From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm David Marquesie.

Pretty much whenever I watch a buzzy new stand-up comedy special.

At some point, I end up having to scramble for the remote control

to hit the mute button because one of my kids has wandered into the room.

The material is just too blue for their precious little ears.

When I was watching Nate Bargettze's latest special, though, my 10-year-old walked in,

I grabbed the remote, and then I realized I didn't have to do anything,

because the next joke he told with my daughter in the room was about drinking chocolate milk.

If stand-ups today often catch fire by being seen as transgressive and dangerous,

saying the things others won't say about subjects others won't talk about,

in language others won't use, then Bargetse has captured the zeitgeist in a friendlier way.

He's low-key and clean, and his comedy traffics in highly relatable stories

about the foibles of family life, his confusion with modern living, and his own lack of smarts.

It's an approach that apparently works.

His was the highest grossing comedy tour of 2024.

He's also found a new audience through a couple of recent

and widely praised turns hosting Saturday Night Live. And now he's branching out to a new area

with his upcoming book, The Self-Deprecatingly titled Big Dumb Eyes, Stories from a Simpler Mind.

That kind of awshuck's attitude is a trademark of his, but as I learned,

it's actually masking some surprisingly bold ambition. Here's my interview with Nate Bargesi.

It's interesting reading articles about you over the last couple years since your career has really

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