to kind of a spot where no one's at.
Right. And you're right on the heels of of sitting of standing back behind that flat behind the band right that little narrow little plank and the whole crowd is silent and they're counting down to that live moment to america like it becomes really tangible like you're not just live in front of you know you know a crowd it's beaming across you know the planet the planet.
Oh, yeah. Like, it's real tangible there.
Yeah, you're like, I could say anything right now, and they're going to hear it right now because it's live, you know. Yeah.
Remember when, I used to remember like 20 jokes when I was a kid. I used to love them.
And now I can only remember like one or two, but from back then, no, they're not that great. Go tell one, Jay.
Do you have any jokes? You want to hear a guy tell a joke inside out? Go ahead. I do get a little tripped up.
Do you have a joke from when you were a kid that you'll never forget? You may not use it in your act, but it's just like just a classic that was one of your favorites. Yeah, I't use it in my act to go you say you do i ain't no i didn't hang on to your like i kept it i still read a joke book when i was five and uh i'm closing on it uh it's i had i remember the joke it was i said there was a it was a joke book or something and there was a guy goes uh waiter there's a spider or there's a fly in my soup and then the waiter goes well don't worry the spider on your bread will get it and it was a picture of a spider and so my dad always brings i remember that joke and then my dad brought it up because i would like i was explaining why the joke was funny to him and like kind of going through it like here's why this is funny you know so that that that one was the first one but i i let it go do you guys have jokes from your from when you were a kid that you you'll never forget one joke that's appropriate to tell is there one like a go-to that you remember i had a joke book when i was really little it was you have a joke book now but anyway keep going it was it's not funny it's it was funny when i was like six years old it's like where do dead people go in your house and it was the living room i have one which is like people always say that ballet is really hard to do and so i always say just don't do it yeah oh see nate laughed nate laughed that was sean's opening joke when he did stand up and what and what is it this would probably be interesting for folks including me um what are the how do you do the economics of being a stand-up i'm assuming you have to bear all the costs of the trucks and the infrastructure and all that stuff and then you get to keep whatever you don't spend on what it costs to put the show up, right? And you're making your money based on ticket sales and merchandise, perhaps? Full stop.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, merch is not the biggest thing in stand-up.
Why? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we've had it, we've done it at shows and it's just, it's not like a concert or people don't.
Like I was saying,, stand-up's still kind of, it's kind of a newer thing. Like, Cosby's, like, one of the first, he's still alive.
And, like, you know, like, he knew Lenny Bruce. Don't, you gotta, if I could give you one piece of advice.
If we could just lose the Cosby references. Well, if we could get it down to single digits, it would be great.
Yeah. You know what? I'm going to send you a couple articles.
Harvey Weinstein and I once set up an LLC. But so you've got this huge apparatus, right? But, you know, you could do it without it.
You get, like, a deal. So you have promoters, and then, yeah, you are, I think it's, like, the promoter's the one that's putting the money for, like, the renting of the venue.
Right. And then I'm paying, then it comes out of mind, the show budget of the speakers and all that stuff.
And so you can have it go as low or as big as you want it to go. Who's your manager? Who are your peeps? Brillstein.
Brillstein and UTA. Yeah.
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By the way, backing way up to the beginning of this interview, what is Bargatze? What is the nationality of Bargatze? It's Italian. Oh, it is? First of all, don't spit it out like that.
It's Bargatze. Like his haze.
What is Bargatze? What is the nationality of Bargatze? Oh, it is? First of all, don't

spit it out like that.

What is Bargatze?

What the fuck is Hayes, son of a bitch?

Sorry, Nate.

Jesus.

By the way, what the fuck is Bargatze?

I've just never heard

of him. This has really been a bee in my

bonnet for a minute.

How do you even spell that?

I know.

I can't even begin to spell it.

I kind of, I knew that, but I forgot that I knew that.

Italian, wow.

Yeah, I think we say it wrong as a family, too.

I think it's supposed to be Bargatze, and we say Bargatze.

Like, it's just, we've Southerned it up.

