Name: Ep 115: Nate Bargatze
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 115: Nate Bargatze' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-20. Transcript available.

Ep 115: Nate Bargatze

hey here we are we might be drunk we're back we're doing it
Nate Bargatze everybody what's shaking buddy one of our faves this is exciting
for us
it's been a while yeah I know 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
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 he was
and then I ended
up going to his show after my show and it's like just cool to see jokes in an
arena you know where
was it say oh he was in the St. Louis arena what uh 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
uh 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 should I was like I don't
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 uh you beat her they go yeah just stalling for Chappelle
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'll
just do 90 like I don't I don't know you don't have it in yet I'm the same way
I'm like I gotta there's
a I can do what I got yeah whatever whatever sitting on yeah whatever they tell
me whatever
I'm like I have to do I'm like that I feel like I 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 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
into 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 uh
big J uh Caroline's for uh 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 but there uh it was uh 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 it's a 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 right you
have to have an older
headliner who you have to have an older 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'd
have 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 it 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 like me Veeder 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 but it was like it was like a you know one of the like a showcase
show so it's like
five white comics right yeah and five low energy whites yes yes yeah and
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 yeah he was funny as hell though
Paul Mooney really was a
funny dude I mean he's a legend but he he would he would somebody he was
another dude that would do
like two and a half hours if he felt like it just sitting there yeah I like
that's uh maybe you get
I don't know you know I don't try to think if you ever get to that point where
you just could go up
there and you know 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 3rd 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
switching putting that
in this new one but then 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 cut 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
what don't you said the special's coming up I mean so I had some people come oh
like you said
you're not your closer's almost there not there do you want a new hour by the
time a special yeah yeah
yeah that I mean it's very hard it's very hard it was October and when we taped
and so
so but I mean it's a new tour I put all new material you know you put all I put
all this
stuff on it uh and uh but I I think I'll have it I think 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 surprised to be
like well this I mean the special's 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 two people have seen your act well 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 if 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 did 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 they hear one old
thing they just
think ah he's doing I had that a mix recently a guy I did three old jokes and
the whole rest of the
hour is new and somebody goes 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
three old jokes
and but if you say it then there go he I mean he was like all new he did an old
joke right
like and you could you could probably do 20 minutes of old at the end but they
would think it
yeah the other way exactly but I don't you know but I got to get new stuff the
hard part to get
new stuff now is uh just you get busy you know I'm busy and like you're uh I I
variance yeah doing
a press you're doing all this press to promote doing all the press the special
right it's hard to
yeah it's hard to work out and it's hard to live uh like live you know go live
normal yeah totally
you can't be like I got this press bit yeah you know that's not really yeah you
guys do podcast
interviews or you do yeah no it drains you on your diet coke yeah he goes
memory 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's why I love Veeder because I
remember when we were
all brand new comics and I'd be like everyone be like how much time do you have
everyone be like
I got 45 they'd be open micers where they say that shit I'd ask Veeder and he'd
be like
19 yeah you never have as much it's in this this new hour I thought I because I
did an hour
uh one night and then it was like and then I mean it was like two nights later
I just to cut
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 it down 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 I'm just 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 is going to 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 of the 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 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 as 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 like you see that when they're too good you get
confident and
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 gotta if
you're you gotta be aware of it you 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 too uh you know then you can do it
forever like i i started
like burr look after the i talked about this today but with opian anthony when
he had the rant the philly rant
uh i remember going to watch him at carolines 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 this
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
you know it's like well quickly that becomes that's what you're doing yeah and
then that guy
and then it's like then that's to