Aug. 19, 2026

DCN Live: Nate Bargatze “MAGA Comedian” Controversy Expands; Shane Gillis Beer Mystery Solved

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At the lake, Johnny Mac jokes about the “non-controversy controversy” around clean comedian Nate Bargatze after The Daily Beast repeatedly called him “MAGA comedian Nate Bargatze,” a label now echoed by mainstream Parade Magazine, which cites his reported $77.5M 2025 earnings and backlash over photos of him attending President Donald Trump’s White House UFC Freedom 250 fight, including criticism from W. Kamau Bell and mixed fan reactions. The episode also corrects a viral claim that Shane Gillis drank Dos Equis at the event, saying TMZ reports he was drinking Bud Light and the Dos Equis belonged to someone nearby. Finally, it notes Ricky Gervais told Saga Magazine he may eventually marry longtime partner Jane Fallon primarily to reduce taxes.

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We're at the lake today. I keep thinking about this

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Aperghazzy thing. The idea that he's controversial, obviously is absurd.

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The guy works clean, he hosted the Emmys. There's not

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a scandal about him except he went to a UFC

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fight at the White House. And the Daily Beast, if

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you're not him to this, here's what's going on. The

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Daily Beast for some reason started referring to him one

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hundred percent of the time as Maga comedian in Aperghazzi,

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which is hilarious, right, So I've been using that in

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the podcast, but now I'm seeing in print everywhere, specifically

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Parade Magazine, which again is hilarious. But Parade Magazine is

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pretty darn mainstream and like your grandmother probably reads it.

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So now they're gonna be like, who's this Nay Burghecy guy?

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Is he controversial? And out of worrying if Nate's gonna

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have to somehow do damage controllers, people are going to

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have to get this out there because this is becoming

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a thing. I find it quite quite hilarious. So let

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me read you the Parade piece because it is funny.

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Although Burghezzi's become the highest grossing stand up comedian, making

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it a stounding seventy seven and a half million dollars

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in twenty twenty five. His career hasn't come without controversy.

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After photos surfaced of Burghatzy attending President Donald Trump's UFC

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Freedom two fifty fight, the comedian became the subject of

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conversation between fans and celebrities alike. In a substack essay,

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comedian W. Camel Bell criticized bergainst he saying, don't be

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in a photo with fascists again. Send your letters to

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w comeout Bell or Nateperghatzy, whatever side you're on, leave

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me out of it. I'm just having fun with the

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non controversy controversy. One fan wrote on threads, Nate Berghetzy

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was by far the most shocking a disappointing attendee for me.

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One of my favorite comedians had a genuinely decent guy.

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Dude should have known how bad it would look. Shane

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Gillis was at this thing. He seems fine, Rogan seems fine.

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I don't know. Someone else wrote, Napergazzy can support Trump,

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Nate Berghazzy can attend Trump's White House UFC party, and

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Aperghazzy can pose for photos with political figures. Speaking of Shane,

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I got to clean something up from yesterday. Shane's people

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apparently went to TMS. There are some people who accused

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Shane Gillis of drinking a dosakie. No no, no, no,

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no no no, he was drinking a bud Light. Yes,

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A source close to Shane tells TMZ the comedian was

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not committing a brand betrayal. Love the copywriting there, the

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source tells TMZ the dose EQI sitting at the cup

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holder next to him. It belonged to the girl sitting

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next to Shane Gillis, who wasn't in her sy. Just

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as somebody shot a video that happened to go viral

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with the Dosakis in it, which totally was not Shane's,

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of course, because Shane one hundred percent of the time

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drinks bud Light as well. Know the folks, let TMZ

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know that. You can see in a different video that

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Matthew McConaughey is on Shane's left and a blonde is

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on his rate. In the clip, his can is in

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a koozy and she's empty handed, but you can see

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a bit of bud light blue peeking out from Shane's

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coozy I love this. This is so silly. TMZ has

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reached out to Shane Gillis's rep at this time no

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word back. I will keep you updated on this. This

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is important. Ricky Gerveys is saying he will get married eventually.

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He's been with Jane Fallon for forty four years. Why

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would Ricky Gervas do such a thing to reduce his

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tax pill? I did a big interview with Saga magazine.

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I've got it scheduled in the audio podcast for Sunday,

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so we'll cover this on Sunday at length, but real quick.

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Ricky Gervas said that taxes are a good reason to marry,

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and said, and that will be the reason I marry

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because if it wasn't for that, why how more married

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can you be? We share all our money. We've been

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together for forty years. Some marriages don't last a year.

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He makes a good point, all right. If you're catching

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these on the audio feed, I'm doing these short videos

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for YouTube just to try and promote the show a

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little bit more. Nothing's changing on the audio feed. On

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the other side, if you're catching these on video, there's

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an audio podcast that comes out at three oh five

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am every morning, and come back tomorrow at three oh

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five am Eastern. There'll be an audio podcast to see

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you