Oh, I say Bargatze.

Yeah, I think a lot of people would.

Don't people say Bargatze?

When I lived in New York, they would always be like, Bargatze,

because it's like Italian, and I was like, you know. Bargatze.
I was like, I don't like tomatoes. Do you have family in Italy? I don't, you know.
You don't know. I think we've all agreed to kind of go.
We had a family reunion once, and we had family come over from Italy, and we got Kentucky Fried Chicken for them. And I think it was like from that moment, it was just kind of like, all right, y'all have a good life.
We did it. We're going to do our thing.
We got to do y'all's thing. And we just kind of gone our separate ways.
Nate, what do you like to do? Do you in your free time? And you've got a lot of time like on a bus or you're touring or on the plane or whatever. What do you what do you watch? What are the things? Are you a sports guy? Do you watch other stand-ups? Is it Candy Crush? How are you occupying your minutes? Yeah, I'm a big sports guy.
So I watch a lot of golf, like any sports, golf, UFC. I watch a lot of UFC.
Oh, you do? Yeah, I'm a big fan of UFC. I wanted to peg that.
I wanted to peg you for a big UFC. It's just the most the honesty of it with like Dane DeWight just in the fighters they can say whatever they want and so there's no, you know like when Tom Brady, is he going to retire or not retire it's like it's all kind of a game and a show and UFC kind of really is like we just got a dude that just says I want to fight this guy.
Right. And then it just gets to it.
And you're, I don't know, I kind of like, I love it. But there's no romance to that too, though, right? Like the kind of...
There's the buildup to it. I mean, then they get in the, you know, then they don't like each other.
And then you're, you know, and then you go in there and watch them fight. It's not just watching a street fight.
You're watching two professionals that have to like fill each other out. Yeah.
So you watch UFC, you watch golf, you like to play golf. You play golf when you're on the road? Some.
It gets hard, but it's because of the shows and stuff. But, yeah, I'll play some on the road.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's kind of it. I mean, I don't know.
It's like you're just running around, got a lot of stuff, a lot of hanging out. Like, the road is the most fun because it's just, like, a bunch of dudes.
And, you know, this morning we went in Syracuse. And this place has a hot and cold plunge thing.
Sure. Will loves it.
So I've never done it. But they let us come in.
So, like, we woke up and did that. Wait, who is Boo Weekly? I saw something.
Oh, yeah. What is that? So this is another.
I told it on SNL. I tell it in my act, too.
But at Boo Weekly, because I have a joke about fighting orangutan at a county fair. Okay.
And where I read the story was there's a golfer named Boo Weekly. And when he read, he said when he was 15, he got in.
He goes to this county fair.

He's from like southern Georgia.

This is like the 80s, you know.

And you could pay $5 to fight an orangutan.

A orangutan would be in a boxing ring with boxing gloves.

And so dudes would pay $5 to fight him.

That's hysterical.

Yeah, and then guys would get in there, and this orangutan would just knock people out. Because when I say this, I tell the whole story in my act, but I say because we didn't have the internet to look up how strong is an orangutan.
It was all word of mouth back then. So, you know, you had to meet a guy that just fought an orangutan.
And he's like, he's stronger than you think.

You know, but the arms are so skinny.

I know.

That's what I thought as well.

And the reach.

It's the reach.

It's the jabs. It's the feet.

Look at his feet.

His feet's quicker than you.

Yeah, that strength comes from somewhere.

And they'll rip your face off too if they want.

Well, that's what Buickie said.

He goes, that's not written everywhere back in 1982 when you're fighting orang regular. The guy that does this doesn't go, you sign a waiver and you don't realize until afterwards, that's why he has gloves on.
If it's thinking, if it gets the gloves off, there's a chance it will rip your head off. So, but what are you going to do, ride the scrambler again uh yeah oh i wonder if that's still in existence anywhere in the country i bet there's still a place so they peter i think peter got a hold of a lot of this sure and uh they knocked those things down and that one they were like you can't do that we're like all right we thought they liked.
I'm glad you just had to tell us and we got rid of it. Fair enough.
Nate, what are you going to do today before the show? Tell them you're busy. It was this and then, yeah, it was just this.
I don't have any. So your pack.
I got to read where I'm messing up some of the order a little bit so I do that a little. And then we'll just hang out and be at the venue if there's –

we do try to shoot basketball.

