Saturday Night Live Recap: Has Nate Bargatze Cracked the SNL Code?

“I’m as shocked as you are that I’m here,” Nate Bargatze told the audience during his first Saturday Night Live monologue last November. At the time, the host’s lightly self-deprecating banter was probably accurate. Bargatze is a seasoned standup veteran who’s played increasingly larger venues since he began popping up in the mid-2010s, and yet he’s never had a starring sitcom or movie role for the standup-agnostic masses to digest. (His only acting credit so far is from a 2014 episode of Maron.) Still...