Nate Bargatze, who has hosted Saturday Night Live twice, had largely escaped the limelight at the dizzying spectacle at the White House on Sunday until Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., uploaded a snap of the trio together on Instagram, with Vice President JD Vance in the background.
Bargatze, though, posted nothing to his 3.1 million Instagram followers. It was crickets over on X, too, with no mention of his weekend foray into the heart of MAGA.
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SoupBrick@pawb.social · 72 pts · 51d
I love how he knew this was something he had to hide from his fanbase.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 51d
RFK's wife Cheryl totally threw him under the bus. Great people.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 50d
They don't think MAGA is anything to be embarrassed about.
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 50d
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 50d
Not sure how he would think it wouldn't get out. I imagine it's a highly photographed event.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 44 pts · 51d
Bro I swear to god standup comedians have such a weirdly high hit rate for being trash people
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 50d
Stand-up was literally started as an idea by a man who self described as a fascist. Behind the Bastards did a decent two parter on it...last year?
Larry@piefed.social · 4 pts · 50d
You have to be an insane narcissist to believe you deserve millions of dollars to stand on stage by yourself and rattle off dick jokes.
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 51d
I have no idea who this is.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
I vaguely recognize his name from a girl on Tinder. You aren't missing much.
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 50d
No shade, but Nate Bargatze is one of the most popular standup comedians at the moment. He has released five stand up specials over the last 11ish years. He sells out arenas nationwide. My mom (a boomer) loves his clean comedy.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 51d
Well, that's upsetting. I was genuinely a fan. I'm not entirely surprised, though. A lot of his material has to do with him being kind of dumb about how the world works and his wife having to think for the both of them.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 51d
I've only seen the one special, and I thought it was his delivery. Just a slow walk through the story.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 51d
This is sad.
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 51d
No, not really. I really liked his special and his SNL stuff, it was storytelling comedy.
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 51d
PoopingCough@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 50d
The movie may have made it obvious, but that came after his special and hosting SNL. I somewhat followed his rise, and it definitely wasn't obvious from the beginning. His angle was basically dumb gen x husband/dad but he knows he's dumb and is totally comfortable with it. That requires a level of introspection that isn't normally seen in MAGA types, so imo he definitely started out seemingly harmless.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · -1 pts · 51d
Why?
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 51d
...was this not obvious to everyone? I watched maybe half of a set and turned it off because he seemed like a piece of shit.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 51d
Somehow, I knew this one without knowing it.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
I had the same feeling. So this really isn't that groundbreaking to me, also didn't find him to be very funny.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 50d
Has anyone else mentioned, yet, the OpSec problems in having both Mr Trump and Mr Vance out on the lawn, sitting still, for hours at a time? Was Mike Johnson ordered to stay away as the survivor role?
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
Continuity of government is always in the security plan.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 50d
That fuckin' creepy weirdo RFK is married?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 50d
Kinda validated Larry in a ton of ways.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 50d
Maybe he's just gathering Intel for a comedy special where he talks about all the crazy shit that went down there.
I mean, I doubt it, but a person can dream.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 50d
Seems the normal pattern I guess. You put out something that sucks balls and the only thing left is to cozy up to the dumbest fucks on the planet AKA MAGA. And hope that those poor fucks have enough dough to afford a ticket to your shit movie.
treehugger6@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
Why do they all look the same?
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 51d
Noooooo goddamn it Nate I loved your comedy style. Fuck me this is so frustrating.
keyez@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
I thought it was gonna be Shane Gillis that was gonna get shown as MAGA, while I liked when Bargatze hosted SNL I haven't heard much of any thing of his since. A podcast I listen to said they attended a show of his and the youngest people there were in their 50s so it's certainly lining up.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 51d
Shane Gillis was really obvious to me. For some reason, Bargatze was a surprise.
keyez@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 51d
Is Gillis confirmed MAGA? i haven't seen so yet and have heard clips of him rebuking Texas and Trump in the recent past.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 51d
He definitely was in his special on netflix. It's hard to get that stink off, even if he's changed his mind.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 50d
Thinking Trump is funny isn't the same as being MAGA. I'm not saying he framed that "correctly" according to my own judgment, but there is a distinction here.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 50d
Edit: Sorry, I thought you were taking about Bergatze. Did you watch the Gillis special? He was all in on right wing politics.
If you were a celebrity, would you have gone to his White Trash House event?
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 50d
Nah, I boycott anyone who is a celebrity, tech leader, etc. that supports trump.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
Well fuck.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 50d
Did he go to Saudi too?
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 50d
He did, but not on the big event that the others did. He did a show earlier than that. I don't know what the conditions were, but I imagine they were similar.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 50d
He's not on the wikipedia list, but I have no idea if it's complete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_Comedy_Festival
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 50d
Who? I'm getting old
GarboDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
Uh, which one is the comedian? They all look like maga shit heads and none seem to be funny at all. Unless you mean Canadian, and by that account no none of them look Canadian either.