stand-up comic
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Nate Bargatze, the country’s top selling stand-up comic, has a grand ambition: a $350 million theme park in Nashville, Tenn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
He cut his teeth as a martial arts expert and stand-up comic before becoming an oddball character in the mid-1990s television sitcom “News Radio.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
But the stand-up comic and successful podcaster has been through his own share of problems too, like his and his wife’s efforts to have a baby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
The podcaster and stand-up comic gets reflective in moments with his ailing father and late romantic partner, Lynn Shelton, that counter the swirl of crankiness he’s long brewed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
One of the reasons laughter is so effective as a tool for persuasion—and any stand-up comic who has ever seen off a heckler with a zinging one-liner knows this—is that laughter is involuntary assent.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