Like some of these arenas, if they have a basketball goal somewhere,

we'll try to, like, mess around and shoot basketball

and just kind of, you know, do whatever until showtime.

And then you're going on tour.

You got a new special.

You're shooting a new special.

In Phoenix, yeah.

You love Phoenix. You love – you did another – you did your last special in Phoenix were shooting a new special.
In Phoenix, yeah. You love Phoenix.

You love, you've taught,

you did another,

you did your last special in Phoenix, right?

I did my last special there.

And this one's gonna be

in the Footprint Center

where the Suns play.

So it's,

it's, yeah, it's,

yeah, I mean,

it just kind of works out

like touring-wise.

Like you just hit these towns

like every two years or so.

And so it just kind of like.

And your family goes with you?

Or do they stay home?

They do some.

Yeah, yeah.

We went to Europe.

Like they came to Europe.

They could- touring-wise, like, you just hit these towns, like, every two years or so. And so it's just kind of like...
And your family goes with you? Or do they stay home? They do some. Yeah, yeah.
We went to Europe. Like, they came to Europe.
They come to the, you know, they're not here in Syracuse or Albany. But they, if they're, I'm doing the Boston Guard, and they're going to come to Boston.
Okay. Tell them to join you out in Phoenix for some of the best pizza in the world, as voted by the voters.

By the people.

At Chris Bianco's.

At Chris Bianco's Pizza.

Go get something. Nate, can you do,

I saw you do this one thing a long time ago.

You don't have to do it,

but if you're like, I gotta go.

But one of the funniest things I ever saw you do.

Sorry, dude.

Do you want me to stand up and do my act?

Do you mind?

Actually, if you just show us your tits real quick

and then go to show.

Would you mind doing it topless?

Sorry, Sean. Show us your tits real quick and then go to Sean.
Would you mind doing it topless? Sorry, Sean.

Show us your tits real quick.

No, one of the funniest things was it was a story about meeting your wife's ex-boyfriend.

Yeah, on the boat?

Yeah.

Yeah, we went.

I got to remember it.

But we went to, it happened. We're on the lake, Old Hickory Lake.
Is that true? Yeah. And we're in, we're like in the water.
And then it's, my wife's ex-boyfriend was on another boat. Right.
And I didn't see him and she pointed it out, like there's no reason to point it out. But she pointed it out.
So then, yeah, like, all I can think of now, like, I'm thinking about him. And then I look at her, and she's looking at him, and I feel like she's looking at him to see what her life would be like if she didn't marry me.
And I was looking at him to see what my life would be like if I didn't marry her. So we're both putting a lot of pressure on this guy yeah and then my buddy told me he's

he's like you should go fight him and i was like what guys like he's on a boat like i gotta i gotta swim over to that fight yeah have you ever tried to climb in a boat from water it's not it's not graceful it's not easy you don't come in with power i would need his help to start the fight right

I think that was

yeah

that was

it's so funny

but i just i mean we've we can all relate to meeting x exes you know our current exes i don't know it's never good but i yeah i don't my yeah i don't really have exes but all right well i got my one talking about i know i didn't go i know but that's what made it frustrating I don't I had no one to go show my wife well here's mine yeah I was just gonna meet what do you mean cause you what is she your high school sweetheart or something? no we started dating like 20 21 we met at Applebee's we both waited tables at Applebee's I was a host at the time but oh that's great I love that you that. You don't need to scream.
I mean. Well, stuff is going, you know.
Sounds like it's all good in the neighborhood. What are we? Yeah, we're all in the neighborhood.
We're all in the neighborhood or something. Yeah, in the neighborhood.
But we're big fans. We took our daughter.
What was your favorite thing on the Applebee's menu? Here we go. They had the chicken broccoli alfredo.
I'd get no broccoli, you know? Yeah. Get that out of there.

