Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I
Speaker 2: stumbled across this clip. A comedian by the first name
Speaker 2: of Nate shared this on Twitter. He was a guest
Speaker 2: on Woody and Willcox, and they are struggling with saying
Speaker 2: this dude's last name the way I have been for
Speaker 2: exactly the same reasons. If you listen to the first
Speaker 2: four years of this podcast, you heard me just roll
Speaker 2: through Nate Burghetzy. And then I started to notice the
Speaker 2: same things that these folks did. Let's listen, and you
Speaker 2: said your name differently than I say your name. You
Speaker 2: are always Nate Bergatzi to me, and then I heard
Speaker 2: you say Burghetzi.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think we could say it wrong as our family.
Speaker 2: So you think maybe I'm right and you're wrong.
Speaker 1: I think, I mean it's a like I know, Falon
Speaker 1: says Bargatzi, and like I think that's like a New
Speaker 1: York like Italian like you Shoulay Bargazzi. And then I
Speaker 1: think our southern accent has turned it to Barghetzie.
Speaker 2: Oh man, no, I'm all kinds of self conscious.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Nate Burghetzi open up about pursuing his dream of comed
Speaker 2: He spoke to Parade magazine and said, I've always just
Speaker 2: done stand up. I want to be able to create
Speaker 2: movies that, hopefully the whole family can come out to.
Speaker 2: I was never great at auditioning for other people's movies,
Speaker 2: so I kind of figured I have to make my own.
Speaker 2: He's working on a film called The Breadwinner, and he
Speaker 2: says he would love to start at a remake of
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six. Is at the Ghost and Mister Chicken
Speaker 2: Nate be explain, I love Don Knatts. I don't think
Speaker 2: I could do what don Knots does. It'd probably still
Speaker 2: go with Don Knats, to be honest, even though I
Speaker 2: traveled back in time to go Nonetheless, we're gonna stick
Speaker 2: with don Knots. But you know that's the stuff I loved.
Speaker 2: It was just super fun and silly. He has as
Speaker 2: a book coming out in May, Big Dumb Eyes, Stories
Speaker 2: from a Simpler Mind. I gotta nag the publicist. I
Speaker 2: put in that request months ago. They probably forgot about me.
Speaker 2: He says. The book is just telling stories that have
Speaker 2: happened to me, stuff that sometimes doesn't always work and
Speaker 2: stand up. I read Paul Reiser's book when I first
Speaker 2: started comedy, and I remember really laughing at it. I
Speaker 2: was just reading it in his rhythm and his voice,
Speaker 2: and I liked it so much. The only times asked
Speaker 2: Gabe Iglesias about his style, you know, Hawaiian shirts, shorts
Speaker 2: and king gold caps, and they're curious if that evolved
Speaker 2: over time or did he always just like that on stage?
Speaker 2: Fluffy said, when I first started doing stand up in
Speaker 2: ninety seven, everybody's wearing dark colors. It was all about
Speaker 2: the cool dark shirt, the leather jacket, the black suit
Speaker 2: button up. I asked myself, how am I gonna be
Speaker 2: different here and also comfortable because I didn't want to
Speaker 2: wear a suit. I didn't want to wear a suit
Speaker 2: when I had the nine to five, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to wear it now. To do this. I remember
Speaker 2: watching Robin Williams was one of my comedy heroes, and
Speaker 2: he was always into Hawaiian shirts. It's just bright, colorful,
Speaker 2: nothing threatening about that unless you're scarface. If you're wearing
Speaker 2: a Hawaiian shirt, you're here to have a good time
Speaker 2: with the short. Same thing. I want to be comfortable.
Speaker 2: I'm a California guy. We wear shorts here. You want
Speaker 2: of things that are memorable. Aside from having a great
Speaker 2: presence on stage, people are visual, so what I remember?
Speaker 2: They remember the comedian that wears the Hawaiian shirt. When
Speaker 2: I watched his recent special, the New One, that shirt
Speaker 2: he's wearing pops, It's like electric red looks great. The
Speaker 2: nickname Fluffy came about because I tried using Gabriel Iglesias.
Speaker 2: I thought that was a beautiful, nice, wonderful name, and
Speaker 2: nobody remembered Iglesias. At the end of the night, they
Speaker 2: remembered Fluffy, And that's why I stuck with that A
Speaker 2: lot of times. To try something, you don't give enough
Speaker 2: time to catch and I learned a lot of that
Speaker 2: from watching wrestling. They give a guy enough time, You're like, ah,
Speaker 2: this sucks, this sucks, this sucks, and then finally I
Speaker 2: get it. That's why every single special I'm wearing Hawaiian
Speaker 2: shirt shorts. And then with time, the Kangall cap started happening,
Speaker 2: So now it's part of the style. Was playing a
Speaker 2: long time ago, and I just stayed with it and
Speaker 2: didn't change. Could follow up from the La Times, where'd
Speaker 2: you learn about branding and marketing when it comes to comedy?
