The Baffling Rise of the Most Inoffensive Comedian Alive

Nate Bargatze's latest Netflix special arrives on Christmas Eve .

The 45-year-old stand-up veteran has dutifully steered clear of every pressure point currently mangling American society.

He has been a comedian since 2002 , and had scratched out a reasonably successful living on the circuit by his 30s .

But in the past three years , when his babyface began to fall away and his beard began to grey, Bargatz ’s career began to skyrocket.

In substance, Bargatze ’s humor mostly centers on his own pervasive mediocrity as a man, a father, a son, and an American .

The Tennessee native speaks in a laconic ramble, mushing together his set-ups and punchlines into an almost ASMR-like soliloquy.