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Nashville’s own Nate Bargatze made his second Late Night with Jimmy Fallon appearance, along with guests Natalie Portman and Taye Diggs. While intro’ing Nate, Jimmy Fallon revealed that Nate’s June 13th appearance on Late Night went so well that NBC signed him to a development deal! Here’s video of Nate’s set:
Follow Nate online:
NateBargatze.com
Facebook.com/pages/Nate-Bargatze-Fan-Page
Twitter.com/NateBargatze
Here’s some images from Nate’s appearance:
Tig Notaro will be filming a documentary for Showtime in which she tours the nation performing in unusual venues – people’s living rooms, basements, rooftops, or wherever. Here’s a video from Tig:
Nashville’s Corporate Juggernaut kids filmed a video asking Tig to come to Nashville for a show:
..and so did Dana Delworth.. GUESS WHAT!? IT WORKED!
Tig Notaro is coming to Nashville to party with us Friday, August 9th, 2013! Dana’s Squalor Holler was hand-selected by SHOWTIME’s producers to host this super special show as a part of Tig’s upcoming barns-and-backyards road trip tour.
Tig will be bringing along the incredible Jon Dore and additional special guests, plus there will be musical performances from RI¢HIE, Brandon Jazz & others to be announced soon!
Here’s a video of Jon Dore performing a Dadaist experiment in stand-up comedy on Conan:
Here’s the Facebook event.
Tig Notaro House Party Show w/ Jon Dore & other guests
Aug. 9, 2013 – 7pm
Squalor Holler
UPDATE: due to the rain the event has been moved to:
The East Room
2412 Gallatin Rd.
Nashville, TN 37206-3038
Tig Notaro will be filming a documentary for Showtime in which she tours the nation performing in unusual venues – people’s living rooms, basements, rooftops, or wherever. To invite Tig to perform in your yard, go to tigroadtrip.com and submit some infos for your chance to win. Here’s a video from Tig:
Nashville’s Corporate Juggernaut kids have filmed a video asking Tig to come to Nashville for a show. Watch & share this video to help convince her that Nashville is exactly as cool as it looks on that ABC sitcom!
Click here to tweet this video: http://clicktotweet.com/5Lcrf
Help out now and we’ll make sure to invite you to the party later! Meredith is making cupcakes, you for real don’t want to miss this rager!
I can’t believe I forgot to post this earlier.. Our own Nate Bargatze made his first appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, June 13, 2013 with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Val Kilmer. As always, it went well! Jimmy Fallon tweeted that Nate is, “My new favorite comedian.” Here’s the video:
Here are some still images from the show:
More from Mr. Bargatze:
NateBargatze.com
Facebook.com/pages/Nate-Bargatze-Fan-Page
Twitter.com/NateBargatze
Nashville-based animator Mike Salva has started a crowd-funding campaign to fund an animated comedy series starring comedian Jonathan Katz called Death Row Diet. Katz is best known for playing the title character on Comedy Central’s Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, a role for which he won an Emmy. Salva’s previous work includes award-winning shorts “Max The Hero” (which stars and was written by Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTrax.com’s Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett) & “Pound Dogs” (which features Nashville-based comedians Sean Parrott and Ryan Williams plus Atlanta’s Andy Merrill, who played Brak on Space Ghost and Oglethorpe on Aqua Teen Hunger Force).
In Katz and Salva’s animated short ‘Death Row Diet’, Jonathan plays a man on death row and Weight Watchers, where he consults with his lawyer (played by Tom Leopold of “Seinfeld” and “Cheers”). The cartoon was a big hit at film festivals and won a lot of awards, including a television pilot award from the New York Television Festival.
Work began to expand Death Row Diet into an animated series about the main character’s life in prison. A number of scripts were written but as they were ready to begin recording the dialogue, their funding source for the project backed out. The creators immediately began planning a Kickstarter campaign to fund the series. They are offering rewards to backers, including a “special thanks” listing in the credits, an “associate producer” credit, a speaking part in the cartoon, DVD copies of Death Row Diet autographed by Jonathan Katz.. and having the director & a voice actor come to your house to clean your bathroom.
Complete details of the campaign can be found on the project’s Kickstarter page and at DeathRowDiet.com. Here’s the original short:
Death Row Diet (with Jonathan Katz) from Project Meatball on Vimeo.
More infos:
Death Row Diet @ Kickstarter
DeathRowDiet.com
Facebook.com/DeathRowDiet
Twitter.com/DeathRowDiet