The Washington Post, fumbling for a metaphor, refers to him in a profile released in anticipation of his new special Your Friend, Nate Bargatze (now streaming on Netflix) as the Walmart of comedy ...

The one thing that didn't sit well with Bargatze was the closing of Opryland USA theme park where he worked as a teenager growing up in Old Hickory. It closed in 1997 during Bargatze's senior year at ...