Name: Joe Helped Nate Bargatze Get Onstage the First Time
Uploaded: 2021-03-17T17:55:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Helped Nate Bargatze Get Onstage the First Time' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Helped Nate Bargatze Get Onstage the First Time' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-17. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience so I when I've started I've moved to actually I have a
story with you about first starting oh you were responsible for basically the
first time I ever went on stage I mean almost in a comment I think Zany
Chicago might have been the first actual club I went to is either that or the
comedy store so I was friends with a buddy my Josh Baker he was in the band
Prom Kings do you remember band I think yeah yeah and so we came out to LA to
stay hanging out with him and he and so they knew you and so this is I mean I
think it's 2003 or 4 and I've been doing comedy maybe a year and so we come out
and then we you invite us to the show at the comedy store so we come watch you
we
sit in the front row I remember all this stuff that's like a nightmare as a
comic
now when you think back then I didn't care had you been thinking about doing
it already I already started I moved to Chicago so I was in I was in Chicago
with
like Hannibal and Pete Holmes and TJ Miller and Kumail like that was kind of
the
group that was in Chicago so I'm we went from Chicago to LA to go just visit
and so
we hung out with them we go to your show you introduced them at one of their
shows because I guess you were good friends with these people are with the
with the band or you like this band and so you introduced them and I remember I
talked to you afterwards like I we were like at the show and I'm like talking
about comedy I'm trying not to be I'm a new comic so I don't even really know
what to ask you were very very nice and then we go watch you then you said you
gonna go up at the comic store I was like it was when you had to sign up for
the
open mic the week later so you sign up for the Monday to go up the next week
and I
was like well I was like I'm not gonna be here and you go I'll call and then
you
got me on stage that you called and said hey he's just in town doing this I'm
gonna do I'm a year
comic look at it so it worked out it worked out dude they brought me up they
go uh this next comic's uh one of Joe Rogan's best friends and then they were I
mean the other comics are just furious and I'm like I don't I was like we met
him
last night he's a very nice guy yeah that's a funny thing man the those little
like nudges and like uh little pieces of good like uh like criticism or good
you
know a praise from a comic when you're starting out like that could go so far
so far so far I remember to this day like Lenny Clark I done stand up I'd done
it for like a year and I'd
gotten paid one time before this is the second time I ever got paid and I
opened
up for Lenny Clark in Pittsfield Massachusetts this was I think I've done this
show really gig yeah is it Jay's Jay's and Pitts was it in a hotel um I don't
think so
I've done a Pittsfield mask oh it was uh like a nightclub and it was it was
like one of the best
road gigs like everybody get it was a three-hour drive from Boston but it was
one of those road
gigs where everybody would get excited and this was after Lenny had been on HBO
he was on the
Johnny Dangerfield's young comedian special the Ronnie whatever Ronnie called
it and so see just being
around him was crazy and then opening for him was even more crazy and then
after I got off stage he
was like kid you're really funny like with that crazy Boston accent and man
that powered me through
like years for three years I was gee I was like oh man I'm doing this like I'm
I'm never quitting now
like Lenny Clark said I'm funny fuck yeah I'm good it's the it's the it's
gigantic yeah like that was
you doing that at that time a I knew the comedy store but it's not like I even
really and then it
was like going to New York and then be like I've already done the comedy store
and even though it was
the open mic it was just I saw the world and I got to see the world and then
talking to you at
the band you were just talking about going up and like you got to go up like
you know
stuff that you would say to comics but it was like stuff that I didn't know at
that time
and you realize you know that that's enormous yeah that's enormous I did that
Pittsfield mask gig
uh I because I was in New York I opened up for Tony V
oh I love Tony V yeah and they I was the host got paid 500 bucks it was crazy
like I was like this is
crazy I've never been paid 500 bucks for a gig right it's packed sold out I
mean you just murder and I
thought maybe it wasn't a hotel I don't remember what my wife with me it was a
big night they give
me 500 bucks cash I end up later on tonight I lose the 500 dollars oh no it
just falls out why so the
night goes from this amazing night with my wife for 500 bucks to now we're in a
fight and uh I and but I
I mean I still think I'd tell her every day because at the time I was like you
ever going to remember
this 500 dollars like I always kind of live by that motto like I'll get another
500 dollars and I bring
it up still I mean it's been 15 years and I still just go you remember that 500
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