"MAGA Comedian" Nate Bargatze's new Netflix special

0:01 Calaroga Media. Oh, I've been waiting to do this one. Hi, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily comedy news from the Daily Beast. Their headline exposed mega comedian lands huge new Netflix special. I don't know what it is with the Daily Beast and Nate Bregazzi, but they apparently like to give him the business. They write it's yet to be seen whether the comedian will address his decision to cozy up to mega. They remind us Borghese hosted the 2025 Emmys and built a reputation for clean comedy before he was caught schmoozing with prominent MAGA figures at President Donald Trump's birthday spectacular, a UFC cage match on the White House lawn in June. They write the self-proclaimed not political comedian grinned in photos alongside Trump loyalists like Robert F.

0:57 Kennedy Jr., Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Arkansas right-wing governor Sarah Huckerby Sanders. Now, Breghetti is foisting himself. Foisting. They used the word foisting. Now, Breghetti is foisting himself onto Netflix on November 24th for his fourth hour-long solo special, Good for Nathan. Now, the rest of the world is like, oh, cool, new Nate Breghetti special. But boy, the mega comedian, he is back and foisting himself on everybody. Meanwhile, in a related story, Stavros Halkias says the UFC support of Donald Trump has pushed him away from the sport of MMA. During a recent podcast episode, Stavros said, if you think Trump is awesome now, you're the dumbest person alive. You're stupid or evil or both, probably. And if you're still, I have to clean this up a little bit, doing a thing to Trump that men like? I don't know.

1:46 Paraphrase that. You're a moron. And I believe Dana White has been doing such a thing as well. Paraphrasing a little bit from what Stavro said, you know what I'm saying. Stavro said, I was more of a fan when I was younger. My brothers really into UFC when we were kids. We would go to Buffalo Wild Wings and watch every big pay-per-view. It's an awesome memory from my teenage years. I was getting back into the sport and then just like the mega friendship expression has really put a damper on it. Look, every owner of every sports team is a piece of crap. Typically, maybe a couple aren't. But there's something kind of uniquely like we do that thing to the president of the United States coded about the UFC and their willingness to be part of propaganda. To me, it's made it impossible to enjoy the sport as much as I do. I'll still watch, but sometimes I'm on the fence. I'll just be like, I don't want them to have my money. So all that was a lot of fun and it bumped down this one. I'm excited.

2:33 Gianmarco Cerezi sets his first solo Netflix special. So we're now at the point where I'm actually wondering, can I still get Gianmarco to come on the show? I haven't actually asked him yet. I know I can't go through Netflix. They don't get to anybody. I'd have to go out to him directly. But has he now crossed over? If he hasn't, he's a few weeks away. His first Netflix special is called God Forbid. It will be out December 3rd. Filmed over a sold-out run at Chicago's Thalia Hall, the special navigates Gianmarco's aspirations and anxieties around marriage and fatherhood, his skepticism about society's substitutes for religion, and a double-edged sword of taking mental health seriously. Srazy told The Hollywood Reporter, After over a decade of doing stand-up comedy, I'm thrilled to finally release a comedy special that I didn't have to upload myself. That's funny. They remind us he was named one of Deadline's Comedians Ready to Break Out in 2025.

3:22 That was a good prediction. And one of the comics he won in 2025. He's still described in this article as a rising star. I think his star is indeed about to be fully risen. Colin Jost is the star of Mary Kay's holiday campaign. John, did you say Mary Kay? I did. Joe said sometimes finding the perfect gift can feel like an odyssey. The commercial starts with Joe standing in a cozy living room decorated for the holidays, then shifts to a snowy tundra. Colin says you have to journey past the ghosts of thoughtless gifts across the sea of last minute panic, maybe a bird feeder. What do women mean when they say I don't need anything? A bearded Joe then cries out, will someone just tell me what to buy? It's as if he's the Greek hero Odysseus struggling to perhaps find the perfect gift for his loyal wife Penelope upon his return from the Trojan War or something. Vince's necklace in the snow says, oh, jewelry.

4:12 That makes sense. We will take the break a little early today. When we come back, we have to talk about Russell Brand, and it's not nice. All right, the remainder of the program will be the New York Comedy Festival schedule and Russell Brand, so this segment is not for little ones. Late last week, Russell Brand was found guilty of raping a woman and sexually assaulting three more prosecutors, say Russell Brand. was obsessed with sex and used women to satisfy his own desires. One victim said he treated her like an animal. Crown Prosecutor David Roberts said outside court the evidence showed Brand to be a calculated sexual predator using his growing fame and power to create situations in which he could pursue women sexually regardless of what they wanted. Russell Brand now faces jail and potentially further action as police said he is still under investigation for two other alleged rapes, one involving a then 16-year-old girl.

