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