I hear ya.

And then I'd say put it on the side

just so the guy thinks I'm going to eat it.

Then he would just take a full plate of broccoli back after.

I'd go, ah, I got full on the other stuff.

That's so true.

Like we're worried what they think, yeah.

Yeah.

Watch this.

Do you think that's impressive?

Sean, Applebee's menu backwards. Go.
Cobbler. Apple cobbler.
Of those kinds of restaurants. Chinese chicken salad.
Pretty good. I'll eat that.
Every place makes a Chinese chicken salad now. That's kind of like the new molten lava cake.
Every place has a Chinese chicken salad. What makes it a Chinese chicken salad? Is it just because of the ginger dressing? They're the only ones that don't eat it.
No. And those crispy noodles.
The crispy noodles and the... Yeah, you get the crispy...
Chin chin. Listen, Sean, I don't have to tell you.
Chin chin. Chin chin.
Chin chin does the best one. Yeah.
One of the best ones. One of the best ones.
Yeah, one of the best ones.

Sean's highlighting his Chin Chin Chin.

Wait, so of all those kinds of restaurants,

I forget what you call them. Are they big box restaurants?

No, chain restaurants.

Chain restaurants. Have y'all not been to one in a while?

Like, it's been a minute,

but I did like to see, and your new special,

Nate says, everything I learned,

I don't know a lot that came from a big,

like a building, like a higher education building. Everything I learned, I overheard at a Target or a Lowe's.
The Lowe's. The line of Lowe's.
Everything I overheard. Yeah, we're big chain.
I mean, I grew up, like we're, you know, I had an old joke about like I was a big, I don't like mom and pop shops because they can close. Just they're like, we don't feel good today, and they close.
Like Walmart, they were a mom and pop shop at some point, and then they got it together and became unreal. I like those too.
I like mom and pop shops. Here's what I like.
I like Chili's, and I'm not afraid to say. They have the great chocolate lava cake.
If you want one, go to Chili's. Go to Chili's.
And they also have the great... They used to have the Southwest egg rolls or whatever.
They used to have those things. They were great.
Me and Dax used to always go to... God, I love a Chili's.
What about Outback? They any good with the Bloomin' Ony? Yeah, yeah. We go to Outback a good bit.
Scotty worked at TGIF. Oh, I used to love that.
That's good, too. That's fun.
That's an intimidating menu. Dr.
Pepper's doing some pretty amazing things right now. So if you are into Dr.
Pepper, Diet Dr. Pepper, they got some real good stuff going on.
And some cherry, right? They got some cream soda, strawberry stuff. I mean, it's something, dude.
They're showing off over there. Did we ever get any confirmation on the doctor portion of the Pepper? Like, did we ever see documentation to prove that he graduated? He's a just diet.
What kind of doctor was he? Yeah, I mean. Dr.
Pep. I do like Diet Dr.
Pepper too. And I'm going to say this.
I like their TV ads. Yeah.
I think they're funny. The college football ads.
I think they're real clever. Nate, before I let you go, how do you know Greg Garcia? How did that happen? This son of a gun, speaking of son of a guns.
So I, we, I've, I've tried to make a bunch of shows that have never gone. We've had one show that we shot a pilot and, and so Greg came in.
I did not know him, but he came in, uh, Danielle Sanchez Witzel. Uh, she was show running it and she's friends with Greg.
And so Greg came in to help us do it. And I, I knew Greg Garcia's work, but I didn't know him when he first came in.
So when he first came in and he's like, he's going to help us. And I was like, I don't know who this dude is.
Yeah. I got to listen to this guy.
And then we wrote our whole, rewrote the whole script on his, off just his ideas. Because they were so good.
And obviously he's unreal. Yeah.
And so we just become really close and become friends. I was just with him this week, actually, at dinner with him.
Because I had to to L.A. for a second.
So, yeah, we became friends like that. He comes out on the road, too.
I'm telling you, y'all come out on the road. If you want to get away and have a little fun trip, come on out.
Dude, that would actually be really, really fun if you mean it. It's a fun thing.
If you mean it. I swear, Fallon's coming tonight.
Oh, yeah, Fallon's coming. We have a fun time.
You just play cards or you play, you know, like we went to a casino last night in Philadelphia. Sean, I mean, first of all, this is your dream.
They go to a casino and they're going to chain restaurants. I mean, you know, every single, every Cracker Barrel has got skit marks in front from Sean's car.
Cracker Barrel is one we didn't touch on. I've not been there, but I hear that's the one.
Anywhere that can handle bus parking is all changed. Well, Greg Garcia is one of the all-time great guys.
Super, super funny guy. One of the funniest pranks.
He always, I'm not really like a a big pranks guy but he is so funny i had a long joke and a prank and i just he's such a great guy so yeah that makes sense that you guys would be pals um well listen i'm gonna return the the offer and say next time you're out here in california let's go play golf man and hang out grab some lunch. Such a huge fan of yours, dude.

