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With two hour-long specials on Netflix—and another on Amazon Prime Video—Nate Bargatze is easily one of the most successful stand-up comedians working right now. But even he will admit he was surprised when Saturday Night Live booked him to host this weekend’s show.
“It’s insane, dude,” Bargatze told Seth Meyers on Tuesday’s episode of Late Night. “It’s almost like when they asked, you’re like, I don’t know if I’m famous enough to do that.” He joked that he considered turning the offer down with, “I appreciate it, but there’s some other people I think y’all should go after.”
“You’re like, ‘Your show has a legacy, you don’t want to mess around with that,’” SNL alum Meyers riffed in response.