Nate Bargatze is everyone’s favorite “clean” comedian—and in this episode of “For The Record,” he’s taking us behind the scenes of his epic career moments. From the viral ‘SNL’ sketch he’s sure George Washington would be proud of, to his first appearance on ‘Fallon’ looking like he sells boats for a living, Nate never fails to make us laugh. Here, the comedian reveals why his acting coach advised him to skip his ‘Entourage’ audition and shares how he wins the crowd back after his dad opens for him on tour. Plus, Nate raves about the voice text he received from Jerry Seinfeld that he plans on keeping forever.
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00:00No matter how famous you are, you're not Seinfeld famous.
00:03Hi, I'm Nate Bargetsy.
00:05This is For the Record.
00:08OK, let's get started.
00:10This picture is me playing George Washington.
00:12Never thought I would have a connection with George
00:15Washington, and I'm sure this is one that if he was here,
00:18he would be proud of, and I'd get to meet him.
00:20That's what I like to picture.
00:21Like, I'd get to meet him, and he'd be like, hey.
00:23And he's like, oh, you're the, and I go, yeah, yeah.
00:26And then that would be about it.
00:27This is the most viral thing I've ever done.
00:30It got passed around everywhere.
00:32It still gets passed around now.
00:33It was fun to get to be a part of something that known
00:36with the show Saturday Night Live.
00:38It perfectly played to my strengths.
00:41It did not go off as good in table read,
00:44but I knew once we got in front of an audience,
00:46my timing be off that crowd, that it would do good.
00:49And so we did it in dress rehearsal last.
00:51It destroyed, and then so then it went on to what it's become.
00:57This photo, this is an appearance with Fallon.
01:00Yeah, this is my old look.
01:02It looked like I just sell boats for a living.
01:04It looked like Jester Beeper wasn't going to make it.
01:06This is what he would have looked like.
01:08Or if he just was a dad.
01:09A Canadian dad, this is where he would have been.
01:12Which of your Fallon appearances sticks out to you the most?
01:15The first time, I got to just do the couch.
01:16Mostly, I'm doing stand-up, and maybe you
01:19get to go sit on the couch.
01:20So when I was able to just go straight to the couch,
01:23that was a big checkoff moment that you entered into a different spot in your career.
01:28To get to do it all with Jimmy has made it unbelievable.
01:32This photo is in New York for SNL 50, New York Comedy Club.
01:36It used to be the Eastfield Comedy Club.
01:38And it's me, Todd Berry, Jim Gaffigan, Mark Norman, and Matt Ruby.
01:43All comedians were on the show.
01:44I bought that jacket and that under thing that day.
01:47I was pretty pumped about that jacket.
01:49This room is where I first got Conan.
01:52So my first late night appearance was late night with Conan O'Brien.
01:55First time I did late night with Conan was September.
01:57And then it was December, they were doing more auditions.
02:00I go, oh, I'm going to try to audition again.
02:02My managers at the time, they go, you can't audition again
02:04because you were on it too recent.
02:06And I was like, well, I bet I could try.
02:08And they go, you can't try.
02:10I was like, well, I'm just going to do it on my own.
02:12So then they came down.
02:13They're like, oh, so you went ahead and did it.
02:15I go, yeah, I don't know why you're saying I can't.
02:17And I got on it again.
02:18So that felt good.
02:20It means, you know, just don't listen to when people tell you stuff.
02:23Just go do it.
02:24Just do what you feel.
02:27Me and Haley Jo Osmond inside a golf tournament.
02:29We played golf together a few times.
02:31So he played Entourage the Movie, Billy Bob Thornton's son.
02:35So I auditioned for that part.
02:37I went to an acting coach.
02:39And I was like, I got this audition.
02:41And we did it.
02:42And I go, what do you think?
02:45And he told me, I think you should try to get out of the audition.
02:47It would come off better you canceling than it would you showing up.
02:52That's how bad I did.
02:53You know, and I was like, I don't care.
02:55You know, so I went and did it.
02:57I got a call back.