5:02 Brand will be sentenced today. None of the women knew one another, but all came forward to police in the wake of a TV documentary and press reports in 2023 in which other women made separate allegations against Russell Brand. Those women were not involved in this trial. Russell Brand's lawyer, Ian Winter, lashed out at news correspondent Rosamund Irwin after the conviction. Winter said to the Sunday Times employee, I hope you're pleased with yourself. The journalist replied, I'm pleased justice has been done. The lawyer reportedly said, well, it wasn't. You effed it. Congratulations. Comedian Katherine Ryan in a related story, this was years after she reportedly confronted Russell Brand about alleged predatory behavior while working alongside him on UK comedy Central Roast Battle in 2018. On her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything, Katherine Ryan said, Really made me feel just quite dysregulated again, caught off guard, emotional, and all the survivors who also had nothing to gain. I'll never be someone who like dances on graves. There's been some justice done today. There's a level of relief, but there's grief alongside relief. Everything's nuanced and was proved in court that a terrible thing happened.

6:09 And that means that a terrible thing happened. Katherine Ryan had made headlines in 2022 when she told Louis Theroux in his documentary series that she had confronted an unnamed male comedian about his alleged predatory behavior. During that interview, Katherine Ryan said she had worked alongside a man on a television program and called him a predator. describing the potential legal repercussions as a litigious minefield. She never said who she was talking about. Many people assumed at that time and now that she was speaking about Russell Brand. Comedian Katie Brand, who has no relation to Russell, republished an old Instagram post in which she spoke of Russell Brand's dominance in the comedy scene, despite rumors circulating in the industry. On her Instagram, Katie Brand, no relation, wrote, If you'd like to know how men like Russell Brand are able to last so long in the entertainment business without anyone doing anything, Here's just one experience I had.

7:00 I wrote a TV comedy show in 2019. They wanted to cast Russell Brand. I asked if they had done due diligence on him because there were a lot of allegations at the time. The producer made an awkward noise and said, oh, that's all rather unpleasant to think about, isn't it? And then told me their CEO, a very powerful media figure, was taking Brand out to lunch that week anyway to persuade him to do it. I said I would quit if he was cast. Brand, presumably Russell, said no, so they simply abandoned the whole thing anyway. That's how it happens, because they don't care until they're forced to care. Solidary with all the victims, please keep speaking out. In the wake of the guilty verdict, Katie Brand posted, Russell Brand guilty, good. It's hard to convey how all-powerful this piece of S was for a while. He dominated British TV and entertainment for a very long time.

7:41 So many meetings I had where I pitched shows and was told there needed to be a part for him or they wouldn't be interested. Practically every pitch meeting available was to one of his enablers for a while. So many women abused. So many women held back. All my admiration for his accusers. F him forever and ever. Amen. Interestingly, the president of the United States had warned U.S. singer Katy Perry about Russell Brand back in 2011. This was five years before Donald Trump became the president. Katy Perry and Russell Brand got married in a Hindu ceremony in India in 2010. On December 29th, 2011, Donald Trump posted on Twitter, I like Russell Brand, but Katy Perry made a big mistake when she married him. Let's see if I'm right. I hope not. The day after that tweet, Russell Brand filed for divorce from Katy Perry after 14 months.

8:30 In October of 2014, Donald Trump on Twitter posted, Katy Perry must have been drunk when she married Russell Brand. at Rusty Rockets, but he did send me a really nice letter of apology. Brand, fired back on social media at the time, writing, Real Donald Trump, are you drunk when you write these tweets, or does that foam you spray on your bald head make you high? The next day, Donald Trump responded to that, writing, Katie, what the hell were you thinking when you married loser Russell Brand? There's a guy who's got nothing going, a waste. And with that, we'll awkwardly switch over to the New York Comedy Festival schedule today. At 7.30, John Rudnitsky featuring the No Static Orchestra. Do you know that name? He was on SNL for like five seconds. I know his name because he's one of the Montreal New Faces many years ago and then got SNL and I think got less time than Cam Patterson gets. The big one tonight is Stand Up For Heroes at David Geffen Hall. This is the annual benefit.

9:25 Let me pull up the proper notes here. Stand Up For Heroes celebrates its 20th anniversary. The show will feature musical performances by Bruce Springsteen and headline comedy sets from Josh Johnson, Hasan Minhaj, and Jon Stewart. Stand Up for Heroes has raised $ 117 million for veterans, military families, and caregivers since the inaugural show back in 2007. So that's the big one tonight. And I like the name of this one, so I'll click on it. At 9.30, it is called Wrong, an F'd Up Game Show. We're told it's a cutting-edge live comedy experience that takes everything you know about game shows and turns it on its head each show. the host takes three of the world's funniest comics down a rabbit hole, inspired by their dirty digital footprint, along with answering questions about things about their old tweets, their abandoned social media profiles, and their long-forgotten YouTube channels.

10:11 They'll face games celebrating the darker, dirtiest side of the comedy spectrum. The winner lands the dubious honor of Most F'd Up Comedian. That is wrong. An F-ed up game show at the Caveat Theater tonight at 9.30. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.