NATE BARGATZE: The Tennessee Kidder

A Grammy-nominated comedian and podcaster with 10 appearances on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and 4 appearances on Conan. His debut Comedy Central special, Full-Time Magic, and his debut album, Yelled At By a Clown, reached #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts and remained on Billboard’s Top Ten Comedy Charts for weeks. Bargatze’s half-hour Netflix special on The Standups, premiered in 2017, and his first solo one-hour Netflix special, The Tennessee Kid, premiered globally to rave reviews in 2019. In 2021, he released his second Netflix special, The Greatest Average American, which received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album. He regularly performs at Bonnaroo, SXSW, Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, and Sasquatch! Music Festival, Clusterfest, and the JFL Montreal Comedy Festival. Nate was featured as one of Esquire's ‘Best New Comedians’ by Jim Gaffigan, one of Marc Maron's ‘Comedians to Watch’ in Rolling Stone, one of Variety’s ‘10 Comics to Watch’ for 2015, and as #1 on Vulture's ‘50 Comedians You Should Know’ in 2015. His weekly podcast, Nateland, tackles the meaningless issues that we face day to day. In this episode Nate shares what it is like to be from a funny family, he gives his picks for the Mount Rushmore of Comedy and we explore the notion of starting a sanctuary in Nate’s name to protect gummy bears.