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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:
Mikey’s Comedy Night at SmackDab Media and NashvilleStandUp.com proudly presents Baron Vaughn LIVE at Mikey’s, Sunday October 27, 2013 at 7:30pm.
BARON VAUGHN recently released his first comedy recording, Raised By Cable, produced by AST Records, available at Amazon (mp3 and CD), and iTunes. Baron’s performed stand-up on Conan (twice), Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (below) and has had numerous appearances on Comedy Central most recently in the form of his own “Half Hour” comedy special. He’s performed in the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (Aspen), The Just for Laughs Comedy Festival (Montreal), The South Beach Comedy Festival (Miami), Moontower Comedy Festival (Austin), San Francisco Sketchfest, Bridgetown Comedy Festival (Portland), Vancouver Comedy Festival, All Points West Music Festival (New Jersey), FYF Music Festival (Los Angeles), Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (TN), and Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival (Seattle). He has also appeared in many shows on VH1, MTV, FUSE as well as the films Black Dynamite, Cloverfield, The Other Guys (Deleted Scenes), and was a series regular on USA’s recently canceled Fairly Legal (2010-2012).
BARON VAUGHN ON FERGUSON:
Baron Vaughn at Mikey’s
Sunday October 27, 2013 – doors open: 6:30, showtime: 7:30pm
BYOB. $5 cover. Tickets available online or at the door.
Mikey’s @ Smack Dab Media
1033 3rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37210
http://www.NashvilleStandUp.com/mikeys/
Twitter.com/MikeysComedy
Facebook.com/MikeysComedy
Stalk Baron online:
Facebook.com/barvonblaq
Twitter.com/barvonblaq
Youtube.com/user/barvonblaq
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
The Daily Show visited Nashville again on May 16, 2013 to shoot a story about how Tennessee’s governor has rejected Obama’s Medicaid expansion money in favor of a wacky health care lottery designed to fail. Correspondent Jessica Williams interviewed three Nashvillians and shot a sketch in which Nashville’s own Chad Riden appeared as a Publisher’s Clearing House prize patrol guy.
Comedy Central aired the edited piece on June 5, 2013, titled “Care Bearers: Jessica Williams investigates America’s “health belt” and its rejection of expanded Medicaid coverage.” Here’s the video:
Here are some still photos from the video:
More from Chad Riden:
ChadRiden.com
Twitter.com/ChadRiden
Facebook.com/ComedyChad
YouTube.com/chadriden