Nate Bargatze Launches His First Podcast with All Things Comedy

Nate Bargatze, multiple Interrobang award nominee and winner has teamed with Bill Burr and Al Madrigal’s All Things Comedy network to release his new podcast, NateLand.

The new weekly podcast will be released every Wednesday, beginning today, with both audio and video available. You can download audio everywhere you get podcast, and the video version will be on Nate’s YouTube channel. I talked with Nate about the new podcast as he was getting ready to record episode two, and maybe its not fair to judge a podcast by a short phone call, but I did, and it’s going to be one of my new favorite weekly listens.

The idea for the new podcast came about now for a practical reason. With live comedy on pause, Nate has a lot more time, and the itch to perform. “You can’t do anything as a comedian,” he told me. “So that was a big push.”  Podcasting is something Nate’s always had in the back of his mind. Everyone has one, and he’s been a guest on most of the great ones. But he ultimately had decided, its okay to be one of the people who didn’t have a podcast.  And with traveling to NY and LA from his Tennesse home, he was pretty busy and always being creative. “And then, honestly, when this COVID stuff happened and then touring went away it just kind of like, look, I want to do something. I’m going stir crazy at home. And so I just felt like I need to do something and I wanted to start this.”

It wasn’t just the stage time Bargatze missed, it was connecting creatively with other comedians. “When you’re in New York, you’re hanging out with comics every night and I think it really helps you be funny. It helps you because you’re always being funny because you’re hanging around everybody.  And so I think a podcast is a very good tool for comedians.”  That interaction was something he found could be duplicated in the podcast world on shows like The Bonfire.

“I would listen to my best friends, Dan Soder and Big Jay, on The Bonfire. Every time I’d go on that podcast, I’m so jealous of…  If you wanted to see what it’s like being out with comedians, that one Bonfire is one that shows that. So I was jealous of that. I think it helps your comedy with them being that funny four days a week. And it helps you become funnier for your stand-up. It’s a mix of things that came together for this, but it was like all of those coming together. Therefore, here we are. I was like, I should do one.”

Everything about Nateland is promising to be everything you love about Nate Bargatze as a comedian. The plan for the series is to steer away from tackling the issues you’re hearing about everywhere else. Nateland will be a mental break. A show, like Seinfeld, that’s about nothing, but still incredibly entertaining and funny.

But that’s not a hard and fast rule. Things come up. Even in the very first episode.

“We broke down abortion. No, I’m joking. All right. We did do it. We talked about COVID. I’m not against talking about stuff that’s happening, but I’m going to really try not to… There’s enough people doing that. There’s enough radio shows, podcasts, news, everything’s breaking down everything.”

“I want people to be able to come to this and trust that they’re not going to get lectured,” he added. It doesn’t even make sense to me why anybody wants my opinion on stuff. My opinion doesn’t matter and it shouldn’t matter. And it shouldn’t matter to anybody. You just need to come here and listen to the funny.”

In fact, he sees himself as ” pretty anti-platform.”  As a comedian, he says, “you shouldn’t know how I vote or any of this stuff. You should be able to trust that you can just come and laugh. And people need that now more than ever, a mental break from just… I mean…. every day is a nightmare. Every day you wake up is like a train wreck of a day. So you should be able to come listen to this, I think, and not be reminded of that just the whole time. That’s what our stand-up is. Where I did this show at Zanies, I mean obviously before they closed. But when I did a weekend at Zanies, I mean, the relief people felt when you just didn’t talk about COVID the whole time or something or politics.”

Another departure from most comedian-based podcasts- Nateland won’t be guest intensive. Joining Nate weekly will be Nashville comedian Brian Bates who has toured with Bargatze, and another funny local comic, Aaron Weber. “I didn’t want to have to be finding guests. I mean maybe we have some guests. Maybe I’ll have other friends on or people who are in town and I can have them on to be on it. But the plan is just us three.”

The plan is to record on Tuesday, release on Wednesday, but even that has some flexibility. Nate says he’s open to doing more as they go along.


Just about everyone who reads theinterrobang knows (and loves) Nate Bargatze,  If you think you’re an expert you should play Twenty One Questions with Nate Bargatze while you’re firing up the first episode.

If you’re new to All Things Nate, here’s a crash course. He’s got a hell of a resume. Hailing from Old Hickory, Tennessee, Nate Bargatze is a stand-up comedian who sells out theaters across the world. Nate followed in the showbiz footsteps of his dad, a former clown turned world class magician, who’s influence is seen on Nate’s 2015 debut special Full Time Magic and his debut album Yelled at By a Clown. Nate’s half-hour Netflix Special The Standups premiered on July 4th, 2017. In March 2019, Nate’s first solo one-hour Netflix special, The Tennessee Kid premiered globally with rave reviews.

Bargatze’s comedy is both clean and relatable, and he’s a favorite guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He also appeared on Conan four times, was a recurring guest on @midnight, and had his own Comedy Central Presents in 2011. Off-screen, Nate was part of Jimmy Fallon’s Clean-Cut Comedy Tour, and has done live shows for the troops in Iraq and Kuwait five times. In addition to touring the country as a headliner, Nate toured in arenas with Chris Rock on his 2017 Total Blackout Tour. He regularly performs at Bonnaroo, SXSW, Oddball Comedy Festival, Sasquatch, Clusterfest, and the JFL Montreal Comedy Festival, where he’s received critical acclaim multiple years in a row.

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 debut one-hour special, Full Time Magic, premiered on Comedy Central that spring, followed by his debut album, Yelled at by a Clown, which reached #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts and remained on Billboard’s Top Ten Comedy Charts for weeks.

Nate joins fellow All Things Comedy podcasters, Bill Burr, Melissa Villasenor, Bert Kreischer and many others at the leading comedy podcast network.

Founded by Bill Burr and Al Madrigal, All Things Comedy (ATC) is owned and operated by comedians, giving each comedian not only the opportunity to create the content they think is funny but to take ownership in the company that distributes it. Today, ATC is the leading comedy podcast network featuring shows hosted by some of the best comedians in the business. After experiencing rapid audience growth over the past five years, ATC has launched a full-scale studio for creating digital series, as well as a development slate for television and feature distribution.

This year, ATC is producing Immoral Compass for Quibi and premiered several podcasts including The Bill Bert Podcast, featuring Bill Burr and Bert Kreischer; Gettin Better with Ron Funches; Breaking Bread with Tom Papa; and Laughing with Myself with Melissa Villaseñor. In 2019, ATC produced numerous stand-up specials including Bill Burr: Paper Tiger, Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It?, and Ronnie Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America. In the fall of 2018, ATC announced a production deal with Comedy Central to produce an original stand-up series hosted by Bill along with three one-hour stand-up specials. The series, Bill Burr Presents: The Ringers, is a six-episode series hosted by Bill and showcasing three comedians per episode that premiered on January 10, 2020. The three one-hour specials include Bill Burr Presents Paul Virzi: I’ll Say This, (11/2/18); Bill Burr Presents IanTalk: Ideas Not Worth Spreading, (7/12/19); and Bill Burr Presents Jessica Kirson: Talking To Myself, (12/6/19).

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