Honestly, you're just the funniest, funniest, funniest dude.

So funny.

It's so good to see you.

So exciting to see you.

Just more and more and more people appreciate you.

Really happy for your success.

Truly, truly, truly.

Yeah, man.

Thank you.

Yeah, thanks for having me on.

Nate, thank you for doing this.

What a thrill.

Thank you for saying it.

What a thrill.

All right, the great Nate Bergazzi.

Thank you, buddy.

Thank you, Nate.

Thanks, Nate.

Thank you, guys. See you, man.
Have fun. Bye.
The great Nate. The great Nate.
The great Nate. God, is he funny.
Yeah. Like old school, clean, good, hilarious, nonstop funny.
Hilarious. Yeah.
God. He just seems like a real kind fella, you know? Yeah, I can't see him getting upset.
I'm sure you could figure out a way to piss him off. How would you, what would be your strategy if you really wanted to get Nate pissed off? I'd ask him questions over, I'd ask him the same thing over and over again, like I didn't understand.
No, I think he'd be very patient with that. I don't think that would be his button pusher.
No, but like if you just went just went on and on about something like you just really honestly truly didn't understand i think it pisses anybody off i wonder like what are you not getting right yeah you know what i mean no we have a pretty high threshold like we have a pretty decent amount of patience for you in that regard what is the thing what is the thing that gets you guys to anger quicker than anything else? Stupidity. People who don't think like I do.
I have a short fuse for stuff like, yeah, I don't suffer. I have a short fuse for like, yeah, people who are incompetent or like can't, like don't have common sense about like easy things.
And then in the meantime, I'm the dumbest person on the planet and I probably do the same thing. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I hate when people like punch down, you know? Yes. Like mean to people because they know they can be.
Yeah. Yeah.
So lazy. Yeah.
Yeah. It is.
Punch down either, especially if it, you know, we do do a lot of joking around and we love to sort of rip each other and stuff, but anytime I see somebody who likes to, and we talked about with Nate, who likes to get a laugh at somebody else's expense. Yeah, yeah.
Or, you know what else hits pissing me off? Confident ignorance. That can also be super funny, though.
Yeah, sometimes. Well, and a character it can be.
Right, you have to do it on purpose. But yeah, a person who is much smarter or much more confident than they have a right to be is just grating.
Because you have to spend an effort to convince them that you're buying it. Right.
But if you have no dog in that fight and you're just observing that person, it can be hilarious. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that is true. That is true.
By the way, I love playing those characters. Yeah, I do too.
The character that's just an alpha everywhere, and then the tough guy walks in, and then they're beta. Hi, beta.
Right, right, right, right, right. Exactly.
But, Nate, we should go see his show when he's out he's so funny i think we should meet him in phoenix and go get some of that bianco pizza we should and then play some golf over there you know you're not playing golf anymore not till october i have to be disciplined you know i know i mean we can go we can go to nate's here it comes we can go to his show and participate, or we can go and just be a bunch of bystanders. So dumb when we do that.
Smart. Yes.
Smart. Yes.
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