{"id":46319,"date":"2025-09-07T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/stand-up-nate-bargatze-on-operating-in-the-chaos\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:59:43","slug":"stand-up-nate-bargatze-on-operating-in-the-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/stand-up-nate-bargatze-on-operating-in-the-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand-up Nate Bargatze on operating in &#8220;the chaos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>2024 was a historic year for comedian Nate Bargatze. As the highest-grossing stand-up in the country, he set attendance records at several massive arenas. But a small gymnasium in Nashville \u2013 the home of the Donelson Christian Academy Wildcats \u2013 is where he&#8217;s recently made his mark. He&#8217;s donated more than a million dollars to his alma matter, which now features the Nate Bargatze Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Bargatze never played on this court: &#8220;Yeah, I was cut every year from my basketball team,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But now, you know, now they can&#8217;t cut you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donelson Christian Academy is a private high school his family could only afford because his father taught here. &#8220;My freshman year, he&#8217;s assistant coach,&#8221; Bargatze said. &#8220;So that really got it started. When your dad cuts you, it kind of sets the tone for the rest of your high school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/06\/e188aa91-3de2-4452-a83d-3b5d5937e985\/thumbnail\/620x349\/2ea70635b74c804fc4b4d422718c4417\/at-the-nate-bargatze-gymnasium.jpg#\" alt=\"at-the-nate-bargatze-gymnasium.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/06\/e188aa91-3de2-4452-a83d-3b5d5937e985\/thumbnail\/620x349\/2ea70635b74c804fc4b4d422718c4417\/at-the-nate-bargatze-gymnasium.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/06\/e188aa91-3de2-4452-a83d-3b5d5937e985\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/5f5e344d0758ce1d3f210f5a85fd9057\/at-the-nate-bargatze-gymnasium.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Comedian Nate Bargatze with Conor Knighton, at the Nate Bargatze Gymnasium. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nate&#8217;s father, Stephen Bargatze, also happens to be a professional magician. Before that, he was a clown. As you might imagine, that provided some inspiration for a career in comedy \u2013 and for some early stand-up material:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s funny, too, when I tell people my dad was a clown. People will just be like &#8216;Ugh, I hate clowns.&#8217; Hey, remember that time I just said my dad was a clown?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After dropping out of community college, Bargatze moved from Nashville to Chicago, where he honed his style performing for free at small clubs. &#8220;I would never trade it, and I would never go back,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You just didn&#8217;t know no better. There&#8217;s nothing better than when you don&#8217;t know that there&#8217;s better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then made the move to New York. But in 2014, just as his stand-up career was taking off, Bargatze made a surprising move back home to Nashville. <\/p>\n<p>Why? &#8220;You know what? I always thought it was the first thing I did that wasn&#8217;t for me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I wanted my daughter to grow up in a normal situation, as normal as it can be. And so it was like, &#8216;All right, let&#8217;s move back.&#8217; And when I moved back, I just didn&#8217;t tell anybody.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;Were you worried that there was going to be an impression that, like, &#8216;Well, he moved back to Nashville, he&#8217;s given up&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t tell anybody, &#8217;cause I thought they would think I&#8217;d quit,&#8221; Bargatze said. &#8220;And I was so scared of that. So, I just didn&#8217;t say anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody would ever think that now. Bargatze has since released five hour-long specials, written a New York Times bestselling book, and sold more than a million tickets last year alone.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know anything about history. And I can tell, because every history movie I watch, I watch on the edge of my seat. I watched &#8216;Pearl Harbor,&#8217; I was as surprised as they were.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His next milestone? Hosting the Primetime Emmy Awards next Sunday on CBS. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love show business,&#8221; he said while recording promotional material for the awards. &#8220;I love all of this. And as part of me, I want to do everything. You&#8217;re just curious to go, like, <em>Well, what is that like? What is that, you know, when you do &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217;?<\/em>\u00a0It&#8217;s like, I want to see the chaos. I want to feel the chaos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bargatze has hosted &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; twice. [&#8220;I&#8217;m as shocked as you are that I&#8217;m here,&#8221; he said in his monologue.] His &#8220;Washington&#8217;s Dream&#8221; sketch became one of the most viral sketches in years: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JYqfVE-fykk?