.natebargatze shares that it can be too much when a joke that he thought was relatable falls flat and the audience is just laughing at him. 'So there’s a balance you have to find. You want to be just the right amount of dumb,' he says.
, Bargatze jumped at the chance to be one of the first comics in Amazon Prime Video’s new push into a comedy-special landscape that has been dominated by Netflix for almost a decade. He’s hoping it’s a savvy career move to reach a new audience, but admits he could always be wrong.
As for that self-deprecating job description he delivers on stage, Bargatze says, “There’s more to it than that,” before joking that if he was jogging and someone came up to him and asked what he did for a living, “saying dumb stuff in front of large groups” would be the simplest answer. But doesn’t he have to be at least kind of smart to make his dumb thoughts funny to millions of people? “I feel like awareness plays a lot into it,” he answers. “You’ve got to be super aware and you do have to pick up on stuff. You’ve got to notice things more than most people will notice things.”
When Bargatze takes note of his own inability to do something, like the bit in his new special about how hard it can be to turn off the lights in a hotel room, he generally feels confident that audiences will be able to relate. “A lot of people think they might be the only dumb ones that have done something,” he says. “But then, once I get to say it in a large group, and you hear everybody laugh, you realize a lot of people have done this.
And yet, there have been times when he delivered an observational joke that he thought would be relatable but falls flat with the crowd. “When people don’t relate to it and then they’re just laughingyou, it can be too much,” Bargatze says. “You’re like, all right, that’s too dumb. Either they don’t believe it or they feel sorry for you. So there’s a balance you have to find. You want to be just the right amount of dumb.
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