Speaker 2: Gabe said, before I got a comedy, I was actually
Speaker 2: working a lot in sales. I was always watching how
Speaker 2: people would promote their products and stuff like that. I
Speaker 2: worked inside of a Walmart, in the side of a
Speaker 2: kiosk selling cell phones back of the day, so we
Speaker 2: always trying to come couple ideas how to brand things better.
Speaker 2: I also go back to wrestling on this one. I
Speaker 2: watch a lot of wrestling, and I see how they
Speaker 2: do their promos, how they dressed, the lighting, the sound,
Speaker 2: the experience. A lot of that goes into it. And
Speaker 2: I didn't have the idea of branding early on. I
Speaker 2: think a lot of times entertainers don't take themselves serious
Speaker 2: enough to be considered a brand. I didn't like the
Speaker 2: nickname Fluffy at first because it made me think of
Speaker 2: a cat, or pillows or comforters or cotton candy, but
Speaker 2: the name stuck. Friend of mine many years ago said, look, man,
Speaker 2: we'll get these algorithms going, and trust me, the Internet's
Speaker 2: gonna take off. That's how far back we were talking about.
Speaker 2: He goes, we'll start branding this now, and you watch
Speaker 2: what happens, and he was right. You know, if you
Speaker 2: google Fluffy, I'm the number one thing that pops up.
Speaker 2: Time Magazine talked to Roy Wood Junior, and they were
Speaker 2: curious he worked at Golden Corral in college and what
Speaker 2: he'd learned from working at Golden Corral. Roy said, I
Speaker 2: feel like every American should either serve a year in
Speaker 2: the military or two years in food service. Both will
Speaker 2: give you different perspectives on society and how to treat
Speaker 2: people and how fortunate you are. Golden Corral you serve
Speaker 2: everyone from eight year olds to eighty year olds, from
Speaker 2: weird tables full of college kids to white supremacists, and
Speaker 2: you don't even realize the guy's white supremacist, so you
Speaker 2: see his white power tat on his knuckles as you're
Speaker 2: refilling his sweet tea for the third time. When I
Speaker 2: started doing stand up comedy, a lot of my jokes
Speaker 2: were two or three sentence greeting bits that he did
Speaker 2: earlier that day on shift. I could take a quick,
Speaker 2: little observational joke and by the end of my shift
Speaker 2: have it worded in a way that works in any demographic.
Speaker 2: You start noticing that we do have a lot of
Speaker 2: things to connect. That was a very very special time
Speaker 2: in my life. Zim was curious, does Trump winning make
Speaker 2: you happier or sadder that you weren't app to host
Speaker 2: the Daily Show. Roy said Trump's winter loss doesn't change
Speaker 2: her job as political satirists to jump down the throat
Speaker 2: of whatever government is and isn't doing right. I think
Speaker 2: the difference becomes figuring out a new way to get
Speaker 2: people who love Trump but ignore facts to pay attention
Speaker 2: to facts if you still want to vote for him.
Speaker 2: At the end of that analysis, cool, but there's been
Speaker 2: a big disconnect between what is considered entertainment what is
Speaker 2: considered news, and the public no longer cares about the
Speaker 2: difference so long as they're entertained. Bob Marley was talking
Speaker 2: to the Rutland Herald about the weather and said, we
Speaker 2: just said snow, and then we had fifty seven and rain.
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, I just remember snowbanks being
Speaker 2: twenty five feet high, or was it because I was
Speaker 2: two feet tall. You just look at everything as big.
Speaker 2: You look at your dad like, my dad's a huge man,
Speaker 2: and my parents are geniuses. And then you turn fourteen
Speaker 2: and you're like, these people know nothing. Bob then talked
Speaker 2: about his family's saying these people are insane. My cousin
Speaker 2: just passed away. It was awful, but my family so
Speaker 2: messed up. I called my sister and I go, we're
Speaker 2: going to the funeral, and she goes, I'm not going
Speaker 2: up there. I gained so much weight, I'm too fat.
Speaker 2: And I go, you're too fat to funeral? Is father?
Speaker 2: O'Malley on the front step of the church. Get to
Speaker 2: say sorry for your loss. Please step on the scale.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this. Saturday Night Live
Speaker 2: started fifty this year. Oh, there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: specials out. Marcy Klein was a producer and head of
Speaker 2: talent at the show from ninety five to twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: She told one of the docs, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: people that I brought in, and I'm like, I can't
Speaker 2: believe we're not hiring that person. Lauren Michaels himself tells
Speaker 2: the story. I wasn't at the Jim Carrey audition. Somebody
Speaker 2: who was there said I don't think Lauren would like it,
Speaker 2: and they were probably wrong. Other people who didn't make
Speaker 2: it Kevin Hart, Mindy Kayling, Donald Glover, Jordan Peel, Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 2: Colbert was watching his own audition tape and said, I
Speaker 2: feel perfectly fine with that effort, and I probably felt
Speaker 2: okay then until I didn't get it. Back in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 2: Lauren Michaels tried to explain why Jim Carrey did get
Speaker 2: the show, and he said, no one gets it, all right,
Speaker 2: And that is your comedy news for today. If you
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