02:58They were like, if you dyed your hair black, I think you would look younger.
03:01And they go, did you read the script?
03:03And I go, I did not because I'm a big fan of Entourage.
03:06I did not want to ruin the movie.
03:07Then they, so they, well, you need to read it.
03:09So then I read the script and came back.
03:11I did not dye my hair.
03:12But I was like, again, why am I going to go change everything?
03:16Like, who are we kidding?
03:17I'm not going to get it against.
03:18Look, they went the right, they made the right choice.
03:20And the movie was fun.
03:22Were there any other roles you auditioned for but didn't get?
03:24One was The Daily Show when Jon Stewart was there.
03:28My audition tape was so good.
03:30They showed it to other people auditioning, being like, this is the type of audition we want.
03:35Jordan Klepper, who got the part, it was between me and him.
03:38So we go to The Daily Show.
03:39And I look like, I look in that earlier picture.
03:42It looked like I was going to divorce court trying to get to see my daughter.
03:47And the judge was like, no, because obviously we can't.
03:50I go in and I do my little part with Jon Stewart.
03:53And then there was another part I was having to read the words of Jon Oliver.
03:56Like I had to do a green screen.
03:58Well, Jon Oliver is quite the educated man.
04:01And let's just say we use some different words.
04:03And the audition went really bad.
04:05I don't know if I was a block away and they already called my agent and said, like,
04:09he's not getting it.
04:10That's one I always regret because comedians, we don't know how to take something serious.
04:17But they, again, they also made the right choice.
04:20This is a Christmas show on CBS.
04:23And it is a play on the George Washington sketch.
04:25Streeter and Mikey wrote this with me.
04:27They loved it because we shot this at the Grand Ole Opry.
04:31It's about 5,000 seats.
04:32So they've never done a sketch with that many people in the crowd.
04:36Pausing for the laughter and all this stuff was just so different and something that
04:41they haven't experienced.
04:42So it was fun to watch them get to do what they do best in that kind of a big setting.
04:48Darius Rucker like crushed it.
04:50And he was super funny.
04:52Darius is someone else I've got to know.
04:54I like doing stuff with people that I have a relationship with.
04:57I want everything to feel like it's like we're friends.
05:00And me and Darius are friends and we've golfed together a lot.
05:03We had Carrie Underwood, also another one that came on and sang a Christmas song for us.
05:07So getting to host this and put this all together.
05:09It was just like, I would say one of my highlights of my career.
05:13This is me and my dad in Las Vegas at the Wynn.
05:18My dad's a magician.
05:19So he comes out with me and opens with me sometimes on the road.
05:22So this is one of the first times we did it.
05:23He started, we made him win.
05:25We didn't make him, but he's still got his badge on to let him backstage just in case.
05:30People will put a stop to him because he doesn't look like he should be back there.
05:33When I got my dad open for me, he was very excited about it and he cries a lot.
05:38Thanks for loving my son.
05:43People in the audience is crying.
05:45So I got to put a stop to that pretty quick because I got to do a show.
05:48So I learned a quick line is when he cries and I get up there.
05:51And then I just go, just so you know, that was not my dad.
05:54And then that brings everybody back to having fun.
05:58This is me and Jerry Seinfeld.
06:00We went to a diner.
06:01Me and him have got to know each other.
06:03He's been very, very nice to me.
06:05He sent me a voice text after my special Hello World.
06:10And the fact that he did it in a voice text is unbelievable.
06:12And I was able to keep it, my parents able to hear it,
06:16to hear his voice, the voice I know so well, be so nice to me.
06:20You know, no matter how famous you are, you're not Seinfeld famous.
06:24Because you could think you're like, ah, I'm pretty big now.
06:27And then you go, you're not Seinfeld, dude.
06:30You're just not that.
06:31All right, come check me out on tour.
06:33The Big Dumb Eyes tour.
06:36It's going to be amazing.
06:37We're going back to a bunch of cities.
06:38Bring your grandparents.
06:39I am for grandparents.
06:41Thanks for watchin'.