Nate Bargatze Thanks God for Fellow Christian Comedian’s Influence
By Movieguide® Contributor
Nate Bargatze is grateful to God for putting a fellow Christian comedian in his life early on in his career.
“God [is] watching me all the time — the fact that He put me with you,” Bargatze said during an episode of Anjelah Johnson-Reyes’s FUNJELAH podcast. “Because, imagine if — I could have went out with so many other comics that do not have God in their life and are just dudes that are going to be dumb and whatever. That could have been — we were together so long, that could have spiraled me into a whole other realm, but He put me with you, someone that was like-minded with me.”
He added, “You’ve openly always talked about your faith, and so that was just nice for me to see.”
Bargatze is one of the top-earning comics today, with successful Netflix specials, an upcoming book and plans to start branching out into the world of movies.
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In a 2019 interview with Relevant Magazine, he said that when he started working as a comedian in Chicago, it was “the first time that I ever met people that either weren’t religious or didn’t believe in God.”
“A lot of people that I was around weren’t Christians and didn’t grow up in the church or anything,” Bargatze continued. “Sometimes guys can go away from that, but it just made me get more into it, because I just thought, ‘Why do you think you’re right?’ I’ve always said I trust my parents more than I trust anybody else I ever met.”
In a 2023 interview with Fox News, he elaborated on his faith, saying, “It’s how I grew up. I grew up that way. I come from a Christian family and Southern Christian, so I wasn’t allowed to watch anything, which I talk about in the special. And so growing up and only watching clean comedians, it was just how I was going to be. And it would feel forced if I was not.”
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