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JYqfVE-fykk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington&#8217;s Dream &#8211; SNL<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SaturdayNightLive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s more acting on the horizon. Bargatze just finished filming his first feature, &#8220;The Breadwinner,&#8221; costarring Mandy Moore, set to hit theaters next spring. His character is a bumbling dad \u2013 a role he says is not too dissimilar from his real-life personality. &#8220;We eased into it,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I ain&#8217;t crying in this movie, I can tell you that. In the movie, I have three daughters and, you know, I have one daughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh my gosh, give him the Academy Award right now,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah. Yeah,&#8221; he laughed. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of buzz about it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bargatze met his wife, Laura, when he was 21; they were coworkers at an Applebee&#8217;s. As he recounted in the 2017 special &#8220;The Standups,&#8221; &#8220;I went from, like, my mom to her. So, I don&#8217;t even know what it feels like not to have some lady be like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know if I would do <em>that<\/em>, you know?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their daughter, Harper, introduces his stand-up specials, which are intentionally family-friendly. He&#8217;s a clean comic. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love that people when they come to my show, it&#8217;s, uh, I don&#8217;t wanna betray that trust,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You can have your kid watch my stand-up and you don&#8217;t like, if you see &#8217;em have it on, you don&#8217;t have to be like, &#8216;Whoa, what&#8217;s going on?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/06\/21d51307-d341-479d-a034-a1af01112a75\/thumbnail\/620x465\/8d0ef4ec6f234f756f7f4a2775e64840\/nate-bargatze-int-1280.jpg#\" alt=\"nate-bargatze-int-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/06\/21d51307-d341-479d-a034-a1af01112a75\/thumbnail\/620x465\/8d0ef4ec6f234f756f7f4a2775e64840\/nate-bargatze-int-1280.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/06\/21d51307-d341-479d-a034-a1af01112a75\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/6c003b573fffa3ddb56921c1708fcee5\/nate-bargatze-int-1280.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Comedian Nate Bargatze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While working clean can be a savvy business decision, it allows one to sell tickets to the widest audience possible. For Bargatze, it&#8217;s also part of a larger mission. He said, &#8220;You feel like you&#8217;re being asked to do this and the career that I have. And so, you just gotta trust that, uh, your path is gonna be the path, and just stick with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;When you say asked to do this, do you mean in like sort of a religious calling kind of a way?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;You feel \u2013 you know, I feel it&#8217;s beyond me.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;Good Clean Funny&#8221; as its mantra, Bargatze&#8217;s company, Nateland, produces specials, live events, and podcasts featuring other clean comedians. He even has dreams of one day opening his own theme park and movie studio in Nashville. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna be able to go to every city in America for the rest of my life,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, I want to build a place where you can come. And if you and your wife and your kids are 11 and they want to go run off on their own for a second, I want that to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To pull off all of his ambitious plans, one of the most successful touring comedians of all time is already plotting the end of his touring days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m doing this tour, I plan on doing one more tour after that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I need to go do movies, and I need to build that world up and learn how to do all of that stuff. So, I&#8217;m gonna dive into that aspect of it. I can see myself being and making movies for, like, another 15 years, and then \u2013 if I&#8217;m allowed to! I mean, it might all fall apart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These days, during breaks on his grueling tour schedule, Bargatze is able to briefly take his mind off stand-up by playing golf. &#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s kind of like stand-up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re kind of out there on your own. Golf is, uh, you&#8217;re so much like thinking about what you&#8217;re doing out there. I realized, like, I can&#8217;t turn my brain off, so I just need to direct it to something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bargatze has a lot to focus on. The day before he hosts the Emmys in Los Angeles, he&#8217;s performing two back-to-back arena shows in Denver. But he wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I know how to kind of operate in this chaos. And if you pulled me out and gave me a month off, I think I would be like lost right now. Let&#8217;s keep going. We&#8217;re in a good groove. You don&#8217;t want to kind of stop the groove. Yeah, it&#8217;ll be a lot of stuff. It&#8217;s <em>a lot of stuff!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEB EXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-comedian-nate-bargatze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Watch an extended interview with Nate Bargatze (Video)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-comedian-nate-bargatze\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Extended interview: Comedian Nate Bargatze<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">41:42<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced by David Rothman. 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